Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 
| Artist: Original London Cast
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 57024
Format: Original Recording Reissued
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 97763
UPC: 827969776322
EAN: 0827969776322
ASIN: B000BGR0Q0
Release Date: November 8, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Oveture - Orchestra | | • | Opening (The Paragon Panther Versus the Vulgarian Vulture) | | • | You Two - Michael Ball, Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies | | • | Them Three - Anton Rodgers | | • | Toot Sweets - Michael Ball, , David Henry, Emma Williams | | • | Think Vulgar! - David Ross, Emil Wolk | | • | Hushabye Mountain - Michael Ball | | • | Come to the Funfair | | • | Me Ol' Bamboo - Michael Ball, | | • | Posh - Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies, Anton Rodgers | | • | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Michael Ball, Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies, Emma Williams | | • | Truly Scrumptious - Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies, Emma Williams | | • | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Nautical Reprise) - Michael Ball, Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies, Emma Williams | | • | Chitty Takes Flight [Finale to Act One] | | • | Vulgarian National Anthem | | • | Roses of Success - Anton Rodgers | | • | Kiddie-Widdie-Winkies - Richard O'Brien | | • | Teamwork - Michael Ball, , Edward Petherbridge, Emma Williams | | • | Chu-Chu Face - Brian Blessed, Nichola McAuliffe | | • | Bombie Samba - Brian Blessed, , Nichola McAuliffe | | • | Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious (Reprise) - Michael Ball, Emma Williams | | • | You Two/Chitty Prayer - Carrie Fletcher, George Gillies | | • | Chitty Flies Home (Finale) | | • | Video |
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Album Description
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!
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 altogether a fine cast album December 26, 2006
Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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]
London Cast - Not Quite American October 24, 2007
L. Brown (Los Angeles)
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 January 9, 2007
Barbi Lee (Minnetonka Mn)
This remake is crisper, and slightly different than the original, but I still like the original better.
 A beautiful soundtrack . . . July 26, 2005
Antoinette M. Falk MD (St. Petersburg, FL)
. . . but if you've seen the show recently, only know that the charming song "Speak English!" is not on it, but instead the original "Think Vulgar!" A disappointment, to be sure, but not a deterrant.
 Absolutely Terrible November 12, 2006
J. A. Munson (The Midwest USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
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