Roald Dahl’s scrumptiously inventive world is coming to life on stage as CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY makes its Manila premiere at The Theatre at Solaire in Manila from July 8 to July 26, 2026. Broadway International Group and Broadway Asia, in association with HY Culture Fund, Doug Meyer, AMA Group, GMG Productions, UnionBank of the Philippines, Bergamot Front Row Fund, and Willette Klausner invite audiences of all ages, including fans of the book and movies, to step inside an immersive theatrical world of pure imagination.
Following a sold-out run at Shanghai Culture Square in November 2025 and wildly enthusiastic reviews from audiences, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, the Broadway Musical, has announced that theatre fans can enjoy early ticket access through UnionBank of the Philippines from January 12 – 15, 2026 at ticketworld.com.ph. GMG Productions will also have a special waitlist for early seating access before tickets go on public sale, and the early waitlist is now open at https://www.gmg-productions.com/ until January 14, 11:59pm Philippine Time. Tickets will go on sale for the general public at TicketWorld on January 17, 2026. Follow GMG Productions (gmg.productions) on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok for the latest announcements about Manila tickets, and @charlieglobaltour on Instagram for show and international tour updates.
Based on Roald Dahl’s globally beloved novel, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY follows young Charlie Bucket’s golden-ticket adventure into the mysterious and magical world of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. From chocolate rivers to nut-sorting squirrels and mischievous Oompa-Loompas, the musical dazzles with eye-popping visuals, larger-than-life characters, immersive delight for the audience, and toe-tapping music. The musical features iconic songs from the classic 1971 film, including “Pure Imagination,” “The Candy Man,” and “I’ve Got a Golden Ticket,” along with original music by Grammy® and Tony Award® winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Mary Poppins Returns).
“Roald Dahl’s CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is a dazzling fantasy for everyone from everywhere. This new production features miraculous special effects and cutting edge hologauze 3D technology based on advanced magic principles. We are so excited to share the breathtaking world of this beloved Broadway musical about the power of imagination, and the art of invention with Manila audiences in this spectacular new immersive production from an all-Broadway creative team!” Simone Genatt and Marc Routh, Producers and Co-Owners of Broadway International Group and Broadway Asia said in a joint statement.
Transforming Willy Wonka’s fantastical factory into a world where the impossible feels possible, renowned Las Vegas magic and illusion designer Tim Clothier joins the Broadway team and says, “Willy Wonka is the king of imagination, and being able to design new stage wizardry for that character is a dream come true.”
The Broadway production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiered in 2017 running for over 300 performances, followed by a four year North American tour through 2022. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory also ran on London’s West End where the production received two Olivier Awards. This Global Tour is scheduled to tour for 2 to 3 years in Asia, the Middle East and India in leading cities around the world including Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan, Taipei, and Seoul.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY features music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, book by David Greig, based on the novel by Roald Dahl. Songs from the Motion Picture by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Including original direction by four-time Tony Award® winning director Jack O’Brien, and original choreography by Joshua Bergasse, the global tour features Direction by Matt Lenz, Choreography by Alison Solomon, and Musical Supervision by Nate Patten and Greg Jarrett as well as an award-winning Broadway creative, design, and production team. Mark Thompson, set and costume design; Christine Peters, tour scenic design; Jeff Sugg, projections design; Rory Beaton, lighting design; Mike Thacker for Orbital Sound, sound design; Basil Twist, puppet design; and Tim Clothier, illusions. Orchestrations by Doug Besterman, and Musical Arrangements by Marc Shaiman. Casting is by Paul Hardt Casting. Joseph Longthorne serves as General Manager and Tayn Yeo as Associate Manager for Broadway Asia International. GMG serves as Manila General Manager.
