Casting

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Cast Size: Medium (11 to 20 performers)
Cast Type: Star Vehicle Male

Character Breakdown

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.

Gender: male
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Charlie Bucket

Sweet, smart, hopeful and loving. A boy with wonderful innocence and vulnerability.

Gender: male
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: G#3
Mrs. Green

A vegetable seller.

Gender: female
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.

Gender: male
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: A#2
Mrs. Bucket

Charlie's warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving.

Gender: female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Grandma Georgina
Gender: female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Ab3
Grandpa George
Gender: male
Vocal range top: E4
Vocal range bottom: F2
Grandma Josephine
Gender: female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Augustus Gloop

Rampantly over-active.

Gender: male
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Mrs. Gloop

Augustus's German, moronic, Wagnerian mother. Mirthlessly smiles as though it were affixed to the front of her face.

Gender: female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Violet Beauregarde

Confident, forward, and full of attitude.

Gender: female
Vocal range top: F#5
Vocal range bottom: C#4
Mr. Beauregarde

Violet's ineffectual father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter.

Gender: male
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: F#3
Veruca Salt

Vicious and determined.

Gender: female
Vocal range top: Db5
Vocal range bottom: Ab4
Mr. Salt

Veruca's goofy, eccentric, distracted, hilarious father. Finds it impossible to say no, giving in to every ridiculous demand his daughter makes.

Gender: male
Vocal range top: Ab4
Vocal range bottom: Ab2
Mike Teavee

A fireplug with a ridiculous amount of energy.

Gender: male
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.

Gender: female
Vocal range top: Eb5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Cherry Sunday
The “chief confectionary correspondent,” who interviews the Golden Ticket winners and their parents.
Ensemble

The Gum Chompin’ Divas; Crowds; Reporters; Oompa Loompas; Squirrels