Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Um, I also was very fortunate to play Annie as well in the play version a few years later.

But I've played the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Um, I've played...

Who else have I played? Edith in 'Allo 'Allo.

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Baron in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang UK tour, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar West End, Amos in Chicago international tour, Lion, The Wizard of Oz West End, Arbiter in Chess UK, Apu in Joseph UK tour, and Ashton in the 1999 film, among many, many others that I'm still, I know I'm leaving out.

He also apparently was on Portugal's Got Talent, in case you gotta get more extreme than that.

And yeah, great to have you on today.

I love it there.

I really truly do.

I, I did the whole tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, um, we had Mondays off.

Mm-hmm.

She covered Sophie in the original West End cast of Mamma Mia and went on to play roles such as Eponine and Fontaine in Les Miserables.

Sandy in Grease, Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins, Clara in The Light in the Piazza and Lily and Kate in Kiss Me Kate.

The list goes on.

Caroline starred as Violet in 9 to 5.

And that was a small show for me, like 20-something.

And then the next year I went to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at 43.

Yeah,

that was a good classic when I was a kid.

The car, they swore, those kids on the way home from the show, they swore that car flew, was flying.

They were so ingrained in it.

That they, you know, the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car was actually flying.

They swore.

[laughs]

Grown adults on stage singing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with colored flags.

Mm.

You think that's icky, do you? Well-

And it's pure bias.

It's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I would love for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to come to Singapore.

Mm.

I think it's a, it's a, it's a beautiful family musical, so again, talking about, you know, trying to attract more people into the theater, I think it's, it's one that is so family-friendly.

It's one of my first memories of a movie.

Mm-hmm.

The Wizard of Oz and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, one of my first memories of movies, and it was also the first musical I saw as an adult.

So I saw Mary Poppins when it sort of premiered.

Uh, you know, I was there sort of within the first couple of months because it coincided with my birthday month and then, uh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, uh, and, uh, What were the other ones? Billy Elliot.

There was a string of very iconic musicals in the early 2000s, I guess, which I just got to see by nature of it being my birthday and me being in London.

And I think the one specific moment...

And I never necessarily wanted to be an actor, but back then I didn't really understand any roles apart from who I could see.

I think when the car flew in at the end of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I just...

I was probably about 13 and I...

And I just remember thinking, I want to be involved with that.

Her theatre credits are vast.

and include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang the national tour Mona in Chicago and we've got the Balbeck Festival Beirut and the understudy and played as well Maria in West Side Story she's also been in Cats as well in Hollywood and on Broadway and also been in Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella.

Throughout her performing career Lucy has always maintained her passion for teaching.

She has given classes and workshops at many of the country's leading schools and colleges including the Italia Conti Academy, Mountview Academy, Dance for All, the Liverpool Academy of Performing Arts, She is proud and excited to bring her love of performance and learning to every individual at Dance Shack, which we're going to be talking about today because that is one of the franchise opportunities advertised on the Investing Women job board.

I was still in America.

And so we just thought, let's try a dance track.

So I was doing actually, you know, I was doing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when we first started it.

And I was still doing eight shows a week.

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[chuckles] That's peppy Chitty Bang Bang.

Racine Theatre Guild.

Mm-hmm

... will be sharing on Sunday at the 50 Years on Northwestern event, and some of the highlights of your October production.