Simone Genatt, Marc Routh, Broadway International Group, and Broadway Asia are Producing, along with Co-Producers HY Culture Company, Doug Meyer Productions, Bergamot Front Row Fund and Willette Klausner. CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY is presented in special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI), and Broadway Asia Company. For more information, please visit www.broadwayasia.com
About Broadway International Group and Broadway Asia (Producer) Broadway International Group and Broadway Asia Company are among the largest production, management, and distribution companies of live entertainment throughout the global markets with focus in New York, London, North America, Europe and Asia. Its founders, Simone Genatt and Marc Routh, are two of the most active commercial Broadway and West End producers.
Over the last 25 years, theatrical productions by the Broadway International Group partners have performed in over 60 countries and garnered over 56 Tony, Olivier, Grammy Awards and many other global theatrical accolades through its many collaborations. Select live entertainment productions and attractions include: The Sound of Music, World’s Greatest Lover Edinburgh 2025, An American in Paris, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, The Producers, Hairspray, Amelie, Legally Blonde, Little Shop of Horrors, The Great Comet, Mamma Mia the Party!, Immersive Great Gatsby, Immersive Doctor Who, Neverland, the Peter Pan Immersive, Stomp, COOKIN/NANTA, Shear Madness, Murder Ballad, Tape Face, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, The Jonathan Larson Project Off Broadway, Jay Chou’s THE SECRET, China Goes Pop, Cinderella, West Side Story, 42nd Street, Back to the Future, The Addams Family, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The King and I, Rock of Ages, ICE AGE LIVE: A Mammoth Adventure, SpongeBob SquarePants Live, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Madagascar Live, Fuerzabruta and many others. Select forthcoming productions and attractions include: the global tour of Becoming Marilyn Monroe Interactive Exhibition, STARMANIA, and World’s Greatest Lover London.
About Jack O’Brien (Original Broadway Director)
Jack O’Brien has won three Tony Awards for his direction of Hairspray, Henry IV, and The Coast of Utopia. His other recent Broadway credits include Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, Carousel, The Front Page, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, It’s Only a Play, Macbeth, The Nance, Dead Accounts, Catch Me If You Can, Impressionism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nom.), Imaginary Friends, The Invention of Love (Tony nomination and Drama Desk winner),The Full Monty (Tony nom.), More to Love, Getting Away with Murder, The Little Foxes, Damn Yankees, Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nom.) and Porgy and Bess (Tony nom.).Off- Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem, Pride’s Crossing, and Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award).
Other productions include Il Trittico at the Metropolitan Opera, Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall, Much Ado About Nothing for The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park, Love Never Dies and Hairspray (Olivier nom.) in London, which saw a revival at the Coliseum in London last summer. Mr. O’Brien was the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre from 1981 till 2007. He has directed six programs for PBS’s American Playhouse. His book, Jack Be Nimble, is published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux and his next volume, Jack in the Box: or, How to Goddamn Direct, will also be published by FSG.
About Matt Lenz (Director)
Matt Lenz is a New York-based director whose 30+ year career encompasses work on Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours, regional theater, and international productions. Broadway credits include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can, The Velocity of Autumn (Associate Director on original productions), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Resident Director). Off-Broadway: Pageant: The Musical (Drama Desk nomination), The Irish Curse (Soho Playhouse), Idaho! (NYMF), The Great Daisy Theory, Fingers and Toes (NYMF), and Alan Ball’s The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy. National Tours: A Christmas Story: The Musical, Cheers Live Onstage, Catch Me If You Can, and Hairspray.
Lenz also directed productions of Hairspray in South Africa; U.K.; Toronto; Las Vegas; and Germany. Regional: numerous plays and musicals at Paper Mill Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, St. Louis MUNY, Ogunquit Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theater, Zach Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, Casa Manana, Gateway Playhouse, Short North Stage, Forestburgh Playhouse, and Stamford Center for the Arts. Lenz is a member of SDC and a teaching artist with the Broadway Dreams Foundation.
About Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman is an award-winning lyricist, composer, orchestrator and performer, who has successfully created music and lyrics for TV, films, recordings, and theater since entering show business at the age of 16 in 1976. Shaiman has been Oscar-nominated seven times (for Mary Poppins Returns, Sleepless In Seattle, Patch Adams, The First Wives Club, The American President, and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut). He has received three Tony Award nominations (winning one for co-writing the score to Hairspray with co-lyricist Scott Wittman), eight Grammy Award nominations (winning two for The Original Cast Recordings of Hairspray and Some Like It Hot), twelve Emmy Award nominations (winning two, for his work on Billy Crystal’s Academy Award hosting and for co-writing, with Wittman and Pasek & Paul, “Which Of The Pickwick Triplets Did It?” for “Only Murders In The Building”), two Golden Globe nominations (for the song The Star, co-written with Mariah Carey) and his score for Mary Poppins Returns), and two BAFTA nominations (for Sleepless In Seattle and Mary Poppins Returns). Shaiman’s other film work includes Beaches, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, City Slickers, The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, A Few Good Men, Sister Act (1 & 2), George of the Jungle, In and Out, Hocus Pocus (1 & 2), The Bucket List, Parental Guidance, and Bros.
He served as an Executive Producer of the successful film adaptation of his Broadway musical Hairspray. The original musicals he has co-written for Broadway and The West End are Hairspray (Tony and Olivier Award winner for Best Musical), the Tony-nominated Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, the Tony-winning Catch Me If You Can, the Olivier Award-winning Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, and most recently, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Some Like It Hot. The most award-winning musical of last season, Some Like It Hot is currently on tour in North American. Next up is the Broadway version of “Smash,” the television show for which Marc & Scott were nominated for two Emmy Awards. Other Broadway credits are composing incidental music for revivals of The Odd Couple (with Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick) and Plaza Suite (starring Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick).
Broadway concert credits are “Peter Allen: Up In One,” Bette Midler’s “Divine Madness,” Ellie Greenwich’s “Leader Of The Pack,” and “Patti LuPone On Broadway.” Shaiman has co-produced and arranged award-winning recordings for music icons such as Bette Midler, Harry Connick Jr., and Mariah Carey, including the Grammy-winning recordings “The Wind Beneath My Wings” and “From A Distance.” His television ventures include “The Sweeney Sisters” on SNL, countless award and talk show appearances with Billy Crystal, Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Lane, and Martin Short, Jenifer Lewis’ “Jackie’s Back,” the Emmy-winning “SNL 40th,” the aforementioned “Smash” and “Rogers: The Musical” for “Marvel’s Hawkeye,” the Rob Reiner-directed HBO documentary “Albert Brooks: Defending My Life,” “The Kennedy Center Honors,” where he arranged and performed in tribute to his friend Billy Crystal, and the aforementioned song “Which Of The Pickwick Triplets Did It?” which Steve Martin performed on “Only Murders In The Building.” But his most cherished achievement for television is his collaboration with Bette Midler for her Emmy-winning appearance as Johnny Carson’s final guest on The Tonight Show. Other performers with whom he has collaborated in concert, cabaret, film, and television include Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Kristin Chenoweth, Eric Clapton, Christine Ebersole, Kathy Griffin, Allison Janney, Jennifer Holliday, Jennifer Hudson, Diane Keaton, Steve Martin, John Mayer, Audra McDonald, Barbra Streisand, Queen Latifah, Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, and… Robert De Niro! At the legendary after-party for “SNL 40th,” he jammed with Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, and Prince and completely lost his mind. In 2014, Shaiman & Wittman were celebrated by the New York Pops with a spectacular concert at Carnegie Hall. Marc was recently honored with the Ambassador Award by the Society of Composers and Lyricists in December 2018, the Icon Award at the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in February 2019, and an Outstanding Career Achievement Award from The Hollywood Music in Media Awards.
