Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory JR.
welcome to the theater
C ONGRATULATIONS!
You’ll be working with your creative team and fellow cast members to put on a musical. Before you begin rehearsals, there are some important things you should know.
This book is your script. Whether putting on a school production or rehearsing a professional show, every actor, director, and stage manager works from a script. Your script contains some additional information like this introduction and a glossary. You can look up any bold words in the glossary at the back of this book. Be sure to take good care of your script, and use a pencil when taking notes in it, since what you’ll be doing onstage can change during rehearsals.
One of the first things you’ll need to learn is what to call the various areas of the stage. Since most stages used to be raked, or tilted down toward the house, where the audience sits, we still use the term downstage to refer to the area closest to the audience and upstage to refer to the area farthest from the audience. Stage left and stage right are from the actor’s perspective when facing the audience. The diagram above shows how to use these terms to label nine different parts of the stage.
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what to expect during rehearsals
You will be performing a musical, a type of play that tells a story through songs, dances, and dialogue Because there are so many parts of a musical, most shows have more than one author. The composer writes the music and usually works with a lyricist, who writes the lyrics, or words, to the songs. The book writer writes the dialogue (spoken words, or lines ) and the stage directions , which tell the actors what to do onstage and what music cues to listen for.
Your director will plan rehearsals so that the cast is ready to give its best performance on opening night! Remember to warm up before each rehearsal so that your mind, body, and voice are ready to go. Every rehearsal process is a little bit different, but here is an idea of what you can expect as you begin to work on your show.
music:
Since you’re performing a musical, it is important to learn the music early on in the rehearsal process. Your music director will teach the cast all the songs in the show and tell you what to practice at home.
choreography:
After you’ve got the music down, you’ll begin working on the choreography – or dance – in the show. Your choreographer will create the dances and teach them to the cast. The music and the choreography help tell the story.
blocking & scene work:
Your director will block the show by telling the cast where to stand and how to move around the stage. You’ll use your theater terms (downstage left, upstage right, etc.) a lot during this portion of the rehearsal process. You will also practice speaking your lines and work on memorizing them. Rehearsing your part from memory is called being off-book. Your director will help you understand the important action in each scene so you can make the best choices for your character’s objective, or what your character wants.
make the script your own
Always write your name legibly, either in the space provided on the cover of your script or on the title page. Scripts have a way of getting lost or changing hands during rehearsals!
Mark your lines and lyrics with a bright-colored highlighter to make your part stand out on the page. This will allow you to look up from your script during rehearsals, since it will be easier to find your place when you look back down.
Underline important stage directions, lines, lyrics, and individual words. For example, if your line reads, “Something like that,” and your director wants you to stress the word “that,” underline it in your script.
Save time and space by using the following standard abbreviations:
ON: onstage OFF: offstage
US: upstage DS: downstage
SL: stage left SR: stage right
CS: center stage X: cross
You may use these abbreviations to modify other instructions (e.g., you could write “R hand up” to remind yourself to raise your right hand). You may also combine them in various ways (e.g., you could write “XDSR” to remind yourself to cross downstage right).
Draw diagrams to help clarify your blocking. For example, if you are instructed to walk in a circle around a table, you might draw a box to represent the table, then draw a circle around it with an arrow indicating the direction in which you are supposed to walk.
Draw stick figures to help you remember your choreography. Remember, the simpler the better.
Mark your music with large commas to remind yourself where to take breaths while singing.
Although you should feel free to mark up your script, be careful it doesn’t become so cluttered with notes that you have a hard time finding your lines on the page! 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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MRS. GREEN
I suppose you want dinner, kid? I think I got an old string bean somewhere.
CHARLIE No. I don’t want vegetables, Mrs. Green. I want chocolate. (CHARLIE shows her the dollar.)
MRS. GREEN
You come into your inheritance Rockefeller?
CHARLIE
Something like that. One Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight. Please.
(CHARLIE offers the money. MRS. GREEN takes it and gives CHARLIE the chocolate.)
Don’t eat it all at once.
MRS. GREEN
CHARLIE
I should take it home and share it...
MRS. GREEN
Chocolate! Chocolate! Rots your teeth! Get your Wonka chocolate here!
(MRS. GREEN exits. CHARLIE inhales the smell of the chocolate. CHARLIE hesitates.)
CHARLIE
Just one tiny nibble. Just to check it’s ok. (CHARLIE tears opens the bar. CHARLIE stops – suddenly frozen.)
(#16 – I’VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET begins.)
some tips for the theater
Don’t upstage yourself. Cheat out so the audience can always see your face and hear your voice.
Always arrive at rehearsal on time and ready to begin.
Keep going! If you forget a line or something unexpected happens, keep the scene moving forward. Chances are, the audience won’t even notice.
Remember to thank the director and fellow cast and crew members.
If you are having trouble memorizing your lines, try writing them down or speaking them aloud�
It takes an ensemble to make a show; everyone’s part is important.
Bring your script and a pencil to rehearsal.every
Before the show, say, “Break a leg”– which means “good luck” in the theater.
Be respectful of others at all times.
Be specific! Make clear choices about your character’s background and motivation in the show.
Always be quiet backstage. And keep in mind, if you can see the audience, they can see you, so stay out of sight.
HAVE FUN!
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory JR. synopsis
WILLY WONKA, the Candy Man himself, opens the show. Though he’s been out of the public eye for quite a while, he has returned to find a replacement to run his chocolate factory (The Candy Man). Wonka has set up a candy shop, and CHARLIE BUCKET is among the first customers. While everyone else tears through the candy, leaving their
trash on the floor, Charlie marvels that the Wonka Franchise is back in his part of town. Charlie can’t believe his eyes when he spots a Wonka Whipple Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight and shares that his Grandpa Joe believes that Wonka is the best chocolatier who ever lived. Not knowing that he is speaking to the man himself, Charlie recounts the story of Wonka being betrayed by his workers and shuttering his factory (Willy Wonka! Willy Wonka!)
Charlie can’t afford to buy any chocolate – in fact, he can barely afford “vintage” cabbage from
MRS� GREEN’s vegetable cart. When Charlie arrives home, he shows GRANDPA JOE a Wonka Whipple Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight wrapper and tells him about the new shop. Charlie talks Grandpa Joe into playing ‘Willy Wonka’ (Charlie, You & I).
The game ends abruptly when MRS� BUCKET arrives home. Charlie wakes JOSEPHINE, GEORGINA, and GEORGE, his other grandparents, for dinner. Mrs. Bucket has found a notebook for Charlie to use for homework, but he uses it to write a letter to Willy Wonka instead (A Letter
From Charlie Bucket). He folds the letter into a paper plane and launches it out his window.
The next morning, Mrs. Bucket brings home a newspaper she’s found announcing that Wonka’s factory will be reopening for five lucky Golden Ticket Winners, plus one of the winners will receive a lifetime supply of Wonka Confectionaries (Headline Scene)! Every year, Charlie gets one
Charlie purchases a Fudge Mallow Delight candy bar from Mrs. Green.
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bar of chocolate for his birthday, and he hopes to find a ticket.
As Charlie passes the candy shop on his way to school, Wonka offers to sell him a chocolate bar. Charlie can’t afford one yet but sees on Wonka’s television that a ticket has been found! JERRY JUBILEE and CHERRY SUNDAE introduce MRS� GLOOP and her son, AUGUSTUS GLOOP – a three-time regional bratwurst-eating champion.
The next winner is VERUCA SALT, the daughter of the Russian peanut billionaire MR� SALT, and MR� BEAUREGARDE introduces the next winner: his daughter VIOLET BEAUREGARDE, local gum-chewing champion. MIKE TEAVEE finds the next golden ticket, although he admits to hacking Wonka’s computer system, which his mother, MRS� TEAVEE, finds charming.
Wonka switches off the TV in the candy shop, and Charlie is alone when he spots a dollar amongst the wrappers on the floor.
With Wonka nowhere to be found, Charlie purchases a Wonka Whipple Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight candy bar from Mrs. Green. When he unwraps the bar, he finds a golden
ticket! Charlie rushes back home to tell his family, and it’s decided that Grandpa Joe will go with him to the factory (I’ve Got A Golden Ticket).
At the factory, a CROWD with REPORTERS has gathered as the Golden Ticket Winners arrive (Red Carpet). Wonka, disguised at first as an old man, surprises everyone and welcomes the winners to the factory (It Must Be Believed To Be Seen).
