Character Breakdown:
**All ethnicities and genders welcome to apply for all roles**
Willy Wonka
The sly, charming star of the show. Lithe, eccentric. His larger than life persona can go from charming and comical, to magically mysterious and dark.
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Charlie Bucket
Sweet, smart, hopeful and loving. A boy with wonderful innocence and vulnerability.
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: G#3
Grandpa Joe
Impish. He is 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.
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: G#2
Mrs. Bucket
Charlie's warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving.
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Grandma Josephine
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Grandma Georgina
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Ab3
Grandpa George
Vocal range top: E4
Vocal range bottom: F2
Mrs. Gloop
Augustus's German, moronic, Wagnerian mother. Mirthlessly smiles as though it were affixed to the front of her face.
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Augustus Gloop
Rampantly over-active.
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
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Mr. Salt
Veruca's goofy, eccentric, distracted, hilarious father. Finds it impossible to say no, giving in to every ridiculous demand his daughter makes.
Vocal range top: Ab4
Vocal range bottom: Ab2
Veruca Salt
Vicious and determined.
Vocal range top: Db5
Vocal range bottom: Ab4
Mr. Beauregarde
Violet's ineffectual father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter.
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: F#3
Violet Beauregarde
Confident, forward, and full of attitude.
Vocal range top: F#5
Vocal range bottom: C#4
Mike Teavee
A fireplug with a ridiculous amount of energy.
Vocal range top: Bb4
Vocal range bottom: G3
Mrs. Teavee
She needs amphetamines to get through the day and deal with her outrageous son. Tense, extreme, and hilarious.
Vocal range top: Eb5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Mrs. Green
Jerry
Cherry
Ensemble