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Article: THEATRE: REVIEW: A Truly Scrumptious show, indeed CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG Palladium London
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2002
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Here's a musical that gives a whole new meaning to the term "star
vehicle". Leaving those old showbiz crocks Genevieve and the Yellow
Rolls- Royce sulking in their garages, the upwardly mobile Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang is a car that needs to be not just roadworthy, but
skyworthy. Filmic special effects pulled that off in the 1969 movie.
This much-anticipated new stage version is therefore duty-bound to
create an equivalent (ideally, greater) frisson with before-your-
very-eyes stage magic.
I'm delighted to report that, in terms of theatrical aerodynamics
and sheer entertainment value, the pounds 9m show at the London