The Golden Ticket Winners and their parents land in a heap inside the seemingly empty factory, and Wonka explains that making chocolate takes imagination as he reveals the factory (Pure Imagination). Wonka warns the Golden Ticket Winners not to drink from the chocolate river, but Augustus doesn’t listen. He falls into the river and becomes trapped in the pipe. The OOMPA LOOMPAS arrive to repair the fudge machine (Auf Wiedersehen Augustus). The tour moves on to the mixing room without Augustus and Mrs. Gloop.
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“Pure Imagination”
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In the mixing room, Wonka instructs the Golden Ticket Winners not to touch, meddle with, or taste anything without his express permission. Wonka shows everyone the Gastro-molecular Uni-cellulose Mouth Mulch, or G.U.M. for short, warning them that there is a problem with the blueberry pie at the end, but Violet grabs the G.U.M. from Wonka. She accidentally swallows it, then swells up like a blueberry. The Oompa
Loompas escort her offstage, where she explodes (You Got Whacha Want).
The tour continues as Wonka mimes crossing many factory obstacles, explaining the route as he goes, then invites Mike to try. One by one, the remaining Golden Ticket Winners cross through on the intricate path, joining Wonka on the other side of the stage.
Next up is the Nut Room, which is filled with SQUIRRELS that sort the nuts. Veruca wants a Squirrel for herself, even after Wonka explains that they aren’t pets, but Veruca doesn’t listen. She rushes into the sorting room and is determined to be a bad nut (Veruca’s Nutcracker: Sweet!)
The group continues to the TV Room, where Mike Teavee is so impressed with Wonka’s Chocolate Television that he tries to put himself
on the channel. Unfortunately, he is shrunken down to a size small enough to fit into Mrs. Teavee’s pocketbook (Vidiots)
Wonka, Charlie, and Grandpa Joe continue to the Imagining Room, which is completely empty save for a notebook where Wonka draws his ideas. Charlie asks to see the notebook, but Wonka slams the book shut and ends the tour. Grandpa Joe insists that Charlie is entitled to a lifetime supply of chocolate, and he and Wonka leave Charlie to discuss details. In the Imagining Room, Charlie draws an idea in Wonka’s notebook, and Wonka reveals that Charlie has won the whole factory (The View From Here). Charlie’s family is waiting for him inside as he and Wonka get to work (Finale)!
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“You Got Whacha Want”
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Mike Teavee takes the remote control for the Chocolate Television.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory JR. characters
(in order of appearance)
Willy Wonka
Charlie Bucket
Mrs� Green
Grandpa Joe
Grandma Josephine
Grandma Georgina
Grandpa George
Mrs� Bucket
Jerry Jubilee
Cherry Sundae
Mrs� Gloop
Augustus Gloop
Mr� Salt
Veruca Salt
Mr� Beauregarde
Violet Beauregarde
Mike Teavee
Mrs� Teavee
Ensemble:
Crowd, Reporters, Oompa Loompas, Squirrels
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SCENE 1: OUTSIDE THE FACTORY
(#1 – OVERTURE begins.)
(#2 – THE CANDY MAN begins.)
THE CANDY MAN
(A MAN (WONKA in disguise) peeks out from behind a factory.)
(WONKA:) My name is Willy Wonka. I make chocolate. Quite simply, the greatest invention in the entire history of the world. (His cane arrives, and he turns it into a microphone.)
(WONKA:) There comes a time in every chocolatier's life when the chocolate he makes turns dark and bitter; that's when he knows it's time to lay down his spoon to hand over to someone else, someone new. I need to Þnd a new me. A Candy Man.
(WONKA:) I have to go back out into the world. I haven't been there in a very, very long time. Well what are you waiting for? Let's go.
(WONKA begins to create the candy shop: an oasis of color and excess, gaudy, garish, and bright.)
(WONKA hesitates.)
(WONKA:) And so, incognito.
(WONKA turns the shop sign to 'OPEN.') WONKA: Do come in.
SCENE 2: THE CANDY SHOP
(#3 – CANDY SHOP begins.)
(A CROWD of people go crazy for candy. They buy it greedily and throw wrappers everywhere. WONKA is shocked.)
(Finally, the CROWD disperses leaving a big mess behind. A ragged schoolboy (CHARLIE) is left alone – he stares at the candy in awe... WONKA notices...)
What is this place?
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
I could ask you the same thing, kid.
CHARLIE
We haven’t had a Wonka Franchise in this part of town for years.
WILLY WONKA
I’m not surprised. Look at this mess. They guzzled up the chocolate and they threw the wrappers away without a second thought.
(WONKA surveys the damage to his shop and counts his money.)
CHARLIE
Oh Oh Oh Oh Ooooh!
WILLY WONKA
What is it? Are you having an asthma attack?
CHARLIE
A Wonka Whipple Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight!
What about it?
WILLY WONKA
CHARLIE
Don’t you know? The Wonka Whipple Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight is the best chocolate bar ever made! (CHARLIE sniffs the chocolate bar.)
I never thought I’d see one of these for real! Mmmmmm!
(CHARLIE sniffs again. WONKA takes the chocolate bar from CHARLIE and puts it on the stand.)
WILLY WONKA
Hey! Kid! You sniff, you buy!
CHARLIE
My Grandpa Joe says Willy Wonka is the greatest chocolatier who ever lived.
WILLY WONKA
So what happened to him?
(#4 – WILLY WONKA! WILLY WONKA! begins.)
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WILLY WONKA! WILLY WONKA!
Willy Wonka
CHARLIE: You run a candy shop, do you really not know any of this?
WONKA: Well, what happened next?
CHARLIE: Oh, he died.
WONKA: What!?
CHARLIE: Commercially he died.
WONKA: That's hardly the same thing.
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CHARLIE: It's a factory with no workers but somehow he still makes chocolate. How does he do it? 4x 2
CHARLIE: Willy Wonka turned his back on the world. 3 & b
(CHARLIE picks up a discarded wrapper and puts it in his pocket.)
(CHARLIE)
I’d give anything to see inside that factory. (#5 – THE BIG IDEA begins.)
WILLY WONKA
Say that again?
CHARLIE
I’d give anything to see inside that factory. Who wouldn’t?
Who indeed?
WILLY WONKA
CHARLIE
Oh well, sir, I’d love to stay and talk but I have to go buy dinner for my mom. I’m starving.
WILLY WONKA
Hey, wait wrapper sniffer, what did you say your name was?
CHARLIE Bucket, sir. Charlie Bucket.
WILLY WONKA
Well why don’t you buy a Wonka Bar, Bucket, if you like them so much?
CHARLIE
I can’t afford chocolate, sir. I only get one bar a year. On my birthday. Always Wonka.
WILLY WONKA
Well come back on your birthday. I’ll sell you one.
CHARLIE
Thank you, sir, I will!
(WONKA closes the door, and CHARLIE exits the shop.)
MRS. GREEN
(offstage)
Vegetables! Secondhand vegetables! Get your vintage vegetables here!
(MRS. GREEN, a vegetable seller, passes by pushing her cart.)
CHARLIE
Half a cabbage please, Mrs. Green.
MRS. GREEN
That’ll be seven cents, Bucket.
CHARLIE
Seven? It’s normally five?
MRS. GREEN
Price went up. You can have a rotten one for five?
CHARLIE
Yuck!
(CHARLIE gives her five cents. She gives him the cabbage. It’s awful.)
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MRS. GREEN
(going off)
Vegetables! Antique vegetables! Get your pre-loved vegetables here.
(#6 – CANDY MAN (REPRISE) begins.)
SCENE 3: THE BUCKET SHACK
(The shack is quiet; the GRANDPARENTS (GRANDPA JOE, GRANDMA JOSEPHINE, GRANDPA GEORGE, GRANDMA GEORGINA) are sleeping in the big bed. CHARLIE tiptoes in. GRANDPARENTS snore.)
CHARLIE
(quietly)
I’m home. Grandpa Joe? Look!
(CHARLIE pokes GRANDPA JOE, and he wakes with a start.)
What’s that?
GRANDPA JOE
CHARLIE
It’s a wrapper from a Whipple Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight.
GRANDPA JOE
Wonka’s masterpiece! Where on earth did you find it?
CHARLIE
A candy shop just opened at the end of our street and guess what? It sells Wonka bars.
GRANDPA JOE, CHARLIE
Imagine!
(CHARLIE brings the scrapbook out from its hiding place under the stairs.)
CHARLIE
Come on, let’s put this in my scrapbook. Then we’ve just got time to play ‘Willy Wonka.’
GRANDPA JOE
Oh Charlie, you know we’re not supposed to play ‘Willy Wonka.’ Your mom says it distracts you from your homework.
She won’t find out.
CHARLIE
GRANDPA JOE
Why don’t I tell you a story instead? How about the time I was—
CHARLIE
(interrupting)
Pleeease! Grandpa Joe. Pleeeease. You know what sort of story I want!
