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Pure Imagination: 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' Brings Willy Wonka To The Stage

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Noah Weisberg, who stars as the reclusive candy inventor in the Broadway musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
Noah Weisberg as Willy Wonka, with the company of the Broadway musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." (Joan Marcus/Courtesy of the production)

The Broadway musical “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is currently touring the country. It’s based on the much-loved book by Roald Dahl about a little boy who wins a tour of a wondrous chocolate factory run by Willy Wonka, a reclusive candy inventor.

Many people know the story from the 1971 movie “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” starring Gene Wilder — one that , who stars as Wonka in the stage production, says he loved

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