Love Your City Theater Presents
charlie and the chocolate factory
Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com Music by Marc Shaiman, Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, Book by David Greig.
Directed by: Kelsey Korman
Musical Direction by: Miles McCavit
Stage Management by: Elizabeth Jimenez
Orchestra Conducted by: Rod Rooker
Artistic Direction by: Tawnya Lee
Love Your City Theater is excited to announce auditions for our upcoming production of
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious factory…but only to a lucky few. Young Charlie Bucket and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka’s world of pure imagination including chocolate waterfalls, nutty squirrels and the great glass elevator, all to be revealed by Wonka's army of curious Oompa-Loompas. Welcome to the world of pure imagination with this tasty Broadway and West End musical based on the famous novel and hit movie.
important dates
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Auditions: Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18 (by appointment)
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Callbacks: Sunday, April 19 (By invitation only)
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Show Dates: Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27
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Cast List Posted: By April 27 on social media and loveyourcitytheater.com
location
All auditions and rehearsals are held at:
Trinity Church
1231 E. Pleasant Run Rd.
Cedar Hill, TX 75104
in the Children’s Center
audition information
ELIGIBILITY & AGE REQUIREMENTS
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Target Age: All roles except Charlie Bucket 16+.
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Age for the role of Charlie Bucket: age 10-16 years. All other children roles will be played by adults 16+
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Youth Participation: For younger actors, LYCT offers Camp Broadway. Registration opens April 13. Registration link on loveyourcitytheater.com website.
REHEARSAL EXPECTATIONS
Rehearsals begin Saturday, May 9th. Actors must attend "as needed" based on their specific scenes or musical numbers.
Standard Schedule:
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Mondays, Tuesdays, & Thursdays: 6:30pm – 9:30pm
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Saturdays: 9:30am – 2:30pm
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Tech Week: June 21-25.
AUDITION STRUCTURE
Please arrive a few minutes early. The audition will consist of the following:
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Dramatic/Speaking: Select and perform provided character sides. Memorization is not strictly required but is highly recommended.
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Vocal: Prepare 16–32 bars (approx. 1 minute) of a song in the style of the show. Please bring your own track on a phone; live accompaniment may not be provided.
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Movement/Dance: Typically held during callbacks.
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Video Auditions: If you cannot attend in person, submit a video following the structure above to info@loveyourcitytheater.com by April 17.
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
Please note that the only child who will be cast in this production is Charlie Bucket. The other child roles will be played by adults 16+. We would love to invite your children under 16 to join us at Camp Broadway!
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. Nearing retirement age.
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Gender: male
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Vocal range top: G4; Vocal range bottom: A2
Charlie Bucket
Sweet, smart, hopeful and loving. A boy with wonderful innocence and vulnerability.
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Gender: male. Age 12-16.
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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.
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Gender: male
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Vocal range top: G4; Vocal range bottom: G#2
Mrs. Bucket
Charlie's warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving.
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Gender: female
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Vocal range top: E5; Vocal range bottom: G3
Grandma Josephine
Charlie’s bedridden grandmother.
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Gender: female
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Vocal range top: D5; Vocal range bottom: C4
Grandma Georgina
Charlie’s other bedridden grandma.
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Gender: female
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Vocal range top: E5; Vocal range bottom: Ab3
Grandpa George
Charlie’s bed-ridden grandfather. Hard of hearing.
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Gender: male
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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. German accent a plus.
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Gender: female
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Vocal range top: D5; Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Augustus Gloop
Gluttonous boy, always eager to stuff his face. German accent a plus.
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Gender: male
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Vocal range top: G5; Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Mr. Salt
Veruca's goofy, eccentric, distracted, hilarious father. Finds it impossible to say no, giving in to every ridiculous demand his daughter makes. Russian accent a plus.
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Gender: male
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Vocal range top: Ab4; Vocal range bottom: Ab2
Veruca Salt
Vicious and determined. Russian accent and ballet experience a plus.
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Gender: female
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Vocal range top: Db5; Vocal range bottom: Ab4
Mr. Beauregarde
Violet's ineffectual father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter.
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Gender: male
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Vocal range top: G4; Vocal range bottom: F#3
Violet Beauregarde
Confident, forward, and full of attitude. Hip hop dance experience a plus.
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Gender: female
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Vocal range top: F#5; Vocal range bottom: C#4
Mike Teavee
A fireplug with a ridiculous amount of energy.
