Donovan Returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
by Broadway Staff • Jul 22, 2004
Jason Donovan will return to London's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as Caracatus Potts, the role he played for two months at the beginning of the year. Donovan's latest turn in the role will begin on September 7 and last for six months.
Donovan gained widespread fame when, in the mid-1980s, he took over the role of Scott Robinson in the television serial Neighbours. In 1988 he signed a recording contract with Mushroom Records. His debut album Ten Good Reasons entered the charts at number two and within a week had reached the number one album spot. His duet with Kylie Minogue, "Especially For You," reached number one in the U.K. Charts in January 1989 and became the biggest selling single in Britain for two years. He made his West End debut in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in June 1991, staying with the show for 18 months. In 1996 he returned to the theater to appear in Camelot at the Covent Garden Festival. His subsequent theater credits include Night Must Fall, The Rocky Horror Show and The Fantasticks.
Donovan gained widespread fame when, in the mid-1980s, he took over the role of Scott Robinson in the television serial Neighbours. In 1988 he signed a recording contract with Mushroom Records. His debut album Ten Good Reasons entered the charts at number two and within a week had reached the number one album spot. His duet with Kylie Minogue, "Especially For You," reached number one in the U.K. Charts in January 1989 and became the biggest selling single in Britain for two years. He made his West End debut in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in June 1991, staying with the show for 18 months. In 1996 he returned to the theater to appear in Camelot at the Covent Garden Festival. His subsequent theater credits include Night Must Fall, The Rocky Horror Show and The Fantasticks.
Donovan's co-stars in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which plays at the London Palladium, include Christopher Biggins as Baron Bomburst, Lionel Blair as The Child Catcher and Scarlett Strallen as Truly Scrumptious.