Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Tickets

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Venue: Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Venue Directions: Nearest tube station is Covent Garden. Also close to Charing Cross and Embankment. NCP car parking on Drury Lane.
Seating Plan: Theatre Royal Drury Lane

After the success of Matilda the Musical, producers are again turning to beloved children’s author Roald Dahl for the next West End smash-hit. One of his most popular books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will premiere as a new musical at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in summer 2013, with an official opening date of 25 June.

The show tells the story of a young boy, Charlie, who wins a golden ticket to tour the eccentric Willy Wonka’s magical chocolate factory. With some spoilt, gluttonous, and mischievous co-winners in tow, Charlie’s lovable grandfather accompanies him on this adventure through a maze of candy-coated delights, from chocolate rooms to the inventing room, all presided over by Willy Wonka and his staff, the elfin Oompa Loompas. The book has been turned into a film on two occasions, the first being a musical starring Gene Wilder and renamed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, which featured songs such as “The Candy Man Can,” “I Want It Now,” “Pure Imagination,” and the unmistakable “Oompa Loompa.” The book then inspired the 2005 film adaptation directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. Roald Dahl was famously displeased with the 1971 version, and his estate had full artistic control over this new movie, resulting in a darker tone more in keeping with the original book.