New Chitty Tour 09/10

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#1 mjr

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Posted 11 July 2009 - 12:02 AM

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone has caught up with the new chitty tour. I have heard there is a new car and design as well as a new opening sequence. Can anyone shed some light on this???

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Posted 11 July 2009 - 01:25 PM

.This is a review from the critic of Herald and express Torbay

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jonpaul hedge

Johnpaul hedge is usually spot on.

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Posted 11 July 2009 - 06:55 PM

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#4 Aranel

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Posted 12 July 2009 - 02:51 PM

As the article states, the guy playing Caractacus was suffering a bit for opening night.
He had already pulled out of shows on Saturday and Monday and the understudy, Mark Peachey, went on without any prior rehearsals!! Apparently he did a fantastic job - cant have been easy that early on in the run!!

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Posted 12 July 2009 - 04:26 PM

QUOTE(Aranel @ Jul 12 2009, 02:51 PM)

As someone who knows Darren Bennett and has seen him perform numerous times since I saw him as Rum Tum Tugger in Cats then he must have been pretty ill to pull out of the shows he did. Darren isn't someone who misses shows for the sake and the fact he went on on opening night despite still being ill speaks volumes about him.

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#6 power-ranger

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Posted 12 July 2009 - 08:25 PM

Does anyone have a cast list for the Chitty Tour?? I can't find it on the website.

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#7 Joan-E

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Posted 12 July 2009 - 08:50 PM

QUOTE(power-ranger @ Jul 12 2009, 09:25 PM)

Does anyone have a cast list for the Chitty Tour?? I can't find it on the website.

Absolutely agree about Darren Bennet......I'm sure he'll be a fabulous Potts when he's 100% again.

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Posted 13 July 2009 - 05:49 PM

The cast (from what I can glean) seems a bit low key doesn't it? I'm all for solid performers over celebrities but with a tour on this scale one would expect at least one real box office name?

Sebastian

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Posted 14 July 2009 - 10:17 AM

saw it on opening night...very disappointed in this production, set wobbled and not much spark in the production...a huge stand out was rachel stanley playing truley...a true shinng star!!! pity the rest didnt match up to her...dont kill yourself to see this ....

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Posted 14 July 2009 - 10:55 PM

i saw the show tonight & loved it....obviously its on a much smaller scale to the london one i saw a few years ago but its still very good

although i loved all the cast apart from Rachel Stanley as Truly, she was extremely weak although i thought she got better in the 2nd half.