Ostrum was perfect and beat out many, many other children for the role of Charlie Bucket. His experience on stage gave him an edge. "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (retitled as to highlight ...

Zion Opera Workshop presents “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” during the first weekend of March at the Smith Auditorium, located at Second and Iron streets. Performances are scheduled for Feb. 28, ...

He played Charlie Bucket, the lead role, in 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. He hasn't acted since. Peter Gardner Ostrum was 12 years old when talent agents chose him for the lead ...

What kid wouldn’t love a trip to a chocolate factory? Well, any kid that saw Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, perhaps. Adapted from one of the most-adapted authors ever, the 1971 film ...

Students of Fabius-Pompey Middle/High School will perform Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka,” originally titled “Charlie and the ...

In one hand he grips onto a chocolate bar ... unfettered access to Wonka’s famous chocolate factory and the secrets of his business. This boy, of course, is Charlie Bucket, the hero of Roald ...

The world is astounded when Willy Wonka ... supply of Wonka chocolate. Nobody wants the prize more than young Charlie, but as his family is so poor that buying even one bar of chocolate is ...

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.

Timothée Chalamet is set to play a young Willy Wonka in a prequel ... in their Wonka chocolate bars to visit the factory. One of the lucky few is lovely, sweet Charlie Bucket, who goes on to ...