GRANDPA JOE
All right! But shhh. We mustn’t wake up your other grandparents.
(GRANDPARENTS snore and move in their sleep. GRANDPA JOE hands CHARLIE his Willy Wonka hat and cane.)
CHARLIE
(imitating Wonka)
My name is Willy Wonka, I make chocolate. How would you like to be my security guard? (#7 – CHARLIE, YOU & I begins.)
Charlie, You & I
CHARLIE, YOU & I
GRANDPA JOE: It would be an honor, sir!
CHARLIE: Perfect. And now I make the chocolate. Delumptious! (CHARLIE pantomimes mixing chocolate while GRANDPA JOE sings.)
A Tempo
GRANDPA JOE:
Meandyou,Charlie,wesee
CHARLIE: And then you add sugar! And raisins! And marshmallows! And—
(MRS. BUCKET enters.) MRS. BUCKET: Evening, all.
(CHARLIE and GRANDPA JOE gasp! CHARLIE and GRANDPA JOE try to hide the accoutrements of the charades. She eyes them, suspicious. They act innocent.)
(MRS. BUCKET)
Have you two been playing Willy Wonka again?
CHARLIE, GRANDPA JOE No!
(CHARLIE)
Grandpa Joe was just helping me with my—
(CHARLIE) GRANDP A JOE History! Geography!
CHARLIE GRANDP A JOE Geography! History!
(CHARLIE, GRANDPA JOE)
History of Geography!
MRS. BUCKET
I wouldn’t believe one word your grandpa says, Charlie. He makes it all up.
GRANDPA JOE
All my stories are true. Every one of them would stand up in court.
MRS. BUCKET
You couldn’t stand up anywhere, Joe. You’ve been stuck up in that bed for forty years. Charlie, wake up the others. It’s time to eat.
(CHARLIE rings the dinner bell. JOSEPHINE, GEORGINA, and GEORGE are shaken awake by the noise.)
JOSEPHINE, GEORGINA
Aaaaaahhhh!!!
CHARLIE Dinner!
JOSEPHINE, GEORGINA
Oh. Lovely.
Oh God, are we still here.
GEORGE
JOSEPHINE
What is for dinner tonight, my dear?
MRS. BUCKET
Cabbage Surprise.
JOSEPHINE
Didn’t we have that last night?
GRANDPA JOE, MRS. BUCKET, CHARLIE, GEORGE
That’s the surprise!
GEORGINA
I don’t mind cabbage but you know it makes me gassy.
MRS. BUCKET
Pass the soup, Charlie.
It’s cold.
Winter’s coming.
GEORGINA
JOSEPHINE
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I’ll light the stove.
There’s no wood.
MRS. BUCKET
GEORGE
MRS. BUCKET
I found an old chair leg on the garbage dump.
GRANDPA JOE
A chair leg. See, we’ll be warm as toast.
MRS. BUCKET
For tonight at least. Oh Charlie – look what else I found when I was down at the dump—
(MRS. BUCKET shows him.)
CHARLIE
A new notebook! Perfect for inventing chocolate!!!
MRS. BUCKET
Perfect for homework.
Aww!
CHARLIE
MRS. BUCKET
Inventing candy’s fun, Charlie, but you need to earn a living. A person can’t eat daydreams, you know.
(MRS. BUCKET gives CHARLIE the notebook and a pencil.)
I know.
CHARLIE
MRS. BUCKET
I’ll check your answers when you’re done. (CHARLIE chews his pencil. Agonized.)
CHARLIE
If five boys have x bars of chocolate and each bar has y squares and x is two times y, then how many squares of chocolate does each boy have?... Oh I can’t!
(#8 – A LETTER FROM CHARLIE BUCKET begins.)
A Letter From Charlie Bucket
A LETTER FROM CHARLIE BUCKET
(CHARLIE looks around – checks his mom isn't watching.)
(CHARLIE:) Wait, I've got a better idea. Dear Mr. Wonka...
"In 4" Delicately With Rubato
GRANDPARENTS, MRS. BUCKET:
Iwouldsharewithyou.
GRANDPARENTS, MRS. BUCKET:
Signed,CharlieBucket.Good
(GRANDPARENTS fall asleep and MRS. BUCKET heads offstage to work her night shift.)
Signed,CharlieBucket,in
(CHARLIE has made the letter into a paper plane. He sends it out, ßying, into the night, then curls up in his chair to sleep.)
Rit.
SCENE 4: THE NEXT DAY
(MRS. BUCKET enters, tired.)
MRS. BUCKET Morning, all!
GRANDPARENTS
Morning, dear.
MRS. BUCKET
Look what I found at the bus stop!
A Times!
MRS. BUCKET
Somebody must have left it behind.
(She hands the paper to the GRANDPARENTS. GRANDPARENTS all open the paper. The paper forms a headline: ‘Wonka’ ‘Factory’ ‘To Open’ ‘At Last.’ There are different words on each Grandparent’s paper. CHARLIE sees the headlines.)
CHARLIE
The headlines – look!
(He points as the GRANDPARENTS drop their papers.)
GEORGINA
What does it say?
(They each turn and read the headlines from their papers. In the wrong order.)
GEORGE
At Last
GEORGINA To Open
JOSEPHINE
Factory
GRANDPA JOE Wonka
JOSEPHINE
But what does it mean?
CHARLIE
No, start with Grandpa Joe.
(They try again.)
(#9 – HEADLINE SCENE begins.)
Headline Scene
HEADLINE SCENE
GRANDPA
JOE: JOSEPHINE: GEORGINA:
Won ka Factory To
GEORGE: (All GRANDPARENTS gasp.)
∑ MRS. BUCKET: Read what it says, Joe!
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GEORGE: (All GRANDPARENTS gasp.) ∑
MRS. BUCKET: Read what it says, Joe!
(GRANDPA JOE:) FIVE GOLDEN TICKETS. (The GRANDPARENTS react – ooooh!) Find one and you could win a dream trip to his Chocolate Factory for a tour conducted by...
GRANDPA JOE: (reads) Renowned chocolate maker Mr. Willy Wonka has announced an amazing contest. Inside some of the many chocolate bars that leave his factory every day he has hidden... "In 4" Presto &12 5
(GRANDPA JOE:) ...Mr. Willy Wonka himself!
CHARLIE: Wooahh!
(CHARLIE faints. MRS. BUCKET catches him.) Slower
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GEORGINA: (reads) And, as an extra bonus, one of the lucky children who tour his factory will claim the extra-special grand prize.
GEORGE: What's the prize?
GRANDPA JOE: Enough Wonka Confectionary to last an entire lifetime.
(CHARLIE:) Wait! Mom, it's my birthday soon, isn't it?
ALL GRANDPARENTS: (ad-lib) He's right! That's true!
CHARLIE: And every birthday I get one bar of chocolate. Don't I?
ALL GRANDPARENTS: (ad-lib) He does! He does!
MRS. BUCKET: Not this year, Charlie.
GEORGE: What's the prize?
GRANDPA JOE: Enough Wonka Confectionary to last an entire lifetime.
(CHARLIE:) Wait! Mom, it's my birthday soon, isn't it?
ALL GRANDPARENTS: (ad-lib) He's right! That's true!
CHARLIE: And every birthday I get one bar of chocolate. Don't I?
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ALL GRANDPARENTS: (ad-lib) He does! He does!
MRS. BUCKET: Not this year, Charlie.
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What?
Of course I heard about it but I don’t even want to think about Wonka till I can buy my own bar! As far as I’m concerned, no news is good news. &21 4
CHARLIE
MRS. BUCKET
It’s a chance in a million, Charlie. (#10 – CANDYSHACK begins.)
CHARLIE
One chance is all I need.
(CHARLIE crosses out of the shack.)
SCENE 5: STREET/THE CANDY SHOP (GOLDEN TICKET WINNER SEQUENCE)
(WONKA, who is standing outside of the candy shop, calls out to CHARLIE as he passes by the shop on his way to school.)
WILLY WONKA
Hey Bucket! Wanna buy some chocolate?
CHARLIE No!
WILLY WONKA
Why not? Everyone else does. Didn’t you hear about the contest? They’re calling it Wonkamania!
CHARLIE
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WILLY WONKA
I completely understand. Mum’s the word. Shall we turn on the TV?
(WONKA and CHARLIE turn to face the window of the Candy Shop. WONKA turns on the TV.)
(#11 – NEWS OF AUGUSTUS begins.)
JERRY
Chocolate news!
Bucket! Look!
What?
