Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2017

The run closed January 14, 2018

Opened

April 23, 2017

Closed

January 14, 2018

Performances

305

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 77th 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
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

9 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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.

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.

Recordings 3 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

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.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 3 recordings of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.