Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Watched the musical adaption of the 1968 movie at the Esplanade on 4 Nov with Lin, Lina and Vony. It used to be that a musical was a smash on stage and then gets adapted on screen; now, with the likes of Sunset Boulevard, The Lion King, The Producers and Saturday Night Fever, it's the other way around. There's money to be made and why not? I tried to watch the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie on DVD before the musical, just so to see what it was about, but couldn't get beyond the first third-- it seemed, and I write as one who loves musicals-- somehow tedious, tiresome. But Lin sat through it all. And so it turned out to be a smashing success with her and the girls and all the kids in the theatre! This was the youngest and most responsive audience I've seen in the Esplanade. Many of the children have come in designer wear, courtesy of trendy parents. They clapped, cheered, booed, it was like a pantomine. And there was of course a car that levitated and glided on stage! They loved it! And the 2.5 hours there didn't seemed too bad then. And I thought I had better get used to liking what kids like...

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