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Auditions for CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY will take place September 22 or 23 at 6 or 7pm. Show dates are December 5-7 & 11-14, 2025.  Lead Kids other than Charlie will be cast older (older teens thru 20s) due to vocal demands. There are a few non-singing roles.

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Auditions
CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

SHOW DATES: December 5-7 & 11-14, 2025

Strong vocalists/actors and actresses are needed to fulfill these roles to tell this infamous story.  Lead candidates must possess great comic timing.  Note lead kids, except Charlie, will be played by older teen/adult 20s due to vocal demands. Veruca must be skilled in ballet.

WHERE
The Belmont Theatre
27 South Belmont Street, York, PA

Enter main lobby early to fill out audition form.

Director: Rene Staub

SHOW DESCRIPTION
The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious factory…but only to a lucky few. Charlie Bucket and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a life-changing journey through Wonka’s world of pure imagination including chocolate waterfalls, nutty squirrels and the great glass elevator, all to be revealed by Wonka’s army of curious Oompa-Loompas. Musical favorites include “The Candy Man,” “I’ve Got a Golden Ticket,” “Oompa Loompa Song,” “Pure Imagination ” and new songs written for the Broadway show creating an unforgettable musical experience for all ages!


CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

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.
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Suggested age: 21 plus
 
Charlie Bucket
Sweet, smart, hopeful and loving. A boy with wonderful innocence and vulnerability.
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: G#3
Suggested age: 10-14
 
Technical Dancers
Dancers will perform technical dances utilizing Oompa Loompa puppets, be German dancers, dancing squirrels, etc.
Suggested age: teen and adult males and females/Must be skilled dancers-
Ballet skills a plus for a few who will also be dancing Squirrels who perform ballet.
 
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.
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: G#2
Suggested age: 50 plus
 
Mrs. Bucket
Charlie’s warm and kind-hearted mother. Worrier. Generous and loving.
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Suggested age: 30 plus
 
Grandma Josephine
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Suggested age: 50 plus
 
Grandma Georgina
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Ab3
Suggested age: 50 plus
 
Grandpa George
Vocal range top: E4
Vocal range bottom: F2
Suggested age: 50 plus
 
Mrs. Gloop
Augustus’s German, moronic, Wagnerian mother. Mirthlessly smiles as though it were affixed to the front of her face.
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Suggested age: 30 plus
 
Augustus Gloop
Rampantly over-active.
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Suggested age: 14-25
 

Mr. Salt
Veruca’s goofy, eccentric, distracted, hilarious father. Finds it impossible to say no, giving in to every ridiculous demand his daughter makes.
Vocal range top: Ab4
Vocal range bottom: Ab2
Suggested age: 30 plus

 
Veruca Salt
Vicious and determined.
Vocal range top: Db5
Vocal range bottom: Ab4
Suggested age: 14-25
Must be a skilled ballet dancer
 
Mr. Beauregarde
Violet’s ineffectual father. Ignores his back-talking, insult-hurling daughter.
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: F#3
Suggested Age: 30 plus
 
Violet Beauregarde
Confident, forward, and full of attitude.
Vocal range top: F#5
Vocal range bottom: C#4
Suggested age: 14-25
Must be able to belt/sing in a pop style.
 
Mike Teavee
A fireplug with a ridiculous amount of energy.
Vocal range top: Bb4
Vocal range bottom: G3
Suggested age: 14-25
 
Mrs. Teavee
She needs amphetamines to get through the day and deal with her outrageous son. Tense, extreme, and hilarious.
Vocal range top: Eb5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Suggested age: 30 plus
 
Mrs. Green
A vegetable seller.
Suggested age:  20 plus
 
Jerry
Adult Reporter
Suggested age: 20 plus
 
Cherry
Adult Reporter
Suggested age: 20 plus
 
Ensemble
All ages/Kids/Adults
 
 

Cast List

TITANIC

OFFICERS and STAFF

CAPTAIN E.J. SMITH: Jim Moyer

First OfficerMURDOCH: Jeremy Gruver

Second Officer LIGHTHOLLER: Seth Hench

Third Officer PITMAN: Owen Lutz
Doubles 4th Man in Lady’s Maid/Third Class

Fourth Officer BOXHALL: James Herman
Doubles as Bandsman TAYLOR

Quartermaster
HITCHENS: Diego Oropeza

HAROLD BRIDE Radioman: Dylan Staub

FREDERICKBARRETT Stoker : Kent-Jameson Ehrman

FREDERICK FLEET
Lookout: Carter Anstine
Doubles as ROGERS, 1st and 2nd class passenger

