We look forward to some great auditions for Willy Wonka Jr.! We would like to hear you sing at  your audition in order to ensure that we match the correct individual with each role. It would be  helpful if you audition on the songs listed below. You may also choose to audition on another  appropriate musical theater, Disney or traditional song. If you choose to do so, please bring a  recording of the accompaniment with you to your audition. See the table below for specific song  suggestions for each role. Click on the links to listen to and practice the piece(s) that you choose to  sing. We may only ask you to sing part of it in the audition, please do not think too much into it. The  reason we are doing this is to ensure everyone has a chance to audition. In addition, we ask that you  prepare ONE monologue from the below options. You do not have to choose the monologue of the  character you sing for. If you are nervous about memorization, you may bring the words to your  monologue and song at auditions.

Please feel free to contact Miss. Amber - abenner@eastcentral.k12.mn.us -  320-245-6010 with any questions that you may have.

PHINEOUS TROUT: (the reporter covering the Golden Ticket stories) This is  Phineous Trout with a direct TV link to Frankfurt, Germany. That’s right,  ladies and gentlemen, people are buying over 50,000 Wonka bars every hour  and the first Golden Ticket has been found! – Here’s the family now. Mrs.  Droop, Mrs. Droop, may we have a word? Ladies and gentlemen, we are  coming to you, live outside the gates of the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory  where history is about to be made. We’ve been told Mr. Willy Wonka himself  will soon emerge from behind these mysterious gates. It seems something is  happening. Yes, yes! Here he comes now, the chocolate genius of the century.  Mr. Willy Wonka!  

CHARLIE BUCKET: (as he’s just about to leave Wonka’s factory for good…)  Um, goodbye Mr. Wonka... (hesitates) Just a minute Mr. Wonka. I don’t  deserve the lifetime supply of chocolate. I... I tasted the fizzy lifting drink and I  broke the rules. And I’m very sorry. But thank you for the wonderful day and  the most wonderful tour of your factory. I think it’s the most wonderful and  incredible and exciting place in the whole wide world. Being here was better  than Christmas. (PAUSE) What? I don’t understand? But, what about the other  kids? (pause as if receiving info from Willy Wonka) You want me to run this  entire factory? What about my mom and dad and Grandpa Joe? What? My  whole entire family can live here? Well then….I’d love to – I’d positively love  to!

WILLY WONKA: (Speaking to Mrs. Gloop, after Augustus has fallen in the  chocolate) That pipe goes nowhere near the Marshmallow Room! It leads to  the Strawberry Dipping Room, where he will be heated to a temperature of  eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit – or is that Celsius? I do mix the two up so  often… sometimes with tragic consequences. (now speaking to the Oompa  Loompas) In any case, someone will accompany Mrs. Gloop to the Strawberry  Dipping Room , and when you get there take a long, sharp stick and start  poking around the big chocolate-mixing barrel. But hurry! If you leave him too  long he’s likely to be poured into the fudge boiler and that would be a  tragedy!... Could damage the machinery… 2….(To Charlie, as he realizes how  good Charlie is). This was a test of character, Charlie. I carefully selected  rooms that would tempt each of our Golden Ticket winners. You, Charlie, did  something quite remarkable. You gave in to temptation, you were smart  enough not to get caught and yet – you admitted your guilt.

GRANDPA JOE: (Charlie’s kind grandpa, who once worked for Mr Wonka; he is  telling Charlie about the factory) No one goes in, Charlie, and no one comes out.  Not since the tragic day that Willy Wonka locked it. All the other chocolate  makers in the world were sending in spies-- dressed as workers!--to steal Mr.  Wonka's secret recipes. Finally Mr. Wonka shouted, "I shall be ruined! Close  the factory!" And that's just what he did. He locked the gates and vanished  completely. And then suddenly, about three years later, the most amazing  thing happened. The factory started working again, full blast! And more  delicious candies were coming out than ever before. But the gates stayed  locked so that no one could steal them.

VIOLET: When I sleep I put the gum on my headboard, so in the morning all  I have to do is pop it back in my mouth and start chewing again. It’s a little  hard to get started, and one time I got it in my hair, but Ma cut it out and I  went right on chewing it. It was a hairy moment. Anyways, I’m a gum chewer  normally, but when I heard about Wonka’s contest, I laid off the gum and  switched straight on to candy bars. That’s how I found my ticket! Now, of  course, I’m right back on the gum. In fact, I’ve been working on this piece for  over three months solid. I’ve beaten the record set by my best friend, Cornelia  Prinzmetel. Hi, Cornelia, listen to this… (She chews loudly into the microphone) That’s the sound of you losing! …(SHE chews even more loudly adding, smacks  and pops.) Chew on THAT, Princess Prinzmetel!  

VERUCA SALT: (Veruca is speaking to Phineous, the reporter, who has just  mispronounced her name on TV) : My name is Veruca, you imbecile! VERUCA,  VERUCA, VERUCA! I said Veruca, you moron. You pea brain! Don’t you  know who I am? Don’t you know who my Daddy is? He will have you fired for  mispronouncing my name, won’t you Daddy? He bought hundreds of  thousands of Wonka Bars to make sure I would win. Daddy, this hideous  reporter said my name wrong on live television, and now he’s being sarcastic!  Can’t you get him fired? I want him fired. Fired! Do you hear me? Fired, fired,  fired! Ugh, this is about me Daddy! They want to know about MY ticket and  he can’t even get my name right!

MR (or MRS) SALT: My daughter Veruca here is a very special girl. Very  special. And when she said she simply had to have one of them there Golden  Tickets, see, we went nuts buying Wonka bars by the hundreds. I must have  bought hundreds of thousands of Wonka bars. I had my factory girls stop shelling Brazil nuts and start shelling wrappers. And after days of shelling  chocolate, one of my factory gals finally found the blasted Golden Ticket. I let  her take the lucky piece of chocolate home to her 17 kids (pauses to hear the  reporter’s question) Me? I’m in the nut business – peanuts, cashews, Brazils,  macadamias. If its nuts you want, I got ‘em! Roasted, raw, plain, or fancy, folks  go nuts for our nuts. Call us at one eight hundred we’re nuts. Major credit  cards accepted!  

MIKE TEEVEE: (watching TV speaking to his mother) Shut your pie hole toots!  Didn’t I tell you never to interrupt? And I’m not going to school….who needs  school? Are you joking?! Or just crazy? I’ve got my screens and the net and  the whole world in the palm of my hand I don’t got no time for school. Now,  hush up….this is the best part! Crack, Smack, Whack! WOOOO! Did you see  that guy wipe out? That was so totally awesome! (slight pause) Ma, I said Zip it!  This next show is THE BOMB! Wait a minute….freeze frame…it’s my cell…  (MIKE picks up his cell phone) Talk to me. Hold on, got another call. (MIKE  holds up another phone to his ear) Talk to me. (to Phineas Trout the reporter)  Dude, can’t you see I’m busy running an empire here? (speaking into one  phone) Gotta go --- (speaking into the other phone) Catch ya later, dude… (to  Phineous) Ok, now, whaddya want?

You may choose to sing any of the songs and monologues listed above if  you are auditioning for any of those specific roles. You can pick one  character for one song, and a different character for your monologue.  I look forward to seeing you at auditions. 

- Miss. Amber