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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."
    Jan 15, 2019 3 minutes
    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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