Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Bwaylove
Swing Joined: 10/4/06
#0Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 4:46pmDoes anyone know if the cast on the CD is different than da closing cast?
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#1re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 4:47pm
The cast recording is of the entirely different London cast.
The Broadway cast was never recorded.
#2re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 4:48pmAre you asking if the original (therefore recorded) and closing London casts were the same?
Bwaylove
Swing Joined: 10/4/06
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#4re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 4:49pmyeah, I remember being SOO sad because I thought buying the cd at the theater that is was the OBC (RAUL), but it wasn't, it was london. Micheal Ball's very cool too though :) (thats his name, right? I believe so) But yeah... I would have killed to have raul on the Chitty cd
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#5re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 4:50pmI'm still mad that they didn't record the Broadway cast.
Bwaylove
Swing Joined: 10/4/06
#6re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 4:54pmit would b nice if they did. i really liked the cast. it was cool.
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#7re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 5:12pmDefinitely need to get Erin on more recordings!
jess20882
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/06
#8re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 5:16pm
I'm sad the Broadway cast never made a recording. I would definitely have bought a copy solely for Jan Maxwell and Marc Kudisch! 
Although yes, the rest of the cast was great too...
actor
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/06
#9re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 5:17pm
I wish Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was still on Broadway. I never got to see it. 
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#10re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 5:25pm
^It was AMAZING! I was really lucky and got to see it in previews hehe. The entire cast was just fantastic. And it was my first (and only so far) raul experience.. so.. 
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#11re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 5:29pm
I saw the OLC and it was fantastic. Michael Ball was very good but Emma Williams was fantastic. Even better was Richard O'Brian....completely evil.
Gotta love a flying car.
actor
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/06
#13re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 9:06pm
I wish Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was still on Broadway. I never got to see it.
It was such a great show, too me I really wish it was out longer It is ashame you missed it.
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#15re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 10:06pm
An incredibly expensive show that wasn't getting the family audiences that DIsney was, basically.
It's such a shame, too. It totally pwned the OLC.
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#16re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 10:13pmJan Maxwell was robbed of the Tony that year. Whatever other flaws Chitty had, she was damn near perfect. A brilliant comedic performance.
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#17re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/4/06 at 10:22pm
Oh Jan and Marc...every so often I think of one of their lines and it just always makes me laugh.
Respect the bear.
jess20882
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/06
#19re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/5/06 at 1:10pm
"You're my little choochie-face"...
AHHH they were brilliant...
thedeepend
Chorus Member Joined: 8/25/05
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#21re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/18/06 at 12:13pm
OK, forgive me for asking a dumb question, but was "Kiddy-Widdie-Winkies" written especially for the musical, was it in the 1968 movie and I just don't remember it, or was it written for and cut from the movie and/or soundtrack?
And who do you think was more menacing and scary while singing it: Richard O'Brien or Kevin Cahoon?
algy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#22re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/18/06 at 12:31pm
I can't speak about Kevin Cahoon, having only seen the London production, but Richard O'Brien scared the monkeys out of me.
On the Place That Cannot be Named there is a Chitty trailer with some clips of him on it, and he looks pretty flippy menacing even when not in character!
For me it was the way he struggled and fought his way up through the theatre in the net - I saw Lionel Blair as the Childcatcher, and he just stood in the net and went up, looked like he was scared , but O'Brien screamed and hollered his way up "I know where you live children, I'm going to find you and hunt you down" right over your heads and past the circle and the dress circle etc. Really excellent. And from a guy who was 60 at the time! He got boos at the curtain call from the children and massive cheers from the audience. Blair got polite applause.
#23re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/18/06 at 12:34pm
Kiddy-Widdie-Winkies, as well as Bombi Samba were written for the stage show. The Vulgarian National Anthem is in the film, but instrumental only. I think Fun Fair is original to the stage show, but I'm not sure if an instrumental version was in the film. I think Teamwork was also written for the stage show.
I never saw Kevin Cahoon as the Child Catcher, but of the three actors I saw play the role in London -- Richard O'Brien, Peter Polycarpu, and I can't remember the name of the third actor -- I though O'Brien was the scariest.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#24re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Posted: 10/18/06 at 2:33pm
I can't speak about Kevin Cahoon, having only seen the London production, but Richard O'Brien scared the monkeys out of me.
oh god did kevin give me the heeby jeebees! he was SO FREAKY, in a very good way of course. And of course that made it really wierd for him to come out the stagedoor and be like...one of the sweetest people ever! we were like "but... you're so NICE!" lol
and kevin, to me, sounded very much like richard o'brien on the soundtrack :) I never saw richard live though,so I really cant compare too well
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