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Gender: male
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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.
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Gender: female
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Vocal range top: Eb5; Vocal range bottom: G3
Ensemble
Singers and dancers who portray the Oompa Loompas, Reporters, Townspeople, Candy Kids, and Factory Workers.
CHARACTER SIDES
Side 1: Charlie and Grandpa Joe
Context: After returning home to the quiet family shack, Charlie wakes Grandpa Joe to show him a discarded Wonka candy wrapper and convince him to play a forbidden game of make-believe.
CHARLIE: (Quietly) I’m home! Grandpa Joe?
GRANDPA JOE: Mr. Crockett! Duck!
CHARLIE: Grandpa Joe, it’s me!
GRANDPA JOE: Oh! Charlie! I thought I was back at the Alamo.
CHARLIE: You were dreaming!
GRANDPA JOE: Dreaming? Me? No! Never. I was resting my eyes. I was wide awake! Like a coiled spring. Always ready to pounce.
CHARLIE: Well pounce on this. Look.
GRANDPA JOE: What’s that?
CHARLIE: It’s a wrapper from a Whipple Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight.
GRANDPA JOE: Wonka’s masterpiece! Where on earth did you find it?
CHARLIE: A candy shop just opened at the end of our street and guess what? It sells Wonka bars. Imagine! Come on, let’s put this in my scrapbook. Then we’ve just got time to play “Willy Wonka.”
GRANDPA JOE: Oh Charlie, you know we’re not supposed to play “Willy Wonka.” Your mom says it distracts you from your homework.
CHARLIE: She won’t find out.
GRANDPA JOE: Why don’t I tell you a story instead? How about the time I was a travel agent for a Mr. Lewis and a Mr. Clark. A weekend break in the hills they asked for... lovely gentlemen. I wonder what happened to them.
CHARLIE: Pleeease! Grandpa Joe. Pleeeease. You know what sort of story I want!
GRANDPA JOE: All right! But shhh. We mustn’t wake up your other grandparents.
Side 2: Charlie Bucket & Mrs. Bucket
Context: Mrs. Bucket presents Charlie with a salvaged notebook from the dump, encouraging him to focus on his studies despite his dreams of becoming a chocolatier.
MRS. BUCKET: Oh Charlie—look what else I found when I was down at the dump—
CHARLIE: A new notebook!
MRS. BUCKET: Some water damage, but look, all blank pages.
CHARLIE: Perfect for inventing chocolate!!
MRS. BUCKET: Perfect for homework.
CHARLIE: Aww!
MRS. BUCKET: Inventing candy’s fun, Charlie, but you need to earn a living. A person can’t eat daydreams, you know.
CHARLIE: I know.
MRS. BUCKET: I’ll check your answers when you’re done.
CHARLIE: If five boys have x bars of chocolate and each bar has y squares and x is two times y, then how many squares of chocolate does each boy have?... Oh I can’t!
MRS. BUCKET: Charlie, I’m off to do the night shift. Will you look after these reprobates for me?
CHARLIE: I will.
MRS. BUCKET: Night Charlie.
CHARLIE: Night mom.
Side 3: The Factory Gates
Context: Willy Wonka meets the Golden Ticket winners and their parents outside the factory for the first time.
WILLY WONKA: GLOOPS!
MRS. GLOOP: Mr. Wonka, Guten Tag!
WILLY WONKA: Willkommen Frau Gloop delighted to meet you. And this must be little Augustus? Why he looks so—healthy.
MRS. GLOOP: He’s my tiny little pickle!
AUGUSTUS: Hallo! Ow!
WILLY WONKA: Pleased to meet you Augustus but I’m afraid I must confiscate your sausage. Any more contraband?
AUGUSTUS: Sausage!? But that’s my lunch! That’s sad because I love ’em.
WILLY WONKA: YOU MAY GO FIRST, BUT LOSE THE WURST. SALTS!
MR. SALT: Zdravstvuyte! Oleg Salt, from Novosibirsk. I run Salt Peanuts, Salt Cod, and Salt Mines.
WILLY WONKA: That’s a lot of Salt, you should watch your blood pressure.
MR. SALT: And this is my wonderful daughter.
WILLY WONKA: Dyspepsia?
VERUCA: Veruca!
WILLY WONKA: Angina?
