Audition Announcement
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka
Audition Details and Requirements
Co-Directors Joanna Thornton and Rhys Kennedy seek many talented performers of varying ages for this delightful version of a classic story based on the book Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.
INCLUSIVE CASTING
The creative team is committed to casting practices that advance diversity and inclusion. All ethnicities, genders, and abilities will be considered.
Audition will be cold readings from the script.
Requirements:
Show run Dates: March 21-30
Must be available during March Break
Rehearsals: Sundays and Thursdays starting November 26th.
Please come prepared to sing for us using the following music selections:
The Candy Man (All)
Oompa Loompa Song (Kids)
Pure Imagination (Willy Wonka)
As well as one of these:
Female part:
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- My Favourite Things (sound of Music)
- Til there was you (music man)
- If I ain’t got you ( Alicia Keys)
Male part:
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- Oh what a beautiful morning (Oklahoma)
- Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
- On Broadway (George Benson)
Auditions will be held:
Sunday November 19th at 7 PM, Uxbridge Music Hall – 16 Main Street South, Uxbridge
AND Monday November 20th at 7PM, Uxbridge Music Hall – 16 Main Street South, Uxbridge
To register for an Audition – please email krystynee@yahoo.com
Character Breakdown
Willy Wonka
The mysterious title character. He is charming, enigmatic, charismatic, and slightly sinister. A chocolatier who guides children and their parents on a tour of his factory. He is looking for someone new to take over his candy empire.
Gender: Male/Female
Age: 20 to 50
Candy Man
A local candy vendor. He leads the children in praising the joys of candy.
Gender: Male/Female
Age: 20 to 50
Phineous Trout
A reporter covering the Golden Ticket story. Optional Doubling as WILLY WONKA and/or CANDY MAN.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 50
Charlie Bucket
Our story’s shy, earnest protagonist. From a modest home life, he is humble and noncompetitive while maintaining a sense of wonder about the world. One of the Golden Ticket winners whose honesty and general good nature win Wonka over.
Gender: Male
Age: 12+
Mrs Bucket
Charlie Bucket’s nurturing mother. She is always trying to maintain an energetic positivity.
Gender: Female
Age: 30 to 45
Mr. Bucket
Charlie Bucket’s nurturing father. He is always trying to maintain an energetic positivity.
Gender: Male
Age: 30 to 45
Grandpa Joe
A caring, patient, and kindhearted man. Loving Grandfather to Charlie Bucket. He accompanies Charlie to Willy Wonka’s factory and it gives him a new burst of youthful vigor.
Gender: Male
Age: – To appear 60 to 80
Augustus Gloop
A gluttonous German boy. Cheerful and jolly, he defines himself by his ability to eat mass quantities of food. One of the Golden Ticket winners whose constant overeating is enabled and encouraged by Mrs. Gloop.
Gender: Male
Age: 12+
Mrs Gloop
A plump, jolly German woman with a bustling personality. Augustus Gloop’s overindulgent mother.
Gender: Female
Age: 35 to 45
Veruca Salt
A wealthy, spoiled Brit. She is accustomed to having her father indulge her every whim and desire. One of the Golden Ticket winners, she is subjected to the squirrels’ nut chute.
Gender: Female
Age: 12+
Mr. Salt
A wealthy British upperclassman who regularly flaunts his wealth and privilege. Father to Veruca Salt who shamelessly spoils his daughter.
Gender: Male
Age: 40 to 60
Mike Teavee
An obnoxious, hyperactive child addicted to television, video games, and the internet. One of the Golden Ticket winners and Ms. Teavee’s son.
Gender: Male
Age: 12+
Ms. Teavee
An old-fashioned housewife. She is Mike Teavee’s permissive and clueless mother.
Gender: Female
Age: 35 to 50
Violet Beauregarde
A brassy girl with a competitive streak. Violet seizes every opportunity to show off. She turns into a giant blueberry.
Gender: Female
Age: 9 to 12
Mrs. Beauregarde
Violet’s enthusiastic “helicopter parent” who focuses all her attention on her daughter. She indulges Violet’s worst competitive impulses.
Gender: Female
Age: 35 to 45
Ensemble:
Kids; Cooks; Squirrels; Oompa-Loompas