Amateur musical adaptation of the 1968 film, with a score by the Sherman Brothers and a real flying car, by Good Companions Musical Theatre.
Good Companions Musical Theatre are bringing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the Derby Theatre Main House from Wednesday 4 to Sunday 8 November, the first time the show has played there. It's a musical adaptation of the 1968 film, which itself followed Ian Fleming's children's book, and it uses the score by the Sherman Brothers — the same songwriting team behind Mary Poppins.
The story is one you'll likely know: the eccentric inventor Caractacus Pott finds a battered old racing car destined for the scrap heap and restores it with the help of his children, Jeremy and Jemima. Once it's back on the road, they discover it has magical properties — it can float on water and even take flight — and the tyrannical Baron Bomburst becomes determined to possess it. Good Companions are staging it with Martin Counter in the role originally played by Dick Van Dyke, a cast of 75, choreography and a real flying car. They describe it as a family musical about creativity and believing that anything is possible.
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It runs for five days, with performances at 7:00pm, 2:00pm, 1:00pm and 6:00pm across the run, and each show lasts two hours and 30 minutes including an interval. Tickets are £22.50 to £27.50 for standard seats and £20 to £25 for under 16s.