WILLY WONKA
CHARLIE
JERRY
We interrupt this program to bring you breaking news that the first Wonka ticket winner has been found. To find out more, let’s go straight over to our chief confectionary correspondent, Cherry Sundae. Cherry – where are you?
CHERRY
Jerry, I’m in Bavaria! And here in this sleepy mountain town it seems like a chocolate dream has come true for a local butcher’s son and three-time regional bratwurst-eating champion, Augustus Gloop!
MRS. GLOOP
Oh, go ahead, Augustus, my little pumpkin – smile for the camera!
(AUGUSTUS burps.)
WILLY WONKA
What a charming child! Quite the gastronome, eh, Bucket?
One chance gone.
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
Only four tickets left. Hadn’t you better be buying your bar before they all go?
CHARLIE
I can’t!
(WONKA exits back into the shop.) I need to go buy dinner.
(CHARLIE begins to exit as MRS. GREEN enters.)
MRS. GREEN
Chocolate! Chocolate! Get your Wonka chocolate here.
(CHARLIE sees MRS. GREEN. Her cart has now been upscaled to sell chocolate.)
CHARLIE
Mrs. Green! Have you stopped selling cabbage?
MRS. GREEN
Kid, vegetables are passé. The whole town’s going candy-crazy. I suppose I could give you half a bag of moldy Brussels sprouts for a dime?
CHARLIE
All right.
MRS. GREEN
All right. Chocolate! Chocolate! Get your Wonka Chocolate here.
(#12 – NEWS OF VERUCA begins.)
(WONKA appears outside the Candy Shop.)
JERRY
Chocolate news!
Bucket. Look!
Oh no.
WILLY WONKA
CHARLIE
JERRY
A second golden ticket has been found! And here to tell us all about it is our mistress of all matters Wonka, Cherry Sundae! Cherry – where are you now?
CHERRY
Jerry, I’m in Russia. Our winner is twelve, she likes ballet, she’s the daughter of a peanut billionaire, and her name is Veruca Salt! Mr. Salt – tell all!
MR. SALT
As soon as Mr. Wonka made his announcement, my Veruca expressed a very keen interest in the contest. She said—
I want a ticket, now!
VERUCA
MR. SALT
How could I possibly refuse?
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Two chances gone.
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
Only three tickets left!
(WONKA exits back in the Candy Shop.)
CHARLIE
I know!
MRS. BUCKET (entering)
Oh, there you are, Charlie. I knew you’d be hanging around that darn candy store! Charlie? Charlie?
CHARLIE Mm?
MRS. BUCKET
You’re thinking about those golden tickets again, aren’t you?
CHARLIE
I can’t help it, Mom. I just want to see inside that factory.
(#13 – NEWS OF VIOLET begins.)
(WONKA reappears outside the Candy Shop as MRS. BUCKET exits.)
JERRY
Chocolate news!
WILLY WONKA Bucket? Look!
CHARLIE No!
JERRY
Breaking news! We have a third Golden Ticket Winner! For more on the story, let’s go straight over to our chocolate newshound, Cherry Sundae! (fanfare) Cherry – where are you?
CHERRY
Jerry! I’m in California. Where lady luck has landed in the lap of local gum celebrity Violet Beauregarde... Here comes her daddy now... Mr. Beauregarde.
(MR. BEAUREGARDE and VIOLET enter.)
MR. BEAUREGARDE
Meet a little lady everybody’s talkin’ about... Now she is royalty of the highest order and she don’t give hoot about what Veruca says.
CHARLIE
Three chances gone.
WILLY WONKA
Mind you I’m not surprised according to the paper: Wonkamania is taking over the world.
(#14 – NEWS OF MIKE TV begins.)
JERRY
Chocolate News!
Bucket? Look!
Aarrgh!
WILLY WONKA
CHARLIE
JERRY
We have a fourth Golden Ticket Winner! Cherry, where are you?
CHERRY
Jerry, I’m in Idaho. Where they’re having a victory parade for a sweet little boy whose name is—
MIKE
Yo whatup! My name’s Mike Teavee and I’m the best. So check it... I hacked Willy Wonka’s computers and found one of his stupid golden tickets. Hashtag – WhatAJoke!
MRS. TEAVEE
Isn’t he wonderful?
SCENE 6: THE CANDY SHOP/THE BUCKET SHACK
(#15 – STAY SAFE OUT THERE begins.)
(WONKA packs up his shop. On the television, CHERRY and JERRY are in the same studio.)
JERRY
Oh, Wonka! What chocolate whirlwinds have you unleashed upon the world? Crazed children lust for sugar! It’s not so much an apocalypse as...
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CHERRY
An a-choc-alypse. As the nation is gripped by a desperate hunt for chocolate, the world asks—
JERRY
Upon whose infant brow will dame fate place her final golden kiss?
CHERRY
I’m Cherry Sundae.
JERRY
And I’m Jerry Jubilee, for Chocolate Tonight saying...
“Stay safe out there”
CHERRY, JERRY
(WONKA switches off the TV.)
CHARLIE
Are you leaving?
WILLY WONKA
Of course. All the chocolate’s gone. I’m closing up. Isn’t that wonderful! That Willy Wonka is a marketing genius, if I do say so myself. There’s still one chance left.
Not for me.
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
Oh, Bucket, don’t be so gloomy. You’ve been a witness to history. So long, Bucket. Goodbye!
CHARLIE
Goodbye....
(WONKA leaves. The shop is gone. All that is left is a pile of wrappers and CHARLIE. Suddenly, CHARLIE notices amongst the wrappers...) A dollar!
(CHARLIE picks it up.)
Sir! Sir! You left a dollar. Sir! Sir! He’s gone.
(A moment. CHARLIE begins to exit as MRS. GREEN enters.)
MRS. GREEN
Chocolate! Chocolate! Only a dollar. Get your Wonka chocolate here.
CHARLIE
Mrs. Green!
MRS. GREEN
I suppose you want dinner, kid? I think I got an old string bean somewhere.
CHARLIE
No. I don’t want vegetables, Mrs. Green. I want chocolate. (CHARLIE shows her the dollar.)
MRS. GREEN
You come into your inheritance, Rockefeller?
CHARLIE
Something like that. One Wonka Whipple Scrumptious Fudge Mallow Delight. Please.
(CHARLIE offers the money. MRS. GREEN takes it and gives CHARLIE the chocolate.)
Don’t eat it all at once.
MRS. GREEN
CHARLIE
I should take it home and share it...
MRS. GREEN
Chocolate! Chocolate! Rots your teeth! Get your Wonka chocolate here!
(MRS. GREEN exits. CHARLIE inhales the smell of the chocolate. CHARLIE hesitates.)
CHARLIE
Just one tiny nibble. Just to check it’s ok. (CHARLIE tears open the bar, then stops – suddenly frozen.)
(#16 – I’VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET begins.)
I've Got A Golden Ticket
I’VE GOT A GOLDEN TICKET
(There's something golden in his chocolate bar.)
Colla Voce Con Moto (CHARLIE:)
Roald
(CHARLIE, back at the shack, holds up the Þnal golden ticket.)
(CHARLIE:) Grandpa Joe, we won! ALL BUCKETS: (excited ad-lib reaction)
MRS. BUCKET: Wait a minute, Joe. This ticket says to go on the tour, Charlie has to be accompanied by a responsible adult. GRANDPA JOE: So?
MRS. BUCKET: Well, I can't go with him. If I don't turn up for work, my boss is sure to Þre me, and I can't afford to lose my job.
(CHARLIE:) Grandpa Joe, we won!
ALL BUCKETS: (excited ad-lib reaction)
MRS. BUCKET: Wait a minute, Joe. This ticket says to go on the tour, Charlie has to be accompanied by a responsible adult.
GRANDPA JOE: So?
MRS. BUCKET: Well, I can't go with him. If I don't turn up for work, my boss is sure to Þre me, and I can't afford to lose my job.
GRANDPA JOE: I'll take him.
MRS. BUCKET: But Joe, you can't walk.
GRANDPA JOE: Couldn't. Couldn't walk... (GRANDPA JOE tosses aside the blanket.)
(A CROWD, REPORTERS, GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS, and their GUARDIANS gather beside a red carpet. Hundreds of ßashbulbs. JERRY and CHERRY announce the arrivals.)
2 "In 4" Maestoso
CHERRY: The long wait is over, the big day has Þnally arrived. We've gathered here to witness the arrival of the Þve ticket-toting tots who've won a trip to Chocolate paradise!
CHERRY: The long wait is over, the big day has Þnally arrived. We've gathered here to witness the arrival of the Þve ticket-toting tots who've won a trip to Chocolate paradise!
JERRY: We're coming to you live from right here outside Willy Wonka's Factory Gates.
