Complete with flying car, the Children’s Theatre of Long Beach is staging “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” at the Ernest Borgnine Theatre beginning Feb. 21. Based on the 1968 film with Dick Van Dyke, the musical tells of the unexpected adventures of an English inventor, his two children and one amazing vehicle.
Director Mark Lamanna said in a Stage Explorations interview that he wanted to bring out the warmth and caring of the story’s “nontraditional” family. Inventor Caractacus Potts is a widower raising children Jeremy and Jemima with their grandfather, though they soon meet a woman named Truly Scrumptious when she nearly runs over the kids in her car.
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