Veteran director Corey Disotell has reached back into his own childhood memories to reacquaint a new generation with the Seaway Valley Theatre Company’s (SVTC) latest children’s production. Article content

“For me, I’m not much of a reader — I’m a big movie guy, and I remember seeing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory when I was younger, with Gene Wilder, and it always stuck with me because the music was amazing, and it was very colourful and fun,” Disotell recalled before a round of rehearsals on Nov. 16 in the cafetorium at Cornwall and Collegiate Vocational School. Article content Article content

“So, when looking at a kids’ show to do, and I saw that Willy Wonka Jr. was an opportunity, I got to do it,” he said.

While Disotell was influenced by the early 1970s’ adaptation of Ro

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