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His larger than life persona can go from charming and comical, to magically mysterious and dark. Any ethnicity.
Charlie's imaginative, fun, kind and loving grandfather. After many years being confined to a bed, his childish energy returns when Charlie finds the Golden Ticket. Any ethnicity.
Sweet, smart, hopeful and loving. A child with wonderful innocence and vulnerability. Open to any gender or identity. Any ethnicity.
Charlie's warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving. Any ethnicity.
Excellent singer and comic actor but rampantly over-active. Speaks with a German accent. Any ethnicity.
Augustus's German, moronic mother. Mirthlessly smiles as though it were affixed to the front of her face. Must be able to yodel. Any ethnicity.
Very funny with a character singing/screaming voice. Vicious and good at manipulation - sweet, strong and scary. Speaks with a Russian accent. Must be able to dance ballet (pointe preferred). Any ethnicity.
Veruca's goofy, eccentric, distracted, hilarious father. Finds it impossible to say no, giving in to every ridiculous demand his daughter makes. Excellent comic actor with a baritone singing voice. Veruca’s Russian father. Speaks with Russian accent. Any ethnicity.
Confident, forward, and full of attitude. Pop voice and great hip-hop dance skills. Confident and full of attitude. Any ethnicity.
Violet's ineffectual father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter. Soul/Pop/R&B voice. Beat-boxing skills a plus. Any ethnicity.
A loud wild-child with a ridiculous amount of energy. The epitome of entitlement and self-proclaimed superiority. Powerful and terrifying. A voice that cuts through steel. Any ethnicity.
She needs amphetamines to get through the day and deal with her outrageous son. Tense, extreme, and hilarious. Any ethnicity.
GRANDMA GEORGINA
Elderly, bedridden Grandmother with featured lines and songs. Any ethnicity.
*PLEASE BE PREPARED TO SING YOUR VOICE PART OF THE ENSEMBLE NUTCRACKER SUITE*
GRANDPA GEORGE
Elderly, bedridden Grandfather with featured lines and songs. Any ethnicity.
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Elderly, bedridden Grandmother with featured lines and songs. Any ethnicity.
*PLEASE BE PREPARED TO SING YOUR VOICE PART OF THE ENSEMBLE NUTCRACKER SUITE*
High energy, goofy reporter. Can have an accent. Any ethnicity.
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High energy, goofy reporter. Can have an accent. Any ethnicity.Â
*PLEASE BE PREPARED TO SING YOUR VOICE PART OF THE ENSEMBLE NUTCRACKER SUITE*
MRS. GREEN
Kind hearted, vendor who sells chocolate on the street. Any ethnicity.
*PLEASE BE PREPARED TO SING YOUR VOICE PART OF THE ENSEMBLE NUTCRACKER SUITE*
ENSEMBLE/OOMPA LOOMPAS
Including, but not limited to, Oompa-Loompas, news reporters, and squirrels, backup dancers, etc. Must be extremely strong dancers, big personalities, comic skills and excellent singers with versatile, characterful voices of all ranges and types. Any ethnicity.
Suddenly before us stands Willy Wonka, the world-renowned candy maker and inventor of the Everlasting Gobstopper ("The Candy Man') - a genius who believes he is a forgotten man. Wonka transforms himself into the world-weary owner of a candy shop who makes the acquaintance of young Charlie Bucket, who idolizes Willy Wonka. When the shop owner tells Charlie that Wonka is about to make a comeback, the boy is thrilled but exasperated that the shop owner does not seem to know just who Willy Wonka is ("Willy Wonka! Willy Wonka!"). Charlie comes from a poor, fatherless family that scrounges for food, and he lives for his birthday each year when he receives as a gift a single Willy Wonka Chocolate Bar. The shop owner tells him that Willy Wonka is going to open the mysteries of his chocolate factory - but only to the five lucky possessors of a golden ticket to be found in a Wonka Bar. Back home, Charlie learns that times are so hard for his family that he will not get his birthday Wonka Bar this year - so no chance at the golden ticket. Of the four eccentric grandparents who live in the house - in fact, in the same bad - Grandpa Joe is Charlie's kindred spirit ("Charlie, You & I"), urging him on. Charlie decides to write a letter to Willy Wonka ("A Letter from Charlie Bucket"), in which he expresses his wonder and admiration (as well as some ideas) for the candy maker.
The news break that the first winner of a golden ticket is a food-loving German boy ("More of Him to Love"), adored by his mother and named Augustus Gloop. The second ("When Veruca Says") is Veruca Salt, the spoiled-rotten daughter of a Russian oligarch. The winner of the third ticket ("The Queen of Pop") is Violet Beauregarde, whose publicity hound of a father is turning her pursuit of a world record for chewing gum into a media event. The fourth ticket ("What Could Possibly Go Wrong?") goes to Mike Teavee, a brat who is mesmerized by social media, to the delight of his mother. Charlie appears to be out of luck, leaving his mother and grandparents wistful for what she is unable to provide ("If Your Father Were Here"), when fate intervenes. He finds some money on the ground and buys a Wonka bar from Mrs. Green's cart and discovers a golden ticket, making him the fifth winner. Charlie and his whole family celebrate the news ("I've Got a Golden Ticket" / "Grandpa Joe") that he is headed to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, where Grandpa Joe will join him. At long last, Willy Wonka welcomes the winners into his factory, teasing them about what lies ahead for them ("It Must Be Believed to Be Seen").
Inside the factory, Wonka introduces the winners to the wonders they are about to encounter - and some things they need to remember ("Strike That, Reverse It"). Charlie and Grandpa Joe are in awe of Wonka and what the magical experience has to offer ("Pure Imagination"/ "Grandpa Joe (Reprise)"), while the other children are greedy and impatient. One by one, the ticket holders become victims of their own appetites. Augustus Gloop's insatiable hunger for the chocolate waterfall makes him the first victim ("The Oompa Loompa Song" / "Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop"), his fate determined by the mysterious Oompa Loompas who do Wonka's bidding. Wonka explains to his guests how he freed the Oompa Loompas and they became his allies ("When Willy Met Oompa"). His warnings fall on deaf ears. Violet is then the next golden ticket holder to vanish followed by Veruca ("Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet"), and finally Mike Teavee ("Vidiots"). Ultimately, there is only Charlie, in whom Willy Wonka sees an heir to his magical mission. He welcomes Charlie into a magical glass elevator that takes them up, up, up, so the boy can see everything that will be his ("The View from Here") - a happy home and limitless future, thanks to the Candy Man.
Overture
The Candy Man
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka
Charlie, You and I
A Letter from Charlie Bucket
More of Him to Love
When Veruca Says
The Queen of Pop
That Little Man of Mine
If Your Father Were Here
I've Got a Golden Ticket
It Must Be Believed to Be Seen
Strike That, Reverse It
Pure Imagination / Grandpa Joe (Reprise)
The Oompa Loompa Song / Auf Wiedersehen
You Got Whatcha Want
Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet
Vidiots
That Little Man of Mine Reprise
The View from Here