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
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: G#2
Mrs. Bucket, and Ensemble Role(s)
Charlie's warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving.
Gender: Female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Grandma Josephine, and Ensemble Role(s)
Gender: Female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Grandma Georgina, and Ensemble Role(s)
Gender: Female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Ab3
Grandpa George, and Ensemble Role(s)
Gender: Male
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.
Gender: Female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Augustus Gloop
Rampantly over-active TEENAGE boy.
Gender: Male
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.
Gender: Male
Vocal range top: Ab4
Vocal range bottom: Ab2
Veruca Salt
Vicious and determined TEENAGE girl. Spoiled; as she always gets what she wants. Russian Ballerina
Gender: Female
Vocal range top: Db5
Vocal range bottom: Ab4
Mr. Beauregarde
Violet's ineffectual and promoting father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter.
Gender: Male
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: F#3
Violet Beauregarde
Confident, forward, and full of attitude TEENAGE girl.
Gender: Female
Vocal range top: F#5
Vocal range bottom: C#4
Mike Teavee
A fireplug TEENAGE boy with a ridiculous amount of energy and self-absorption.
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
Mrs. Green, Ensemble Role(s)
Street Veggie Seller pushes a selling cart around, optimistically friendly.
Gender: Female
Jerry Jubilee, Ensemble Role(s)
He is the TV News Announcer who over projects his dialogue.
Gender: Male
Cherry Sunday, Ensemble Role(s)
She is the TV News Correspondent who is loud and over projects her dialogue and has a not so secret crush on Jerry.
Gender: Female
Lead Oompa Loompas
All great singers/dancers and puppeteers. Fun, energetic mysterious workers at the chocolate factory. Doubles as Reporters, Street People etc. Lots of stage time in big production numbers in both Act 1 and Act 2
Gender: Male, Female
Oompa Loompas
Fun roles in a few factory numbers as well as doubling in ensemble roles in both Act 1 and Act 2.
Gender: Male, Female
Ensemble Roles may include:a
City people, Reporters, KGB bodyguards, German dancers/singers, Russian Ballerinas, Pop Influencer Groupies, America’s Cheerleaders. Each group has fun production numbers to be a part of.