CHERRY: But where is the man who built the factory?
JERRY: The man they call—
Old-Time Piano w w
(GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS and PARENTS enter the factory.) (WONKA:)
Gloop! Tea vee!
Bucket!
SCENE 8: WONKA’S OFFICE
Docomein.
(#19 - IT MUST BE BELIEVED TO BE SEEN (PLAYOFF) begins. In a flash, the GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS are... gone! Screams!)
(Light on a messy heap of PARENTS and GUARDIANS and CHILDREN.)
GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS, PARENTS, GUARDIANS Oof.
(WONKA appears at his desk in a pool of light.)
Roald
WILLY WONKA
Nice of you to drop in. Welcome to my factory. First stop, Reception.
MR. SALT
Wonka what kind of factory is this?
VERUCA
Where’s all the chocolate?
MR. BEAUREGARDE
Violet wants candy.
And swag!
VIOLET
MRS. TEAVEE
We were expecting an educational tour.
MRS. GLOOP
With tasting.
AUGUSTUS
And pipes full of ice cream just pouring out of everywhere you know like just ice cream and toffee sauce everywhere and...
MIKE
Wonka, we just wanna see all the cool stuff.
WILLY WONKA
Stuff, is that what you think it takes to make chocolate?
GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS, PARENTS, GUARDIANS Isn’t it?
WILLY WONKA
No.
CHARLIE
What does it take, Mr. Wonka?
WILLY WONKA
One thing and one thing only.
GRANDPA JOE Beans!
WILLY WONKA
Imagination.
Imagination? What’s that?
MIKE
(#20 – PURE IMAGINATION begins.)
PURE IMAGINATION
Pure Imagination
WONKA: Close your eyes, make a wish, and count to three. (They close their eyes. Heavenly music. SCENE 9: THE CHOCOLATE ROOM – A Chocolate Eden.)
"In 4, then 2" Rubato
be.
(WONKA:) I've been working on this for seventeen and a half years. The sugar trees actually grow!
(WONKA:) The marshmallow peeps really ßy. And in the winter, it snows powdered sugar! Yours are the Þrst eyes ever to see it. A world made completely and entirely out of candy. What do you think? (WONKA hands CHARLIE a lollipop ßower.)
# # # #
(The GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS and PARENTS all inspect the candy landscape.)
AUGUSTUS
Mr. Wonka, can we eat it?
(#21 – IT’S MY CREATION begins.)
WILLY WONKA
Eat anything you like. That’s what it’s for.
GRANDPA JOE
Charlie, taste the dandelions! They’re made of cotton candy!
MIKE
This cow’s made of marshmallow!
VIOLET
This vine is rock candy!
VERUCA
The fruits are sugar plums!
AUGUSTUS
Mama, it’s a whole lagoon full of chocolate!
WILLY WONKA
No. Stop. Don’t drink from the chocolate lagoon! It’s connected directly to the main fudge mixing tubes. If you fall in, you’re liable to be sucked right up the pipe. Is that clear?
Clear!
GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS, GUARDIANS
(The GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS continue eating.)
MR. SALT
I don’t get it. Wonka. What’s the point of this thing? Can you sell it?
MR. BEAUREGARDE
Do you use it for photo shoots?
MRS. GLOOP
Is it a little cupboard of treats for your midnight snack?
Is it art therapy?
It’s my creation.
MRS. TEAVEE
WILLY WONKA
(VERUCA screams – loudly.)
CHARLIE Look!
(He points. They look. AUGUSTUS drinks chocolate in great gulps straight from the river.)
Augustus, stop!
WILLY WONKA
MRS. GLOOP
Mr. Wonka. He’s just peckish!
AUGUSTUS
Just one more handful!
(AUGUSTUS falls into the chocolate river.)
MRS. GLOOP
Augustus!
(#22 – AUGUSTUS STOP! begins.)
(An alarm sounds. Whoop. Whoop. Whoop.)
MR. BEAUREGARDE
Wonka, what’s happening?
WILLY WONKA
The system has detected an impurity.
MRS. GLOOP
Augustus is not an impurity. He’s my little baby boy!
(MIKE is filming. WONKA goes to the speaking tube.)
MRS. TEAVEE
Mike, stop filming other people’s tragedy.
WILLY WONKA
(into the speaking tube, his cane)
Initiate emergency response unit!
(#23 – AUF WIEDERSEHEN AUGUSTUS begins.)
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Auf Wiedersehen Augustus AUF WIEDERSEHEN AUGUSTUS
MR. BEAUREGARDE: Wonka, who are those people?! WONKA: These, Mr. Beauregarde, are the Oompa Loompas! They mix my fudge.
WILLY WONKA
Onwards. Follow me. Hurry. We must hesitate without delay. No dillying. No dallying. No shillying. No shallying. Go! Go! Go! Stop.
Poor Augustus!
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
Poor Augustus? What about my machinery? And bones in the toffee. Disgusting.
(The remaining GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS, PARENTS, and GUARDIANS are shocked. They gasp again.) What? He’ll be fine. Why the long faces? Anyone want to go home?
GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS No!
WILLY WONKA
That’s the spirit, come along then, no wicked for the rest!
(#24 – THE MIXING ROOM begins.)
(WILLY WONKA)
Next room.
CHARLIE
Grandpa Joe, was it like this when you worked here?
GRANDPA JOE
I don’t know, Charlie. I don’t recognize any of this.
SCENE 10: THE MIXING ROOM
(In the middle of the room a giant vat, out of which protrudes a spaghetti of tubes and hatches. Bubbles. Bangs. Steam hisses. Sudden noises.)
WILLY WONKA
May I present The Mixing Room! This room is where I mix all the fruity essences that make my flavors. Ha ha! I put them all together in this vat and then I just see what comes out.
CHARLIE
It’s a giant mixing cup! I have one of those.
WILLY WONKA
Not one of these, you don’t.
(WONKA opens a hatch.)
(#25 – A FIREBALL-BANG! begins.)
(All gasp. WONKA slams the hatch shut.)
(WILLY WONKA)
It’s a dangerous business! Please! I insist! No touching, no meddling and absolutely no tasting without my express permission – agreed?
GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS, GUARDIANS
Agreed.
WILLY WONKA
My enemies would give their eyeteeth for just one glimpse of this room. These creations are for your eyes only. How would you like to see more quite delightfully silly ideas from me?
Yes.
GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS, GUARDIANS
VIOLET
Haven’t you got something I can chew?
WILLY WONKA
Chew?
I want gum.
VIOLET
MR. BEAUREGARDE
It’s what she’s famous for, Wonka.
WILLY WONKA
Well I don’t have gum but I do have this.
(#26 – G.U.M. begins.)
(WONKA opens a hatch and an object springs out. He shows them a product.)
(WILLY WONKA)
Gastro-molecular Uni-cellulose Mouth Mulch. Or G.U.M. It’s like gum because you chew it but unlike gum it contains all the flavor and nutrition of a full three-course meal with pie for dessert.
VIOLET
That sounds amazing!
WILLY WONKA
Doesn’t it?
It’s astonishing!
GRANDPA JOE
MR. BEAUREGARDE
This could completely revolutionize Violet’s brand!
WILLY WONKA
It could, Mr. Beauregarde, but it won’t.
VIOLET
Why not!
WILLY WONKA
There’s a problem with the blueberry pie.
MR. BEAUREGARDE
What sort of problem?
WILLY WONKA
Excess fructose in the fluid sacs.
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What?
GOLDEN TICKET WINNERS, GUARDIANS
WILLY WONKA
Too much juice. You get any other pie – pumpkin, Boston cream, mince – you’re fine. But if you get blueberry – berry, berry bad.
VIOLET
I don’t care about dessert, Wonka. I care about fame, and this stuff’s gonna make me huge!
(#27 – BLUEBERRY PIE begins.)
WILLY WONKA
Violet, no!
(VIOLET takes the gum.)
MR. BEAUREGARDE
You tell ’em, Vi!
Film me, Daddy.
(He does. She chews.)
VIOLET
MR. BEAUREGARDE
Tell the people what you taste, Vi.
VIOLET
Chicken soup – it’s delicious!
WILLY WONKA
Mr. Beauregarde, it’s really just a prototype. It’s still very dangerous to eat.
VIOLET
Roast beef and mashed potato!
MR. BEAUREGARDE
Don’t worry, Wonka; we’ll cut a deal on the image rights.
WILLY WONKA
Please, Violet, spit it out.
VIOLET
Spit it out! Don’t you know who I am? Oh!
MR. BEAUREGARDE
What is it, Vi?
Pie!
