Move over Nestle’s and Hersheys. The most imaginative and intriguing chocolate candy is coming to town, to the Hartford’s Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. From Tuesday, February 19 to Sunday, February 24, you’re invited to lick your lips and take a big bite from Roald Dahl’s delightfully devilish “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” that has been melted and reformed into a musical adventure, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
Charlie Bucket has known poverty his whole short life, existing on cabbage soup as he lives on the tales his grandparents tell him about an amazing man named Willy Wonka who owns a chocolate factory. Charlie’s experience with chocolate is confined to the one bar he gets once a year on his birthday.
The news that Willie Wonka is holding a big contest where five lucky participants will find a Golden Ticket in a Wonka bar makes Charlie excited. One by one, the Golden Tickets are discovered: by an overweight boy from Bavaria called Augustus Gloop, a spoiled British girl named Veruca Salt, a gum-smacking Violet Beauregarde from Hollywood and finally a bully who is addicted to television, Mike Teavee. Who will find the last Golden Ticket?
When Charlie finds coins dropped by a wealthy couple,
he gets the last chance at the prize, a lifetime supply of candy. His grandfather, who has spent decades in bed, leaps up to take Charlie to the famous factory. One by one, the contestants encounter major problems causing them to lose their chance of winning. Adventures exist at every turn and twist until only Charlie remains. What will Grandpa Joe and Charlie discover? How will they survive a ride in the Great Glass Elevator? What is the real prize that Willy Wonka has in mind for the ultimate winner of the game?
For tickets, golden or otherwise, ($23-119), call the Bushnell, 166 Capitol Avenue, Hartford at 860-987-5900 or online at www.bushnell.org. Performances areTuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Come indulge and delight your imagination with a colorful tour with the Oompa-Loompas, experience invention heaven, take a joyride in the amazing Great Glass Elevator and help Charlie achieve the most delicious dream come true ever.
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