Christian Borle Is The Willy Wonka We Deserve 

and an even better singing voice

Yes! He should read audiobooks

I would love to know what it's like to work with him in a show, that's all i want to do

yeah ❤

erin camp Just remember he's psychotic... ;)

He looks damn good but he's cheep as dirt......(hes not) (but he looks good;;))

stop telling yourself these lies

@@kerk9795Even psychotics can charm - which he does so beware

And just be careful

I knew that about Stephen's father and brother, but I didn't make the connection :'-(

I kind of cringed when he said that - Stephen's talked about the death of his father and brothers quite a few times over the years so I figured it was pretty well known, but I guess he didn't realise.

I guess I missed it; which line?

from 3:06

Christian's father also passed away a while ago... so...

Tay Tay god help and forgive me

JEJDJDJRJFHRU

Tay Tay HAHAHAHAHAHQH

Tay Tay I love you

i giggled hard

And it's hot, right?

erin camp believe me when i say i died ten timeS-

Yesss that Falsettos revival was stunning!

Lucky you!! I would loved to have seen it. I read that they filmed and are going to be showing it on PBS at some point. I definitely need to keep an eye out for that. It's not the same as seeing it looks live, but it's much better than not seeing it at all.

Yes, I believe it's set to air in the fall and I am so grateful that it was preserved for all to see!! I was so thrilled to see him get Tony nominated for the role, completely deserved! My favourite performance of the season.

Chantel Carter um actually his name is Emmet Forest

Emily Cucci I loveeeee him in legally blonde 💓

little miSs wOOdS COMmA eLLE

"Emmett Forest, please make me the happiest woman I know!" "Oh my, oh my, omigod!"

Ughgh.. The room just got colder😩

They should remake Twins with him and Stephen, they wouldnt have to change their clothes.

Call up Wicked

from the looks of it he would be a great humpty dumpty as well

Do you enjoy ruining people's lives?

PleaseEnterAName we need friends to cry together

It's an amazing musical where everyone is happy and nobody dies

*flashbacks to whizzer's death* what hAVE YOU DONE

Lol

Jane S legally blond yes!!!!!

falsettos though

y-es...

Have you ever read the original Grimm's fairytales? Or Howard Pyle's Robin Hood? Or even good old Mother Goose? This stuff is TAME compared to what used to be considered suitable for children...

i just wanna know how they ripped a girl into shreds on stage also, *all* the kids seriously died?

@@lily-cr4tn There are various "slime tutorials" of the Broadway version - especially of that scene since "one of the bad kids gets ripped apart onstage" was heavily mentioned in reviews of the show at the time and everyone wanted to see if the scene was as bad/scary as people were saying. Basically they have a big song-and-dance number with some giant squirrels and towards the end, the actress playing Veruca runs up this conveyor belt at the back of the stage and is offstage for about 2 seconds. During that time, the actress gets swapped out for a dummy. At the very end of the song, the squirrels' eyes start glowing red, they drag "Veruca" back down the conveyor belt and...well, just as the lyrics of the song talk about "ripping her limb from limb", the squirrels basically do exactly that to the dummy. Including pulling off the head. As for the other kids, according to some reviews you could apparently clearly see Augustus' head going up the pipe after he falls into the chocolate river but no body underneath it which...yeah, Violet exploded as the OP says, and I'm pretty sure Mike didn't actually die but his mother was actually happy that he gets shrunk and decided to just keep him that way rather than having him stretched out like in the original story. Like, I know everyone likes to joke about Willy Wonka being a serial killer but the Broadway version is the only one that actually went there. And considering the whole thing was marketed as generally being a "kids show" (even more than the original and ultimately much less dark West End version was), it was a...very weird creative choice, to put it mildly.

BUROSIDAT STOP MENTIONING MEATING HIM sorry i have wanted to meet him so long. Today mean girls at school braged that they met him

Do you have dysczlektia?

Yea, escpecially when it Christian Borle and not Christian Bale...

I can't tell if the replies to this comment are sarcastic. Read the comment again. It's a joke

Andrew Kohler SAME

I mean, he might not have known, I didn't until I read the comments.

Thank god it's not just me 😂 Christian is better looking tho

I was watching this with my friend and he said the same thing 😂😂😂

I cant unseen it. What have you done.

Bianca Castafiore ...im sorry what are you talking about?...do I just not get the joke?...

existential. anarchist I WOULD WATCH THE FUCKING HELL OUT OF THAT SHIT

Does Shakespeare count?

vox hazbin hotel !!

JBoyd suddenly? okay

Wilder was always everyone's favorite. Depp was absolutely AWFUL as Willy Wonka. If it wasn't for Wilder, the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory would've completely bombed, and you wouldn't have any remakes or Broadway shows. Instead, Wilder was soooo amazingly good, that the movie became an instant classic.

Plus hes a meme :D is Depp a meme? Well, yes, but not as Wonka. So NO!

I thought it was pretty funny.

If you have to say "I'm just kidding", something went wrong :D

Schneckinator 500 I’m a year late but he says a kitty lmao

Twitch · truer words have never been spoken

Twitch · But then there's always that quote by Gene Wilder: "There's no knowing where we're going..."

New experiences may never be able to top nostalgia, that's for sure. But I got to see this show a couple weeks ago, and Borle was pretty amazing. Gene Wilder did a Wonka that was subtle and perfect for film, and Borle added a lot of the enthusiasm from book Wonka, which easily commanded attention on the stage. I saw it in previews, and I'm curious what'll end up changing before everything is finalized.

Twitch -- You may well be right about Gene (I loved him, and will forever), but a chance to see Christian B. in a show should not be missed. A great performer and actor.

Agreed. But CB is pretty damn cool. For a Broadway performer, he is real as f