He finds a way to purchase the former champion Grand Prix car that his children are enamored with and, using his inventive skills, spiffs it up with some special abilities. Caractacus Potts is a widowed father of two who is down on his luck but trying to make a living from the imaginative inventions he creates. With just a few small changes, the stage script by Jeremey Sams and Ray Roderick follows the film screenplay fairly closely. It's a charming, humorous and magical musical adventure for children young and old. Hale Centre Theatre's production pulls out all the stops, with colorful creative elements, a top-notch cast, and an excellent and imaginative life-size version of the title character that moves, floats, spins, and even takes flight. The 2002 stage musical adaptation expands the score with several other fun Sherman brothers tunes. With the addition of the charming musical song score from Mary Poppins composers Richard and Robert Sherman, the movie musical became a beloved family favorite that tells the story of an eccentric British inventor who retrofits a broken-down Grand Prix winning roadster into a magical, high-flying car.

Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl may be best known for creating the iconic literary characters James Bond and Willy Wonka, respectively, but in 1968 their talents were combined when Dahl co-wrote the screenplay, with director Ken Hughes, for the film adaptation of Fleming's 1964 children's fantasy novel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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