A YOUNG actor has landed a prime role in a stage version of a children’s classic.
Ten-year-old Scott McDonald will play the lead boy Jeremy in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang which opens at Bradford Alhambra next month.
Scott, of Fixby, has been a member of Oscar’s College of Performance Arts in Fitzwilliam Street, Huddersfield, for the past three years.
He had to queue for five hours to audition for the role at the end of last year along with hundreds of other young hopefuls.
He was then shortlisted before winning the role.
Oscar’s administrator Paul Knutzen said: “This is Scott’s first big role and we are delighted. He has a bright future ahead of him.”
The 1968 feature film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, was based on Ian Fleming’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car.
It starred Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts and Sally Ann Howes as Truly Scrumptious.
The film was directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R Broccoli, best known as co-producer of the James Bond series of films, also based on Fleming's novels.
The stage version, which has been running for more than three years, opens at Bradford on February 11 and runs until April 5.