HARTLEY: Kenny Hamme
Doubles as Joseph BELL, Chief Engineer

HENRY ETCHES Senior first-class steward: Drew Derreth
Doubles 3rd Class Steward:

LATIMORE: Evan Tinsman
Doubles as Stevedore

SAILOR: Alex Wilson

BELLBOY: Nolan Matseur
Doubles 3rd Class Passenger

STEWARDESS HUTCHINSON: Emily Goodling
Tech Dancer Tech Dancer in LATEST RAG

STEWARDESS ROBINSON: Maddie Buckley
Tech Dancer Tech Dancer in LATEST RAG

STEWARDESS EDWARDSON: Mariah Banke
Tech Dancer Tech Dancer in LATEST RAG

PRINCIPAL PASSENGERS-

FIRST CLASS PASSENGERSAll double as 3rd  Class Passengers in Lady’s Maid

ISADOR STRAUSS: Christopher Quigley
Doubles German Man in Lady’s Maid/Third Class

IDA STRAUSS: Chalet Harris

JOHN ASTOR: Kevin Alvarnaz
Doubles 3rd class Italian couple vocal in Lady’s Maid

MADELAINE ASTOR:  Jules Quintilian
Doubles 3rd class Italian couple vocal in Lady’s Maid

BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM: Ryan Adams
Doubles 3rd Man  3rd Class vocal in Lady’s Maid

MME AUBERT: Lisa Rigby-Gieger

JOHN B. THAYER: Andrew Matseur
Doubles 1st Man Vocal in Lady’s Maid

MARION THAYER: Emily Myers

JACK THAYER: Desmond Kickery

GEORGE WIDENER:  Dan Signore 
Doubles 2nd Man vocal/3rd Class in Lady’s Maid

ELEANOR WIDENER:
 Christy Galemore           

CHARLOTTE CARDOZA: Elizabeth Rickard

J.H. ROGERS: Caleb Stiffler

THE MAJOR/CARLSON/ENSEMBLE: Brad Mendenhall


SECOND CLASS PASSENGERS

ALICE BEANE: Natalie Kerchner

EDGAR BEANE: Aaron Dalton

CHARLES CLARK: Thomas Wakeland

CAROLINE: NEVILLE: Makaley Grace


THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS
Doubles 1st  class passengers in WHAT A REMARKABLE AGE

KATE MCGOWAN: Abigail Simeile

KATE MURPHY: Chloe Braden

KATE MULLINS: Mackenzie (Catarina) Sawyer

JIM FARRELL: TBA


ADULT ENSEMBLE

Kim Beckman 2nd  class passenger

Ashleigh Cummings- 1st  and 3rd  class passenger

Brad Mendenhall- 2nd class passenger

Zoe Pew- 1st  & 3rd  class passenger

Rebecca Wolf-3rd class passenger


CHILDREN’S ENSEMBLE

Ben Adams- 3rd class passenger

Samuel Adams-2nd class passenger

Sofia Dalton -2nd  class passenger

Emmett Duncan -3rd  class passenger

Astrid Galemore- 3rd  class passenger

Korrin Hillenburg- 2nd  class passenger

Olivia Kickery- 3rd  class passenger

Malakai Wolf-3rd  class passenger

FEMALE DANCERS for LATEST RAG: Jules Quintillan, Mariah Banke, Rebecca Hartman

MALE DANCERS for LATEST RAG: Dylan Staub, Thomas Wakeland, Carter Anstine, Owen Lutz

 

 

Cast List

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION

STAMMAS: Craig Copas
RED: Malcolm Xtra
ANDY: Aaron Ayala
BOGS: Eric Weiss
HADLEY: Hunter Hughes
BROOKSIE: Thomas DiMaggio
TOMMY: Scott Sauter
RILO: Na’San Jamison
PINKY: Elijah Alexander
ENTWHISTLE: Edward Ritter
DAWKINS: Dave Yates
ROOSTER: Madison Buckley

And Then There Were None

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