Photo Coverage: Golden Ticket Holders Win Entry to the CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Opening Night Party!
For those who were lucky enough to land a golden ticket last night, the party continued after the curtain down for opening night of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The new Broadway musical celebrated a Wonkafied opening at Pier 60 and BroadwayWorld is taking you inside the festivities below!
Broadway's Willy Wonka, Two-time Tony Award winner Christian Borle (Willy Wonka) leads a cast of 35 that includes Tony Award winner John Rubinstein as Grandpa Joe (Pippin), Emily Padgett as Mrs. Bucket (Side Show), Kathy Fitzgerald as Mrs. Gloop (9 to 5), F. Michael Haynie as Augustus Gloop (Wicked), Ben Crawford as Mr. Salt (Shrek), Emma Pfaeffle as Veruca Salt (Finding Neverland), Alan H. Green as Mr. Beauregarde (School of Rock), Trista Dollison as Violet Beauregarde (A Bronx Tale), Jackie Hoffman as Mrs. Teavee (On The Town), Michael Wartella as Mike Teavee (Tuck Everlasting) and introducing Jake Ryan Flynn, Ryan Foust and Ryan Sell making their Broadway debuts as Charlie Bucket, with Yesenia Ayala (Broadway Debut), Darius Barnes (Cinderella), Colin Bradbury (Come Fly Away), Jared Bradshaw (Jersey Boys), Ryan Breslin (Newsies), Kristy Cates (Finding Neverland), Madeleine Doherty (The Producers), Paloma Garcia-Lee (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812), Stephanie Gibson (Cinderella), Talya Groves (Motown), Cory Lingner (On The Town), Elliott Mattox (Broadway Debut), Monette McKay (Memphis), Kyle Taylor Parker (Kinky Boots), Paul Slade Smith (Finding Neverland), Katie Webber (Wicked), Stephen Carrasco (Fiddler on the Roof), Robin Masella (Cats), Kristin Piro (An American In Paris), Amy Quanbeck (Broadway Debut), Michael Williams (On The Town), and Mikey Winslow (On The Town).
For more than 50 years, Roald Dahl's story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has captured imaginations around the world, and now for the first time Broadway audiences are invited to experience Willy Wonka's delightful and semi-dark chocolate world first-hand. Willy Wonka, world famous inventor of the Everlasting Gobstopper, has just made an astonishing announcement. His marvelous-and mysterious-factory is opening its gates...to a lucky few. That includes young Charlie Bucket, whose life definitely needs sweetening. He and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a mesmerizing, life-changing journey through Wonka's world of pure imagination. Get ready for exquisitely nutty squirrels and the great glass elevator, all to be revealed by Wonka's army of curious Oompa-Loompas.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Christian Borle

Jack O'Brien

Jackie Hoffman

Emily Padgett

John Rubenstein

Jake Ryan Flynn, Ryan Sell and Ryan Foust

Jake Ryan Flynn, Ryan Sell, Ryan Foust and John Rubenstein

Mike Wartella

Kathy Fitzgerald and F. Michael Haynie

Alan H. Green

Trista Dollison

Andrew Rannells, Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block and Brandon Uranowitz

Andrew Rannells, Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block and Brandon Uranowitz

Kyle Taylor Parker

Paul Slade Smith

Chloe Dahl

Jared Bradshaw and Lindsay Northern

Alison Solomon

Andrew Rannells, Stephanie J. Block and Brandon Uranowitz

Colin Bradbury and Michael Williams

Joey Taranto and Kyle Taylor Parker

Ben Crawford

Emma Pfaffle

Paloma Garcia-Lee

Cory Lingner, Elliott Mattox, Madeleine Doherty and Yesenia Ayala

Stephen Carrasco, Kristin Piro, Robin Masella, Amy Quanbeck, Yesenia Ayala and Mikey Winslow

Stephen Carrasco and Lee Poulin

Monette McKay and Preston W. Dugger

Talya Groves, Monette McKay, Robin Masella, Kristin Piro, Amy Quanbeck, Yesenia Ayala and Paloma Garcia-Lee

Katie Webber, Kristy Cates, Yesenia Ayala, Stephanie Gibson, Monette McKay and Darius Barnes

Darius Barnes and his Mother

Mikey Winslow, Paloma Garcia-Lee and Paul A. Shaefer

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