The Potts family joins forces with Truly Scrumptious, played by Rebecca Claborn, and Grandpa Potts (Ron Seney) to defeat the Baron and Baroness. They soon discover the car has magical properties, including the ability to float and take flight.īut trouble finds them when the evil Baron Bomburst wants the car for himself. This musical adventure tells the story of Potts, a widower who sets about restoring an old race car from a scrap heap with the help of his children, Jeremy and Jemima - played by Caedmon Wilcox and Ava Bartlett. It’s not a cosplay, you know? You have to build a character, and there are different nuances that the stage show has that the movie doesn’t have.” “You kind of want to do your own version of it,” he said. But he has made sure to put his own spin on the character made famous by Dick Van Dyke. “So if it was too hot outside, or we just wanted to sit inside, we’d put in ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.’” Baker calls playing Potts ‘a little surreal’īaker said it’s a little surreal to be playing this role, going from viewer to actor. “When I was a kid, my grandma had, like, three VHS tapes and one of them was ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,’” he said. “So I started looking at shows that would be up my alley.”Īnd “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” - a musical based on the 1968 film - is definitely up Baker’s alley. “I would come and film here and I’ve always loved this stage, so I kind of got to the point where I wanted to do a show here,” Baker said before a Jan. It will just be his first time with an audience.īaker has gone from filming commercials for Springfield Little Theatre to playing the role of Caractacus Potts in the company’s production of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” which runs Jan. There's family fun on stage and off at Springfield Little Theatre's 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' - Springfield Daily Citizen Closeįriday night won’t be Tom Baker’s first time on the Landers Theatre stage.
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