Alex Jennings on Scaring Children (But Not Too Much) in London's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Alex Jennings won a 2003 Olivier Award for playing Henry Higgins in the Trevor Nunn-directed revival of My Fair Lady, and the protean actor is now back at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in an altogether different sort of show. He recently stepped into Douglas Hodge’s shoes as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Sam Mendes-helmed musical now in its second year. How does a talent whose previous r…