VIOLET
MR. BEAUREGARDE
What kind of pie – Vi?
Blueberry.
Blueberry!
VIOLET
MRS. TEAVEE
VIOLET (gulp)
Uh-oh.
What?
I swallowed it.
MR. BEAUREGARDE
VIOLET
WILLY WONKA
I’m sure it’ll be fine. (WONKA goes to the speaking tube, his cane.) Ooompaaas! We have a potential fructose expansion incident in The Mixing Room.
VIOLET
(starting to grow)
I don’t feel so good.
MR. BEAUREGARDE
Wonka, what’s happening to her?
MRS. TEAVEE
She’s blowing up!
She’s getting huge!
One more kid destroyed!
VERUCA
MIKE
VIOLET
I need to go to the bathroom.
GRANDPA JOE
This can’t be right.
(VIOLET continues to grow and turns purple.)
MR. BEAUREGARDE
Wonka, you’ve got to stop this!
(#28 – YOU GOT WHACHA WANT begins.)
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory JR.
You Got Whacha Want
YOU GOT WHACHA WANT
WONKA: Well, I admit Violet turning into a blueberry was not in your plan, but you always DID want her to be huge. VIOLET,
BEAUREGARDE: NO!
WONKA: Oh dear!
VIOLET: Daddy, help me!!
MR. BEAUREGARDE: Wonka, turn her back. I can't sell a blueberry!
Ooo,doo,doo,doo (OOMPA LOOMPAS:)
(OOMPA LOOMPAS) (offstage)
Pop!
(#29 – VIOLET POPS begins.)
(She explodes offstage. A wave of purple gunk sploshes onto the stage.)
(A moment. MR. BEAUREGARDE enters covered in purple gunk.)
She exploded!
MR. BEAUREGARDE
WILLY WONKA
A moment in the spotlight and then – alas – her bubble burst. Mr. Beauregarde, follow the Oompas down to the Juicing Room and scoop what’s left of her out of the pulping ponds.
MR. BEAUREGARDE (exiting)
She exploded...
Very sad.
WILLY WONKA
(#30 – SHE EXPLODED begins.)
(WILLY WONKA)
People to go! Places to see! Onwards!
CHARLIE
Poor Violet.
GRANDPA JOE
Mr. Wonka really needs to go back to the drawing board with that gum.
SCENE 11: THE INVISIBLE CORRIDORS
WILLY WONKA
Stick together. There’s no “me” in team.
(All gather except MIKE.)
(WILLY WONKA)
Mike? Are you doing yoga?
(MIKE waves his phone in the air.)
MIKE
I’m trying to get a signal. This tour’s boring.
WILLY WONKA
Oh dear. No signal? May I help.
(WONKA takes MIKE’s phone. WONKA stomps on it.)
I think that signal’s very clear. Don’t you?
MIKE
What am I supposed to play now?
WILLY WONKA
Maracas.
(WONKA shakes Mike’s broken phone.)
Chin up! Next we’re going to visit the special cupboards where I keep all my secret ingredients.
Wow!
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
But, to get there, first we must pass through this maze full of deadly traps.
MIKE
There’s no maze full of deadly traps here.
WILLY WONKA
Oh yes there is, Mike, it’s here all right, but it must be believed to be seen. The door’s right here. I’ll just punch in the code.
(WONKA punches a code. The ensemble offstage creates the soundscape of the code. WONKA opens the invisible door.)
This way, please.
You mimed that.
Oh really?
You’re sad.
MIKE
WILLY WONKA
MIKE
(MIKE walks forward briskly. He hits his head. Clang!)
WILLY WONKA
Watch your head, Marcel.
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That must’ve hurt!
MR. SALT
WILLY WONKA
Now you wanna take your first left through the sticky toffee swamp, stay on the marshmallows, that way you won’t lose your shoes.
(WONKA uses stepping stones to cross. The offstage ensemble creates the Foley soundscape, which sounds like WONKA crossing through a sticky toffee swamp.)
Then you wanna take a hard right through the wind tunnel –hold on to your hats!
(Wind blows hard into WONKA’s face. Wind sounds are created by the ensemble. WONKA struggles against it— Then, WONKA recovers, and the wind blows up from below, à la Marilyn Monroe.)
Then you wanna duckwalk nice and low through frying pan alley.
(WONKA crouches low and duckwalks through as the ensemble creates high-pitched, quick, “ding ding ding” sound effects.)
Until finally you open the portal with a strike of the gong! (WONKA strikes the gong and walks through. The sound is created by the ensemble.)
See? Easy as pie. (aside)
Too soon?
(back to the group)
Now you, Mike.
(MIKE ducks and enters. MIKE steps in the toffee swamp, and the ensemble repeats sticky toffee swamp Foley sounds. WONKA comments on MIKE’s progress through the maze.)
MIKE
Eww. Yuck. You’re such a loser, Wonka.
WILLY WONKA
What was that, Mike? I didn’t quite catch that.
(MIKE yells, but his voice is drowned out by the wind, which knocks him off his feet. The ensemble creates the wind sound effects.)
MIKE
I said!
(Another blast of wind knocks MIKE over.)
WILLY WONKA
Out of the fire into the frying pans.
(MIKE turns to frying pan alley and gets hit three times. Ensemble creates Foley sound effects.)
Ow! Ow! Ow!
MIKE
WILLY WONKA
Don’t forget the gong. (Reluctantly, MIKE picks up the imaginary stick.) Hit.
(MIKE hits. Gong sounds wonky – the ensemble creates this sound effect. It knocks MIKE over.)
Ow.
MIKE
WILLY WONKA
Come on, everyone! Hurry hurry. This factory won’t tour itself, you know.
(All cross one by one. Each negotiates the maze in their own peculiar way. Ensemble creates Foley sound as each character crosses. WONKA comments on their progress. In a blizzard of squelches, clangs, ows, and gongs—) All safe – no limbs lost – only superficial bruising.
(Only GRANDPA JOE has not passed.)
GRANDPA JOE
I’m not sure I can bend down that low, Mr. Wonka. My old back can’t take it.
WILLY WONKA
Oh dear. We can’t leave Grandpa Joe behind. I tell you what, forget the secret cupboards.
(WONKA cuts off ensemble, and all noise stops.) Who needs them? Why don’t we visit The Nut Room? That’s so much more fun. It’s over here. Walk this way.
(WONKA marches straight across the space where the maze was. All hesitate. Then they all follow gingerly, afraid of surprises.)
He’s loopy!
He’s bats!
He’s bananas!
He’s crazy!
MRS. TEAVEE
MR. SALT
VERUCA
MIKE
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(MIKE is last. He takes a few steps, distrustful.)
WILLY WONKA
Wait for it...
(MIKE’s hit again and knocked to the floor. The “DONG” sound effect is from the ensemble.)
Oh no, Veruca, Jeremy is not a cyootsie woootsie squirrel. Jeremy works in The Sorting Room, with the sorting squirrels. I use them to sort the good nuts from the bad.
CHARLIE
How do they know which from which?
WILLY WONKA
Squirrels have a very highly developed sense of right and wrong.
VERUCA
Squirrel! Daddy! I Want It Now! Squirrel! Now!
MR. SALT
Okay, Wonka. How much do you want for one of these rodents?
WILLY WONKA
They’re not for sale.
VERUCA
Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel! Squirrel!
MR. SALT
Name your price, Wonka. I’ll double it.
VERUCA
Just one squiwaw for wittaw Vewuca?
(VERUCA hesitates. Angry eyes.)
No? No one. Says no. To Veruca Salt! (#32 – VERUCA’S NUTCRACKER: SWEET! begins.)
(VERUCA runs to The Sorting Room. They all follow.)
(We arrive in The Sorting Room and see SQUIRRELS at work.)
MR. SALT: Verooshka wait!
WONKA: Wait! Stay back! It's simply not safe to go in there! Con fuoco
You can't stop me now, Wonka!
(SCENE 12: THE NUT
runs in.)
(VERUCA reaches out to a SQUIRREL, it quickly becomes a nightmarish ballet.)
(#33 – VERUCA (PLAYOFF) begins.)
MR. SALT
What just happened?
She was torn apart!
MRS. TEAVEE
CHARLIE
The squirrels must have thought she was a bad nut.
WILLY WONKA
They cracked her and shelled her and sent her right down the bad nut chute.
MR. SALT
Can you get her back?
WILLY WONKA
Too late, I’m afraid.
(from off) Daaaadddyyyyy!
Verooshka! Papa’s coming!
(MR. SALT runs off.)
VERUCA
MR. SALT
WILLY WONKA
Don’t worry, the Oompas will find a way to stick her back together. They’re a whizz with a glue stick.
