Lisa Hamaker, Growth Director at Springfield Little Theatre, joined us on “Arts Information” to debate SLT’s new manufacturing of the stage model of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” a musical based mostly on Ian Fleming’s novel and the movement image, opening tonight (Friday, January 23) on the Landers Theatre, 311 E. Walnut in Springfield.
We started by noting that there’s all the time a little bit of a disconnect when one sees the names “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” a basic kids’s guide, and Ian Fleming, well-known for his Chilly Conflict-era James Bond spy novels, used collectively. (Fleming apparently wrote the guide