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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Shows · Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Impoverished young Charlie Bucket finds one of five Golden Tickets hidden in Wonka chocolate bars, winning a tour of the mysterious and magnificent chocolate factory run by the eccentric genius Willy Wonka. As the other four children are eliminated one by one through their own greed, gluttony, and bad behavior, humble Charlie proves himself worthy of Wonka's greatest prize of all.

Opened
2017
Performances
305
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: Marc ShaimanLyrics: Marc Shaiman & Scott WittmanBook: David Greig

Productions3 on Broadway

2010 Transfer Theatre not recorded. June 3, 2010 · predates this show
2013 Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show
2017 Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. April 23, 2017 · Jack O'Brien 305 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.

In the literature3 passages

She even turned down the chance—and the money—to star in the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to do it. book:b007l4owcu-ebok-peter-filichia#p301

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. book:the-mikado-to-matilda-british-musicals-on-the-new-york-thomas-s-hischak-rowman-l#p88

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. book:the-musical-a-concise-history-second-edition-ga-nzl-kurt-findlay-jamie-2-2022010#p464

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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