VERUCA: Veruca!
WILLY WONKA: Diarrhea?
VERUCA: VERUCAAAA!
WILLY WONKA: I’m terribly sorry I was reading your father’s medical records. Oleg, Entre nous. You really must take care of yourself.
VERUCA: I’ll take care of YOU, Wonka, if you don’t focus on ME!
WILLY WONKA: Where did you get this mink?
MR. SALT: Are you for real? It’s baby seal that’s clubbed then tickled pink! Da.
Side 4: The Inventing Room
Context: Violet ignores Wonka’s warnings and insists on testing a prototype piece of gum that tastes like a full three-course meal.
MR. BEAUREGARDE: You tell’em Vi!
VIOLET: Film me daddy.
MR. BEAUREGARDE: Tell the people what you taste, Vi.
VIOLET: Chicken soup. It’s delicious!
MR. BEAUREGARDE: Violet, you’re going to be the face of GUM!
WILLY WONKA: Mr. Beauregarde, it’s really just a prototype. It’s still very dangerous to eat.
VIOLET: Roast beef and mashed potato!
MR. BEAUREGARDE: Don’t worry Wonka, we’ll cut a deal on the image rights.
WILLY WONKA: Please Violet, spit it out!
VIOLET: Spit it out! Don’t you know who I am?
MR. BEAUREGARDE: You’re talking to the Queen of Pop!
VIOLET: Ok?
WILLY WONKA: Yes, Mr. Beauregarde but—
VIOLET: Oh!
MR. BEAUREGARDE: What is it Vi?
VIOLET: PIE!
MR. BEAUREGARDE: What kind of pie, Vi?
VIOLET: Blueberry!…Uh-oh.
MR. BEAUREGARDE: What?
VIOLET: I swallowed it. I don’t feel so good.
MR. BEAUREGARDE: Wonka, what’s happening to her?
Side 5: Chocolate Television
Context: Wonka demonstrates a machine that sends chocolate through the air into a TV screen, but Mike Teavee decides to use it on himself.
WILLY WONKA: All we need to do now, is find the right channel! A volunteer! Mrs. Teavee, channel 209. Just stick to the numbers.
MRS. TEAVEE: Ok 209... Do I hit "Ok" "Select" or "Enter?" Now I’ve turned on the Apple TV.
MIKE: Oh give it to me, Useless! That’s not Chocolate Television, Wonka. That’s chocolate on television. I can see that any day of the week.
WILLY WONKA: Pick it up, Mike. Go ahead—just reach into the screen.
MIKE: What? No way! If I touch that I’m gonna go down some chute or something.
CHARLIE: It's real.
WILLY WONKA: Taste it.
CHARLIE: It's really real!
MIKE: Hey Wonka, if you can put chocolate on TV, can you do it with a person too?
WILLY WONKA: I suppose I could but there might be some technical issues.
MIKE: I’m doing it. I’m not just gonna be on TV, I’m gonna be IN TV! Welcome to the Mike Teavee TV Show!
MRS. TEAVEE: Mikey, what are you doing? Mike no! Stop! Michael come down here now. Oh my God, Wonka! He’s gone!
WILLY WONKA: No he hasn’t gone Mrs. Teavee. He’s all around us now in—billions and billions of tiny microscopic particles. He should be on channel 209. Channel 209. 209. Interesting... Oompas, we've lost him. We're going to need more screens.
MRS. TEAVEE: More screens? That’s the last thing Mikey needs. Can’t we just Google him?
WILLY WONKA: Gotcha! Mike! Get out of there—before it’s too late!
MRS. TEAVEE: I’ve never seen him so happy. He’s channel surfing!
Side 6: Willy Wonka
WILLY WONKA: My name is Willy Wonka. I make chocolate. Quite simply, the greatest invention in the entire history of the world. Whoever could there be who doesn't love the tooth-tickling, tongue-tastical taste of a sweet bar of soft milk chocolate... Except dogs, of course. It's poisonous to dogs.
(His cane arrives or he adjusts his stance.)
WILLY WONKA: There comes a time, in every chocolatier's life, when the chocolate he makes turns dark and bitter. That's when he knows it's time to lay down his spoon... to hand over to someone else. Someone new. The only question is... I need to find a new... me. I have to go back out into the world. The world. I haven't been out there in a very, very long time. Well, what are you waiting for? Let's go!