7/7/2023 0 Comments The chocolate factory album![]() The score of this newly minted show is by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the Tony-winning songwriting duo who made “Hairspray” the most compulsively danceable show to come around this young century. It’s that with so many dab hands involved the material was bound to be born anew. It’s not just that the novel held a greater place in my childhood affections, though it did. Quite frankly, I was prepared to love “Charlie” more. Now “Matilda” for me didn’t quite live up to the transcendent hype promulgated on both sides of the Atlantic. Making matters more invidious, the show pales in comparison to the current Dahl hit drawing crowds in London and New York, “Matilda the Musical.” This innocuous production, which begins with a tongue-in-cheek documentary on the history of chocolate, lacks the tangy originality of “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” the classic 1971 movie starring Gene Wilder as the half-demented candy man spinning sugar into gluttonous fantasy.
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