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Posted: 10/15/05 at 11:36pm
Went to see CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG again, mostly for Jan Maxwell. Can't get enough of her!
Anyways, after the scene with Boris and Goran that comes right before they reveal Chitty, Raul made an announcement that they were having technical difficulties and needed to stop the show. So the house lights come up, we wait for about 5 or 6 minutes and then the shows starts up again.
All is going well, but after the Chitty floating scene, where the Vulgarian drop is supposed to come in downstage, the cra was stuck too far downstage so the drop couldn't come in and the show couldn't continue. The rochestra stopped playing, Raul, Erin and the kids were still in the car in a blackout. After probably a minute and a half, the car backs up, the drop comes in and they do the Baron/Baroness scene.
After that, they make another announcement they they're stil having problems and that intermission will just happen right then. The houselights come up and we go to intermission. Which ended up lasting 45 minutes. I saw several people walk out, but most stayed.
They then do the last scene of act one and Chitty flies just fine even though she appears to be missing her little wing things. Then, once again, they announce that they need a few minutes to change the sets and get ready for the second act. So we have basically have a second intermission which lasts about 10 minutes.
The second act goes fine. Ad lib from Jan Maxwell after she is banished:
Baron: Even though we're banished, we'll still have each other and the toys (or something like that).
Baroness: And hopefully a LOT of overtime.
The expressions on Raul and Erin's faces when Chitty gets her bow at the end and they have to sing that song again were priceless.
All told, the show got out at 10:30 rather than the usual 9:30. Quite an interesting evening.
Anyways, after the scene with Boris and Goran that comes right before they reveal Chitty, Raul made an announcement that they were having technical difficulties and needed to stop the show. So the house lights come up, we wait for about 5 or 6 minutes and then the shows starts up again.
All is going well, but after the Chitty floating scene, where the Vulgarian drop is supposed to come in downstage, the cra was stuck too far downstage so the drop couldn't come in and the show couldn't continue. The rochestra stopped playing, Raul, Erin and the kids were still in the car in a blackout. After probably a minute and a half, the car backs up, the drop comes in and they do the Baron/Baroness scene.
After that, they make another announcement they they're stil having problems and that intermission will just happen right then. The houselights come up and we go to intermission. Which ended up lasting 45 minutes. I saw several people walk out, but most stayed.
They then do the last scene of act one and Chitty flies just fine even though she appears to be missing her little wing things. Then, once again, they announce that they need a few minutes to change the sets and get ready for the second act. So we have basically have a second intermission which lasts about 10 minutes.
The second act goes fine. Ad lib from Jan Maxwell after she is banished:
Baron: Even though we're banished, we'll still have each other and the toys (or something like that).
Baroness: And hopefully a LOT of overtime.
The expressions on Raul and Erin's faces when Chitty gets her bow at the end and they have to sing that song again were priceless.
All told, the show got out at 10:30 rather than the usual 9:30. Quite an interesting evening.
