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List Price: $17.99 | | Label: Mr. Bang Bang Records
Salesrank: 233913
Released: January 1, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Original London Cast Recording) Track Listing:
1. Oveture - Orchestra
2. Opening (The Paragon Panther Versus the Vulgarian Vulture)
3. You Two - Michael Ball, Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies
4. Them Three - Anton Rodgers
5. Toot Sweets - Michael Ball, , David Henry, Emma Williams
6. Think Vulgar! - David Ross, Emil Wolk
7. Hushabye Mountain - Michael Ball
8. Come to the Funfair
9. Me Ol' Bamboo - Michael Ball,
10. Posh - Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies, Anton Rodgers
11. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Michael Ball, Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies, Emma Williams
12. Truly Scrumptious - Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies, Emma Williams
13. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Nautical Reprise) - Michael Ball, Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies, Emma Williams
14. Chitty Takes Flight [Finale to Act One]
15. Vulgarian National Anthem
16. Roses of Success - Anton Rodgers
17. Kiddie-Widdie-Winkies - Richard O'Brien
18. Teamwork - Michael Ball, , Edward Petherbridge, Emma Williams
19. Chu-Chu Face - Brian Blessed, Nichola McAuliffe
20. Bombie Samba - Brian Blessed, , Nichola McAuliffe
21. Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious (Reprise) - Michael Ball, Emma Williams
22. You Two/Chitty Prayer - Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies
23. Chitty Flies Home (Finale)
24. Video
Editorial Review:
Opening on Broadway in the Summer of 2005. Originating from the 1968 novel by Roald Dahl, this is a truly magical musical following the adventures of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a revolutionary, all sailing, all flying machine created from an old neglected car by an eccentric Professor. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a classic of our time and one that never fails to delight. Original London Cast. Mr Bang Bang label. The Main artists are, Michael Ball, whose extensive fanbase are being targeted with details of this album, Anton Rodgers ,Brian Blessed, Nichola McAuliffe and Richard O'Brien. The CD contains a CDROM element, which gives details of the Making Of The ProductionNow open on Broadway where the musical is a great success. * No US release is scheduled!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Original London Cast Recording) Reviews:
London Cast - Not Quite American 
2007-10-24 - At the risk of not being Politically Correct, the London cast, while not bad, is simply not as good as the American cast. It's that simple.
A remake of the original movie
2007-01-09 - This remake is crisper, and slightly different than the original, but I still like the original better.
altogether a fine cast album
2006-12-26 - CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, the cheerfully-mindless musical by the Sherman Brothers, was mounted for the West End stage in 2002, opened at the London Palladium and enjoyed a run of nearly three and-a-half years (the subsequent Broadway production fared less well). The Sherman Brothers score sparks either rapture or revulsion depending on whom you ask, but the musical does offer some quaint charms.
The stage version of CHITTY operates almost like a glorified pantomime, the story remains the same but the score has been re-jigged and altered. In this cast album of the original 2002 London Palladium cast, Michael Ball adds his own special touch to the eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts, with newcomer Emma Williams as Truly Scrumptious. Ball is at his best with the plaintive lullaby of "Hushabye Mountain". Emma Williams doesn't get all that much to warble as Truly (her big movie number "Lovely Lonely Man" was mercilessly cut from the stage score), however Williams has a charming way with "Doll on a Music Box".
Brian Blessed and Nichola McAuliffe push the 'camp' gear into overdrive with their performances as Vulgaria's hideous Baron and Baroness ("Bombie Samba", one of the additions to the stage score, has to be heard to be believed). Richard O'Brien of ROCKY HORROR fame plays the equally-odious Child Catcher with yet another bland addition, "Kiddy-Widdy-Winkies". Carrie Fletcher and George Gillies play Jeremy and Jemima. Stage veteran Anton Rodgers is wonderful as Grandpa Potts.
Happily though, all the best movie songs ("Me Ol' Bamboo", "Toot Sweets", "Posh", "The Roses of Success" and the Oscar-nominated title song) are all here, making the new additions to the score even more inferior by their presence.
[Sony Music/Chitty Records MRBB001]
Absolutely Terrible 
2006-11-12 - Sickly, effeminate broadway adaptations of the movie soundtrack. The rendition of Hushabye Mountain is... it makes me sick thinking about it. Don't purchase if your looking for anything remotely similar to the original movie soundtrack. When in a rush, I mistakenly purchased thinking it was the original.
Chitty Chitty Blah Blah 
2006-01-26 - WOW!! I have no clue what is happeneing to broadway? What is with the boring show of this year like, Little Women, The Light in the Piazza, The woman in White and this crap, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Now just from the title this show should be a romping, roaring, good-time musical. Instead we get half-assed atempts at being cute which in turn are syrupy enough to keep New York in pancakes FOR-EV-ER! The sappy-ness goes way overboard when the KIDS, sing "Truly Scrumptious" to , you guessed it! Truly Scrumptious.
Other AWFUL songs include:
You Two
Them Three
Toot Sweets
Think Vulgar!
Hushabye Mountain
Come to the Funfair
Me Ol' Bamboo
Posh
Vulgarian National Anthem
The Roses of Success
Kiddie-Widdie-Winkies
Teamwork
Chu-Chu Face
The Bombie Samba
Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumtious (Reprise)
You Two/Chitty Prayer
Chitty Flies Home
The only good song in the entire show is the title one and it came from the original movie, As did some of the others but you would never be able to tell because they are done so badly.
PLEASE SAVE YOU MONEY AND GET A GOOD MUSICAL FROM LONDON'S WEST END LIKE
MARY POPPINS OR ALMOST ANY THING FROM ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER.
OR SOME GOOD ONES FROM BROADWAY LIKE
SPAMALOT
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOULDRELS
THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
AVENUE Q
WICKED
HAIRSPRAY...ANYTHING!!!