MRS. TEAVEE
Mr. Wonka, that girl doesn’t need a glue stick. She needs emergency surgery.
WILLY WONKA
It’ll be fine. And if not – well, no time to mourn. That’s not what Veruca would have wanted. And Veruca always got what she wanted, didn’t she? We must move on.
(#34 – WE MUST MOVE ON begins.)
(WONKA exits. MIKE and MRS. TEAVEE follow. CHARLIE and GRANDPA JOE are left behind.)
CHARLIE
Grandpa Joe. You don’t think Veruca’s really been torn apart, do you?
GRANDPA JOE
Right now, Charlie, I think anything’s possible.
CHARLIE
Mr. Wonka wouldn’t do that.
SCENE 13: THE TV ROOM
(They all arrive in the television room. A large blinking, flickering pod-like contraption sits center with a giant chocolate bar atop.)
WILLY WONKA
May I present, Chocolate Television.
(#35 – MATCH GAME begins.)
(WILLY WONKA)
Normal television sends pictures through space, but Chocolate Television goes one better. It sends chocolate through space.
That’s impossible.
MIKE
WILLY WONKA
Allow me to demonstrate.
CHARLIE
Why does the chocolate have to be so big?
WILLY WONKA
The chocolate has to be very, very big, Charlie, because television makes everything so very, very small. Stand back! Broadcast in 10. Close-up camera 6. Pull back Camera 4. Remote Telecast in five, four, two, three, one. Action!
(WONKA presses a remote. A blinding flash. The giant chocolate is gone. The OOMPAS LOOMPAS cheer and applaud.)
It disappeared!
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
On the contrary, the chocolate hasn’t disappeared. It’s all around us right now in billions and billions of tiny microscopic particles. Just waiting to be reassembled inside this screen – all we need to do now, is find the right channel!
(He gives MRS. TEAVEE a remote control.)
A volunteer! Mrs. Teavee, channel 209.
(MRS. TEAVEE looks at it – confused, befuddled.)
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MRS. TEAVEE
Ok 209... Do I hit ‘Ok,’ ‘Select,’ or ‘Enter’? Now I’ve turned on the Apple TV.
MIKE
Oh give it to me, Useless!
(MIKE zaps the remote at the TV. Snow resolves into a vision of a chocolate bar on the screen.)
WILLY WONKA
Et voilà! What do you think? Not bad, eh?
MIKE
That’s not Chocolate Television, Wonka. That’s chocolate on television. I can see that any day of the week.
Pick it up, Mike.
What?
WILLY WONKA
MIKE
WILLY WONKA
Go ahead – just reach into the screen.
(MIKE hesitates. The OOMPA LOOMPAS nod.)
MIKE
No way! If I touch that I’m gonna go down some chute or something.
WILLY WONKA
Charlie?
(CHARLIE hesitates. The OOMPA LOOMPAS gesture to the TV. CHARLIE puts his hand into the screen. He picks up the chocolate bar and pulls it out of the TV.)
It’s real.
Taste it!
It’s really real!
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
CHARLIE
GRANDPA JOE
That is truly remarkable.
MIKE
Hey Wonka, if you can put chocolate on TV, can you do it with a person too?
WILLY WONKA
I suppose I could, but there might be some technical issues.
(MIKE grabs the remote.)
MIKE
I’m doing it.
MRS. TEAVEE
Mikey, what are you doing?
WILLY WONKA
(sarcastic)
Mike, no! Stop!
(MIKE jumps into the pod.)
MIKE
I’m not just gonna be on TV, I’m gonna be in TV! Welcome to the Mike Teavee TV Show!
(#36 – MIKE DISAPPEARS begins.)
(MIKE points the remote at a curtain, which raises in front of him as he disappears.)
MRS. TEAVEE
Oh my God, Wonka – He’s gone!
WILLY WONKA
No he hasn’t gone, Mrs. Teavee. He’s all around us now in billions and billions of tiny microscopic particles. He should be on channel 209. 209. Interesting... (into speaking tube, his cane) Oompas, we’ve lost him. We’re going to need more screens.
MRS. TEAVEE
More screens? That’s the last thing Mikey needs.
(#37 – VIDIOTS begins.)
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VIDIOTS
WONKA: This old thing doesn't have enough channels. We'll need to search cable, satellite, the internet. It'll be Þne.
MRS. TEAVEE: The Oompa Loompas are singing again. That's never a good sign.
MRS. TEAVEE: Mr. Wonka, where is he? WONKA: I'm looking. I'm looking!
WONKA: So many channels –nothing good on any of them.
WONKA: Ah, Animal Planet! The Oompas do love a nature documentary.
LOOMPAS:)
MRS. TEAVEE: Can't we just Google him? (MIKE appears on screens.) (MRS. TEAVEE:) There he is!
WONKA: Gotcha!
onlyviewsonlaptopscreens.
MIKE: You can't catch me, old man!
(OOMPA LOOMPAS:)
his (OOMPA LOOMPAS:)
WONKA: Mike! Get out of there –before it's too late!
MRS. TEAVEE: I've never seen him so happy.
allhislimbs are turningnumb.
(#38 – VIDIOTS (PLAYOFF) begins.)
(MIKE is now on the TV screen.)
MIKE
Eeek! (Help! Help! I’m stuck!)
MRS. TEAVEE Mike Mikey?
WILLY WONKA
Show’s over, Mike. Fetch him out of the TV, Mrs. Teavee.
(MRS. TEAVEE lifts MIKE out of the screen.)
MIKE
Eeek! (Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!)
(MRS. TEAVEE holds MIKE up.)
MRS. TEAVEE
My God, Mr. Wonka – what’s happened to him?
WILLY WONKA
He shrunk to fit the screen.
MIKE
Eeek! (Oh no!)
(MIKE yells and jumps about.)
CHARLIE
What’s he saying?
MIKE
Eeek! (Heeeeloo?!? Can anybody hear me?!? You better fix me, man! I am not happy!!)
MRS. TEAVEE
He’s saying – now I’m small my mommy can look after me all day, isn’t that right, Mike? Just like I did when you were a little baby.
(MIKE attacks her face. She puts him in her purse.)
CHARLIE
Will he ever go back to normal?
WILLY WONKA
No one ever goes back to normal after they’ve been on TV. It’s a well-known fact.
MRS. TEAVEE
Thank you, Mr. Wonka.
(to MIKE)
Say, “Thank you, Mr. Wonka.”
(MRS. TEAVEE leaves with MIKE in her handbag.)
Only one child left.
WILLY WONKA
GRANDPA
JOE
The rate you’re losing children, Mr. Wonka, I’m beginning to think Charlie should be worried.
WILLY WONKA
You’re right. This tour’s been a disaster.
CHARLIE
I’m enjoying it. I love seeing how chocolate is made.
You do?
Of course I do.
WILLY WONKA
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
Well. In that case. There is one last room I wanted to show you. A room full of everything you could ever desire. What do you think? Would you like to see it?
Yes, please!
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
Excellent! Then climb up the ladder of light. I’ll turn it on for you.
(#39 – THE IMAGINING ROOM begins.)
(A light ladder appears up to the roof.)
(WILLY WONKA)
We must climb up, up, up all the way to the roof!
(WONKA disappears into the flies. CHARLIE and GRANDPA JOE climb the ladders.)
GRANDPA JOE
Did you hear that, Charlie? ‘A room full of everything.’ You know what that means, don’t you?
CHARLIE
No, Grandpa Joe, what?
GRANDPA JOE
It means you’ve won. The grand prize. A lifetime’s supply of chocolate!
CHARLIE
Do you really think so?
SCENE 14: THE IMAGINING ROOM
(A darkened empty room with a view over the city. WONKA stands at a desk, on which lies a large notebook. He opens the notebook. He looks at it, ruefully.)
WILLY WONKA
Welcome to The Imagining Room.
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CHARLIE
It’s completely empty.
WILLY WONKA
Exactly. It’s as empty as a blank sheet of paper. This is where I come to imagine. Every night, I come up here to look out over the town and wait... and then when an idea arrives, I open my notebook and draw.
CHARLIE
You have a notebook too?
WILLY WONKA
Of course.
(WONKA flicks through the pages of the book.)
All the ideas I’ve ever had are in this book, and most of the ones I haven’t had as well.
(CHARLIE is awestruck—)
CHARLIE
The ideas you haven’t had?
WILLY WONKA
I keep those in the blank pages... at the back.
CHARLIE
May I see?
No!
WILLY WONKA
(WONKA slams shut the notebook.)
CHARLIE
But Mr. Wonka!
WILLY WONKA
Nobody gets to see my secrets.
