Tootling merrily into town with a bang on a twelve day flying visit, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang winged its way into Nottingham's Theatre Royal, turning heads with a melodious sugar-rush helluva ride.
With Toot Sweets ingeniously on sale in the foyer and starring the cherubically-curly, sweet-like-chocolate-voiced Lee Mead plus Cindy and Barry outta EastEnders as the evil CHILL-drrren hating Baron and Baroness Bomburst, this stage production takes on a different visual style and slightly later era than the film version, with a motor-biking Truly Scrumptious, violet and purple coloured costume schemes plus added girl dancers also showing what they can do with an ol' bamboo.
It's a successfully super-fun high-energy show, from the imaginative wrap-around projections with Dad's Army style animations to the crackpot inventions to the cracker performances by the show-nicking delightfully naughty comedian spies Boris and Goran to the father-of-all-childhood nightmares, the malevolently cloak-whirling ultra-villain Child Catcher. Carrie Hope Fletcher is a charming and exquisitely-voiced Truly Scrumptious blending into delicious musical concoctions with Lee Mead's endearingly-paternal Caractacus Potts in Doll On A Music Box, whilst a lacklustre Chu-Chi Face is acquitted by a boomingly, bloomingly brilliant Roses Of Success commandingly led by Andy Hockley as a top-notch Grandpa Potts, yes siree.
An incredible, edible sweetie of a show, confidentially, we recommend you fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumper night - with mouthfuls of cheers.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is at Nottingham Theatre Royal until May 29. Full details can be found on the Theatre Royal website here
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