Casting has been announced for the 2016-17 UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which opens at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton on 10th February 2016 (tour dates below).
Caractacus Potts will be played by Jason Manford (The Producers/ Sweeney Todd) from 10th February until 24th April. He will return to the show from 5th October 2016.
Lee Mead (Any Dream Will Do/Legally Blonde) will play Caractacus Potts from 4th May until 18th September 2016.
Martin Kemp (EastEnders/Spandau Ballet) will play the Childcatcher and Amy Griffiths (Everyman/Stephen Ward) will play Truly Scrumptious, both until 24th April 2016.
The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cast also includes Phill Jupitus (The Producers/Hairspray) as Lord Scrumptious/Baron Bomburst until 24th April 2016, Michelle Collins (EastEnders/Coronation Street) as Baroness Bomburst and Andy Hockley (The Phantom Of The Opera) as Grandpa Potts.
Ewen Cummins plays The Toymaker/Mr Coggins, with Sam Harrison as Boris and Scott Paige as Goran.
Completing the cast are: Kathryn Barnes, Rosanna Bates, Alex Louize Bird, Abigail Climer, Jade Davies, Matt Gillett, Ewan Gillies, Joanna Goodwin, Nathan Vaughan Harris, Christopher D Hunt, Paul Iveson, Nia Jermin, Kelsie-Rae Marshall, Mollie Melia-Redgrave, Perry O’Dea, Matt Overfield, Ross Russell, Craig Turner and Robert Wilkes.
The show will run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse this Christmas starring Jon Robyns as Caractacus Potts, Amy Griffiths as Truly Scrumptious, Don Gallagher as Lord Scrumptious/Baron Bomburst, Tamsin Carroll as Baroness Bomburst, Stephen Matthews as The Childcatcher and Andy Hockley as Grandpa Potts.
Stephen Mear will choreograph the new production with direction from James Brining and design by Simon Higlett.
2016 Tour Dates
10–21 February
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
24 February – 13 March
Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin
16 – 27 March
Grand Opera House, Belfast
30 March – 9 April
Regent Theatre, Stoke
13 – 24 April
Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
4 – 14 May
Milton Keynes Theatre
18 – 29 May
Nottingham Theatre Royal
1 – 12 June
Theatre Royal, Newcastle
29 June – 17 July
Sheffield Lyceum
20 – 30 July
New Wimbledon Theatre
3 – 21 August
Wales Millennium Centre
24 August – 3 September
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
7 – 18 September
Birmingham Hippodrome
21 September – 2 October
Royal & Derngate, Northampton
5 – 16 October
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
19 – 29 October
King’s Theatre, Glasgow
9 – 19 November
New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Thank you for the news l8vely to see Lee back on stage
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