They buy tickets from us online, and then they resell them at a higher cost.” SLT has discovered that if a prospective customer simply enters “Springfield Little Theatre" in their search engine of choice, “our show will pop up, but that will be a Ticketmaster or one of the other ticketing companies. Hamaker added a note of caution to persons ordering tickets online: be sure you go to to order tickets at LT’s regular $25 to $37 prices. So there are plenty of opportunities to see the production. The final weekend, February 9-12, the show runs Thursday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., with matinees both Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. Saturday the 4 th at 2 p.m only (remember, no evening performance on the 4 th) and Sunday the 5 th at 2 p.m. The following week, performances are Thursday and Friday, February 2 nd and 3 rd at 7:30 p.m. There is a performance Saturday afternoon the 28 th at 2 p.m., but it’s all sold out to the production’s sponsor, Positronic.Īs Hamaker explained, “they actually bring all of their people and all of their employees’ families, and they come for a special performance, which will be tomorrow (afternoon).” The Saturday-evening show tomorrow night at 7:30 is a public performance. “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” opens tonight (Friday, January 27) at 7:30 p.m. And then the last Saturday, February 11, we will have both a matinee and an evening performance.” “There may have been a conflict with some of the leads pre-existing, but then you'll have a whole other week to come see the show. “I'm not exactly sure why that is,” Hamaker admitted. Unusually for Little Theatre, there will be no Saturday-evening show on February 4, just a 2 p.m. There's just so much happening in the show and the flying car, and what Jamie Bower and Chuck Rogers are able to do to create so much magic. You know, honestly, this is a great show to bring kids to, even if it's like a first time for a kid, probably (ages) three, four and up. We have to have lots of children for the Child Catcher to menace. ![]() And I really I'm excited for a lot of the kiddos that are in this show. ![]() We also have Truly Scrumptious, Rebecca Claborn, on stage. Dean Price, one of our veteran actors, is back as the Baron and I can't wait to see him on stage. ![]() (The music and lyrics are by Richard and Robert Sherman, with a book by Jeremy Sams.) “The music is fabulous,” Hamaker continued. The Child Catcher scene was always one of those… (Lisa made some scary sounds here to illustrate the effect it had on her as a child). Then there’s the movie - it is so much fun. Hamaker immediately established how much fun the story is. (Fleming apparently wrote the book for his son, and was inspired by a series of British race cars utilizing aircraft engines.) We began by noting that there’s always a bit of a disconnect when one sees the names “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” a classic children’s book, and Ian Fleming, famous for his Cold War-era James Bond spy novels, used together. Lisa Hamaker, Development Director at Springfield Little Theatre, joined us on “Arts News” to discuss SLT’s new production of the stage version of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” a musical based on Ian Fleming’s novel and the motion picture, opening tonight (Friday, January 23) at the Landers Theatre, 311 E.
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