NPAC announces auditions for their summer musical, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Based on the beloved children’s book by Roald Dahl and the 1971 movie, "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" starring Gene Wilder, this Broadway musical was released for community theatre performance just last year and NPAC is the first organization in the area to produce it. The show contains both original songs and songs from the movie as it follows the journey of Charlie Bucket from his inner-city shack to the glorious Wonka Chocolate Factory.
Auditions will be held Sunday, May 25 at 7:00pm; Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day) at 3:00pm; with callbacks on Wednesday, May 28 at 7:00pm at the NPAC Auditorium complex in Northport Public School, 104 S. Wing St. Auditioners will be asked to perform a cold reading from the script, learn a section from one of the songs in the show, and learn a short, simple dance.
There are 18 named roles and an ensemble of both kids and adults:
KIDS’ ROLES
Charlie Bucket: Sweet, smart, hopeful and loving. A boy with wonderful innocence and vulnerability.
Augustus Gloop: A rampantly overactive young man.
Veruca Salt: A vicious and determined young lady who knows what she wants and wants it Now.
Violet Beauregarde: A confident, forward young lady full of attitude and insults.
Mike Teavee: an IT-obsessed fireplug with a ridiculous amount of energy.
ADULT ROLES
Willy Wonka: The sly, charming star of the show. Lithe & eccentric.
Grandpa Joe: Charlie's impish, imaginative, fun, kind, and loving grandfather.
Mrs. Bucket: Charlie's warm and kindhearted mother. Generous and loving, but a bit of a worrier.
Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George, Grandma Georgina: Charlie’s other grandparents.
Mrs. Gloop: Augustus's German, moronic, Wagnerian mother.
Mr. Salt: Veruca's goofy, eccentric, distracted, hilarious, disastrously permissive father.
Mr. Beauregarde: Violet's ineffectual father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter.
Mrs. Teavee: Mike’s tense, extreme, and hilarious mom who needs help to get through the day and deal with her outrageous son.
Mrs. Green: a seller of pre-loved vegetables.
Cherry and Jerry: Television reporters.
ENSEMBLE
Includes children and adults
The show will be directed and choreographed by Mary Newman.
Fred Szczepanski is the Music Director.
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