'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory' musical is due on Broadway next spring

It's official: Willy Wonka will hold court on a New York stage in 2017.

It was confirmed by producers on Thursday that a musical based on Roald Dahl's beloved novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will arrive on Broadway in the spring of 2017. The show features a book by David Greig, with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman, a duo whose many previous credits include Hairspray and Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me.

The musical Charlie was introduced to acclaim on the West End, where it's still running, in 2013, under Sam Mendes' direction. The Broadway staging will be helmed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien — Mendes had cited other commitments previously, but will stay on as a producer — with choreography by Joshua Bergasse.(TV's Smash, last season's Broadway revival of On The Town).

The Broadway staging is also being revised for an American audience. "Since the first production was created for London it's only fair we do an American version," O'Brien said in a statement, citing our connection to the 1971 film adaptation of Charlie starring Gene Wilder as Wonka. New songs are being crafted as well.

Charlie follows another London-based adaptation of a Dahl book, Matilda The Musical, which has run on Broadway for three years.