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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cast revealed

West Yorkshire Playhouse have announced casting for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, opening on 2nd December 2015 for a nine-week season finishing on 30 January 2016.

Jon Robyns (Memphis, Spamalot, Avenue Q) will play Caractacus Potts, with Amy Griffiths (Everyman, Stephen Ward, The Pajama Game) as Truly Scrumptious. The musical will also feature Don Gallagher as Lord Scrumptious/Baron Bomburst, Tamsin Carroll as Baroness Bomburst, Stephen Matthews as The Childcatcher and Andy Hockley as Grandpa Potts.

Ewen Cummins plays The Toymaker/Mr Coggins, with Sam Harrison as Boris and Scott Paige as Goran, and Kathryn Barnes, Rosanna Bates, Alex Louize Bird, Abigail Climer, Jade Davies, Matt Gillett, Ewan Gillies, Joanna Goodwin Christopher D Hunt, Paul Iveson, Nia Jermin, Kelsie-Rae Marshall, Mollie Melia-Redgrave, Perry O’Dea, Matt Overfield, Ross Russell, Craig Turner and Robert Wilkes.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has music and lyrics by Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman, who were also responsible for Mary Poppins, The Slipper and the Rose, The Aristocats and The Jungle Book. The Sherman Brothers have won two Academy Awards with a further nine nominations, two Grammy Awards and they have received 21 gold and platinum albums.

The show will be directed by West Yorkshire Playhouse Artistic Director James Brining, with new choreography by Stephen Mear. There will be a live orchestra with Musical Supervision by Stephen Ridley. Production design is by Simon Higlett, lighting design by Tim Mitchell, sound design by Ben Harrison and video design by Simon Wainwright.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is at West Yorkshire Playhouse from 2nd December 2015 to 30th January 2016. Book online at wyp.org.uk or call the Box office on 0113 213 7700.

Samuel Payne
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Reviewer of Theatre in the North, including releases of classic film and television.

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