About Scott Wittman
Tony, Emmy, two-time Grammy, and Olivier Award-winning lyricist, director, writer, and conceiver, Scott Wittman co-wrote the lyrics for the hit musical Hairspray (Tony, Grammy, Olivier Award winner) with creative partner Marc Shaiman. Wittman also served as an executive producer on the hit film starring John Travolta. Scott was nominated for a Golden Globe, Grammy, and two Emmy Awards for the original songs on NBC’s musical drama “Smash.” While working on the show, he co-wrote songs for
Jennifer Hudson, Uma Thurman, Bernadette Peters, and Liza Minnelli. Shaiman and Wittman’s original score for the Marilyn Monroe musical Bombshell was released by Sony Records. Scott’s Broadway credits include Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, which he also directed, Catch Me If You Can (Tony nom. for Best Musical), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway and the West End and Some Like it Hot (13 Tony nominations). Scott has created and directed two Broadway shows, and four sold-out Carnegie Hall concerts for Patti LuPone. He has created and directed solo shows for Christine Ebersole and Nathan Lane, as well as writing for Bette Midler’s 2015 Divine Intervention World Tour. Off-Broadway, he conceived and directed Jukebox Jackie starring Justin Vivian Bond, Bridget Everett, and Cole Escola at LaMama, also, Rockbottom with Bridget Everett at The Public Theatre. Scott also co-wrote the score to Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns starring Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Meryl Streep. Directed by Rob Marshall. The song, “The Place Were Lost Things Go” was nominated for an Oscar. He recently joined the Marvel Universe with his song cowritten with Marc Shaiman for Rodgers: The Musical in “Hawkeye.” Also, for “Only Murders in the Building,” he co-wrote “The Pickwick Triplets” for Steve Martin which recently won an Emmy. The notorious and legendary Downtown shows he directed are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
About David Greig
David is a playwright. His plays include The Events, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Monster in the Hall, Midsummer, Dunsinane, Yellow Moon, Damascus, Outlying Islands, The American Pilot, San Diego, Pyrenees, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message, Dr, Korczcak’s Example, The Architect and Europe. David’s adaptation’s include The Suppliant Women, The Father, The Lorax, Lanark, Creditors, and Caligula. In 1990, he co-founded Suspect Culture Theatre Co., for whom he wrote Timeless, Mainstream & 8000M. Since 2016, David has been the Artistic Director of The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.
About Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was a British author of popular children’s literature and short stories, a poet, and a screenwriter. His books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. He has been called “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century”.
Dahl’s short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children’s books for their unsentimental, macabre, often darkly comic mood, featuring villainous adult enemies of the child characters. His children’s books champion the kindhearted and feature an underlying warm sentiment. His works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits, George’s Marvellous Medicine and Danny, the Champion of the World. His works for older audiences include the short story collections Tales of the Unexpected and The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.
ABOUT GMG PRODUCTIONS
GMG Productions (GMGP), headquartered in Manila, is recognized globally as a leading name in the Asia Pacific’s theatrical landscape. With a legacy spanning over 15
years, the GMGP team has consistently elevated Manila’s entertainment scene, presenting iconic productions such as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS, Royal Shakespeare Company’s MATILDA the Musical, and The Phantom of the Opera alongside crowd-favorite productions like The Sound of Music, We Will Rock You in Manila and Singapore, and an Australian/ New Zealand tour of Madagascar the Musical.
GMGP, staying true to their commitment to bringing world-class theatrical experiences to the Filipino audience, made history by hosting the Asian Premiere of the Tony®, Grammy®, Olivier, and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, HAMILTON, in Manila, and served as the local presenter of Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Miss Saigon and the Tony® award winner, SIX the Musical. With a diverse portfolio and partnerships with Broadway and West End giants, GMGP remains a driving force in the world of live entertainment. Most recently, GMGP mounted its first-ever Filipino-led production of Come From Away, welcomed the international tour of the award-winning Dear Evan Hansen, and presented large-scale exhibitions such as The FRIENDS Experience and Brickman Wonders of the World. This 2026, GMG Productions is set to host LES MISÉRABLES: WORLD TOUR SPECTACULAR and Jesus Christ Superstar. Follow GMG Productions at @gmg.productions.
