We know and love the movie, and were wondering how it would play off as a theatrical production. Happily, the play was 'fantasmagorical,' to borrow a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang adjective.
Here is what CJ has to say about the play ...
The Seattle Children's Theatre is, according to their website, "one of the most prominent theaters for young audiences in the United States and the world." We went to Seattle Center, where SCT was, to see their performance of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, based off the movie of the same name. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a story about an eccentric inventor named Caractus Potts in England in the early 20th century, and a broken-down car he buys to renovate. In the story, set in 1910, Caractus' children are playing in an old, broken-down car that won a grand prix three times, but is now in a junkyard. Two men wish to buy the car, but the children convince their father to spend 30 shillings on the car. Caractus has to invent a new device, one that will give you an instant haircut (read: give you a bald spot). Caractus plans to use this machine at the fun fair and buy the car using the profits he gets from it. One special thing about the Seattle Children's Theatre's version of the play is that Callan, one of my friends at school, was performing in the Youth Ensemble.
The Seattle Children’s Theatre is presenting a play called “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” The play was inspired by the movie of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by a book. The movie follows the story of the Potts family, where the two children, Jemima and Jeremy, are playing in their favorite car, a broken down one from the local mechanic shop. But someone from town offers to buy the car for scrap. The children beg their dad to buy it and fix it. After buying it, their dad decided to fix it up. After the car is fixed, it turns out that it has the ability to float and fly. The Vulgarians see the magical car and they begin to try and steal it for the Baron’s birthday. They end up kidnapping who they think is the inventor, to build the Baron a car. But they kidnap the wrong person, Mr. Potts' father, and so then the Potts family has to save him. The play was very fun, and the choreography was spectacular. The sets also looked very expensive and well made. The play was very good overall, and I would recommend it to anyone, whether they’ve seen the movie or not.
BEFORE THE BIRDS: For whatever reason, Christian and I were both wide awake at 4 a.m. today. Instead of fighting it, we both set our days in motion, up long before the sun.
Different strokes!
Other kitchen projects today included whipping up a raspberry topped cheesecake with a gingersnap crust, and making some "Texas roadhouse" style yeast rolls. The Chex was mixed last night, and tomorrow it's turkey time (along with some potatoes and gravy, of course).
Gobble, gobble!
EINSTEIN CENTENNIAL: On this day in 1915, Albert Einstein submitted his final paper on general relativity. Today, we celebrated that iconic scientific achievement by watching a video narrated by Brian Greene, an American theoretical physicist, about the anniversary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEj9xNEoBxI&index=1&list=PLKy-B3Qf_RDXd_eWdQGcqivi6LbNAJKrS
It's kind of fun to think about cranberry sauce and General Relativity at the same time. Maybe something in cranberries will spark someone to a breakthrough to a Unified Field Theory some day.
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