Christian Borle is going to be very busy next Broadway season.

He will be playing the role of Willy Wonka in the musical adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, set to open in March 2017 in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre (current home of Finding Neverland, which is departing at the end of August). The timing is fortunate, since the other big hit based on a Roald Dahl book, Matilda, is set to close in January 2017. Dahl fans looking for a fix, not to mention family audiences in general, will all gravitate to Charlie.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been running in London’s West End since 2013, though it’s expected to close next January. It has music by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the duo behind Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can, and the TV show Smash (which also starred Christian Borle).

Christian Borle is best known for his two Tony-winning performances in featured roles: Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher (also an adaptation of a children’s book) and William Shakespeare in Something Rotten! (where he is currently starring). But next season, Borle will have not one but two lead roles in musicals. Before he acts in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he will star as Marvin in a revival of Falsettos opening in October. Fans will have about three to four months to see Borle acting alongside such Broadway favorites as Stephanie J. Block (Wicked, Edwin Drood) and Andrew Rannels (Book of Mormon, Hedwig) before he departs for Charlie.

This could put Borle in a position to make history by scoring two Tony nominations in the same year for Best Actor in a Musical, a feat never before achieved. But Borle is clearly a Tony darling, the role of Marvin received a Tony nomination for Michael Rupert in 1992, and the role of Willy Wonka received an Olivier nomination for Douglas Hodge.

The director of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Jack O’Brien, said in a statement, “Christian was the first — and in truth, perhaps the ONLY person I could imagine to create the role of Willy: his combination of child-like fantasy, edge, mystery, and sheer star power seemed destined for this role.”