For a musical that centers around candy and sweets, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is 'neither terrific nor terrible, merely bland,' DarylHMiller writes.
Willy Wonka rolls out a bit of paperwork as he leads prizewinners into his plant in the national tour of"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
How disappointing, then, to open the shiny packaging of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” on tour — now at the Hollywood Pantages for three weeks and headed to Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa later this spring — to discover that the product inside is neither terrific nor terrible, merely bland. The novel teaches a powerful lesson about haves and have-nots. The central character, Charlie Bucket, is from a family so desperately poor that they are on the brink of starvation when the boy discovers one of the tickets. But the household is loving and dependable, and it has instilled in Charlie a pure soul and a lively imagination, whereas the other four children have become spoiled dolts.
The set is outfitted with a giant video panel framed by more video panels, enabling visuals — designed by Jeff Sugg — as subtle as falling snow or as flashy as music-video-like backgrounds for the kids’ introductory numbers. Once inside the factory, the panels convey its lavish but disorienting environment.
Charlie Bucket, the story's young hero, has grown up in a desperately poor but loving family. Foreground right are Amanda Rose as Charlie's mother, James Young as Grandpa Joe and Rueby Wood as Charlie.
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