The run closed January 14, 2018
- Opened
- April 23, 2017
- Closed
- January 14, 2018
- Performances
- 305
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 78th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 2 more that season
| 2010 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2013 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it26 named
Trista Dollison
Alan H Green
Emily Padgett
Emma Pfaeffle
Michael Wartella
Darius Barnes
Colin Bradbury
Jared Bradshaw
Ryan Breslin
Kristy Cates
Madeleine Doherty
Paloma Garcia Lee
Stephanie Gibson
Talya Groves
Cory Lingner
Monette Mckay
Kyle Taylor Parker
Paul Slade Smith
8 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters19 roles recorded
Christian Borle Willy Wonka
Jake Ryan Flynn Ryan Foust Ryan Sell Charlie Bucket
John Rubinstein Grandpa Joe
Emily Padgett Mrs. Bucket
Kathy Fitzgerald Mrs. Gloop
Ben Crawford Mr. Salt
Alan H. Green Mr./Mrs. Beauregarde
Jackie Hoffman Mrs. Teavee
F. Michael Haynie Augustus Gloop
Emma Sofia Veruca Salt
Trista Dollison Violet Beauregarde
Michael Wartella Mike Teavee
Kristy Cates Grandma Josephine
Paul Slade Smith Grandpa George
Madeleine Doherty Grandma Georgina
Ryan Breslin Mr. Bucket
Kyle Taylor Parker Mrs. Green
Jared Bradshaw Jerry
Stephanie Gibson Cherry
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Jack O'Brien
- Choreographer
- Joshua Bergasse
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a musical based on the 1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Directed by Sam Mendes, the musical premiered in the West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in June 2013 and ran for 3 years and 7 months before closing on 7 January 2017. In 2013 the production broke the record for weekly ticket sales in London. While receiving mixed reviews from critics, the show won two Laurence Olivier Awards in 2014 for Best Costume Design and Best Lighting Design. The show was reworked for a Broadway production opening in April 2017 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and ran almost nine mon…
- She even turned down the chance—and the money—to star in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to do it. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 301
- The first of Roald Dahl’s many books to reach the screen, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory took fifty years to become a stage musical. The Mikado To Matilda British Musicals On the New York Thomas S Hischak Rowman L, p. 88
- Shaiman and Wittman had subsequent successes with Catch Me If You Can (2009) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2017), but Hairspray remains their most perfect creation. The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 464
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.