Baroness Bomburst

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Tony nominated actors, Marc Kudisch and Jan Maxwell who played the parts of Baron Bomburst and Baroness Bomburst respectively, in the New York (Broadway) production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 2005.

Baroness Bomburst is a fictional character and one of the antagonists in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in the later stage musical adaptation. The character was created by screenwriter Roald Dahl and did not appear in the original Ian Fleming novel.

In the 1968 film, she is played by Anna Quayle. In the theatrical version in London, she was played by Nichola Mcauliffe, and on Broadway, she was played by Jan Maxwell.

She rules over the land of Vulgaria alongside her husband Baron Bomburst and is notable for her eccentric sense of dress, which is different and increasingly lavish (not to say unusual) in each scene. Her most loyal servant is the Child Catcher, because she despises all children, which is why the townspeople have to hide all of their children, or else the Child Catcher would take them away.

One of the running gags in the film is the Baron's numerous (failed) attempts to kill his wife.

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