Mainstage Audition Material

CCP’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Musical!”

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

Charlie’s warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving.
Gender: Female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: G3

Mrs. Green

Gender: Female

Jerry

Gender: Male

Grandma Josephine

Gender: Female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: C4 

Grandma Georgina

Gender: Female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Ab3 

Grandpa George

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.
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.
Gender: Male
Vocal range top: Ab4
Vocal range bottom: Ab2

Cherry

James

Charlie’s friends