CHARLIE
But I’m not a spy, Mr. Wonka.
GRANDPA JOE
Charlie’s an inventor too, you know.
WILLY WONKA
That’s what they all say.
CHARLIE
But—
WILLY WONKA
No buts! That’s it. Show’s over. We’re done here. If you don’t mind, excuse me, but I must be getting on. I’ve got a factory to run.
(on his way out)
The Oompas will see you out – Adieu.
GRANDPA JOE
But Mr. Wonka!
What?
WILLY WONKA
GRANDPA JOE
What about Charlie’s Grand Prize?
WILLY WONKA
What Grand Prize?
GRANDPA JOE
His lifetime’s supply of Wonka candy.
WILLY WONKA
Oh that.
(He ponders a moment.)
Here, have this.
A Gobstopper?
GRANDPA JOE
WILLY WONKA
Eat it slowly, it’ll last a lifetime.
(He gives the Gobstopper to CHARLIE and starts out.)
GRANDPA JOE
That’s not right, Mr. Wonka. You’ve shown us wonders we can hardly believe. And you promised a lifetime’s supply of Wonka candy. Not a measly Gobstopper.
WILLY WONKA
Measly? Measly? How dare you insult my work!
CHARLIE
Stop! Grandpa Joe... this factory tour is the most amazing present I’ve ever had. I don’t want anything else. Really.
Really?
Really?
GRANDPA JOE
WILLY WONKA
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I promise.
(A moment.)
Well if you say so.
CHARLIE
GRANDPA JOE
WILLY WONKA
Good. Now, Mr. Bucket – if you’d care to step into my office, there are a few matters for the two of us, confidentiality agreements, health waivers, and so forth, and then you can both be on your way. Charlie, this is grown-up’s business –perhaps it’s best if you stay here. You don’t mind, do you?
CHARLIE
No, sir. I don’t mind.
WILLY WONKA
Good. You wait there. But whatever you do, don’t touch anything. You have seen what happens to children who break the rules in my factory, haven’t you?
CHARLIE
Yes, Mr. Wonka.
(A moment. WONKA and GRANDPA JOE exit. CHARLIE is alone. CHARLIE glances at Wonka’s notebook. He tries not to look at it. Then goes to the desk. CHARLIE looks round, checks he’s on his own. He tries to resist. He can’t.)
Just one look.
(#40 – THE NOTEBOOK begins. CHARLIE opens the notebook and reacts to the pictures, each on a different page.)
(CHARLIE)
(imitating Wonka each time)
‘Don’t drink from the chocolate lagoon!’
(CHARLIE turns a page.)
‘May I present – The Mixing Room! Bad Nut!’
(CHARLIE giggles and turns a page.)
‘The chocolate has to be very, very big, Charlie, because television makes everything so very, very small.’
(CHARLIE turns a page – it’s blank.)
A blank page!
(CHARLIE hesitates. Inside the notebook CHARLIE finds a quill. A moment – he draws. As CHARLIE draws he speaks –and pictures appear around him.)
How about... ice cream which is hot, so you can eat it on cold days – Mom would love that! Or Fizzy Lifting Juice for Grandpa Joe – drink it and the bubbles make you fly. Or...
(Silent, unseen by CHARLIE, WONKA comes back in...)
Or what, Charlie?
(CHARLIE stops.)
Mr. Wonka!
WILLY WONKA
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
You just can’t help yourself, can you?
(WONKA takes his book and goes to his desk.)
CHARLIE
CHARLIE: Mr. Wonka, have I done something wrong?
Mr. Wonka, have I done something wrong?
WONKA: Strike that and reverse it, Charlie. You've done something right.
CHARLIE: Right?
WILLY WONKA
Charlie. You’ve done something right.
WONKA: Oh Charlie, you've won. [GO]
Right?
Rubato q = 98 Colla Voce
CHARLIE
WILLY WONKA
Oh, Charlie, you’ve won.
(#41 – THE VIEW FROM HERE begins.)
The View From Here
THE VIEW FROM HERE
CHARLIE: Another Gobstopper?
WONKA: No.
CHARLIE: A lifetime supply of sweets?
WONKA: Better.
CHARLIE: What could possibly be better than a lifetime supply of sweets?
WONKA: Let me show you. Rubato
(A moment. A glass elevator appears. SCENE 15: THE ELEVATOR.)
(WONKA:) Welcome aboard my great glass elevator. I haven't been in this thing for years. Let's see if it still works. Push that button.
CHARLIE: The one marked "don't push"?
WONKA: That's the one.
CHARLIE: Something crazy is going to happen now, isn't it?
WONKA: How did you guess?
CHARLIE: I love it when crazy things happen.
WONKA: So do I.
(CHARLIE pushes the button. The elevator rises.)
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and
WONKA: That's the one.
CHARLIE: Something crazy is going to happen now, isn't it?
WONKA: How did you guess?
CHARLIE: I love it when crazy things happen.
WONKA: So do I.
(CHARLIE pushes the button. The elevator rises.) Rubato
WONKA: Look – Charlie – down there – my factory, do you see?
CHARLIE: Yes, Mr. Wonka.
WONKA: I love my factory, Charlie. I love it more than anything in the world.
CHARLIE: So do I, Mr. Wonka, so do I.
WONKA: Well, I'm very glad you said that, Charlie. Very glad. And do you want to know why?
CHARLIE: Why?
WONKA: Because, my Chocolate Factory is your grand prize.
CHARLIE: What?
WONKA: I'm giving it to you.
CHARLIE: But, Mr. Wonka, why do you want to give away your factory?
WONKA: Charlie, I can't keep running my factory forever. I have to give it to someone new.
CHARLIE: But, Mr. Wonka, why do you want to give away your factory?
WONKA: Charlie, I can't keep running my factory forever. I have to give it to someone new.
(WONKA:) Someone good and honest and kind and who loves to mix things up.
(WONKA takes a letter from his pocket. It's folded like a paper plane.) And that someone, Charlie Bucket, is you.
CHARLIE: My letter!
SCENE 16: OUTSIDE THE FACTORY
WILLY WONKA
Goodness me – is that the time? Come, come, dear boy, we have a factory to run.
(#42 – FINALE begins.)
Finale
FINALE
(WONKA turns to leave. CHARLIE hesitates.)
(WONKA:) Something wrong?
CHARLIE: My family...
WONKA: They're already inside! The Oompa Loompas have turned the whole top ßoor into a Bucket Palace! I even gave Grandpa Joe his old job back. (WONKA gives CHARLIE his top hat.)
CHARLIE: Mr. Wonka, you know, I really would have been happy with the Gobstopper.
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WONKA: Yeah right. Although, it was a GOOD Gobstopper wasn't it? Ooh, know what would make it even better???
CHARLIE: A marshmallow crème center?
(WONKA bows to CHARLIE.)
WONKA: I was going to say cheese, but we'll go with yours. (WONKA enters the factory.) Come on, Bucket, you've got daydreaming to do. (A moment. CHARLIE takes it all in. He turns to the audience.)
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words to know from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory JR.
Accompanied – escorted or chaperoned by someone.
Adieu – a French word for “goodbye.”
“Alas – her bubble burst” – sadly, the outcome was not what she hoped it would be.
Begat – coming from or bringing about.
Catastrophe – a disaster.
Confidentiality agreement – a legal document that states a person will not share specified sensitive information with anyone.
Confectionary – a sweet treat, like chocolate.
Debutante – an upper-class young lady.
Delectable – delicious.
Delumptious – a made-up word to express that something tastes good.
Ecstasy – feeling overwhelming joy or happiness.
Et voilà – a French phrase meaning “and there is it”; similar to saying, “Ta-da!”
Forswear legerdemain – to avoid deception, trickery, or lying.
Franchise – a store that is part of a wider network of stores with the same name.
Fructose – a simple sugar naturally found in fruits, honey, and some vegetables.
Gastronome – someone who is enthusiastic about tasting and eating food.
Incognito – in disguise.
Inheritance – items, property, or money that are passed down from one person to another, usually an older family member passing items to a younger family member.
Lo and Behold – “look and see”; an expression of surprise or wonder.
Measly – a small or unimpressive item or number of items.
Meddling – unwanted interference.
Microscopic particles – very small pieces that one would need a microscope to see.
Passé – no longer popular; old-fashioned.
Prototype – the very first version of an item or machine before it is in regular use.
Relic – an ancient object.
Renowned – famous.
Rockefeller – John D. Rockefeller was an American businessman and philanthropist.
Secondhand – an item that has been previously used.
Stratosphere – a layer of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Unleashed – let loose.
“Upon whose infant brow will dame fate place her final golden kiss?” – “Who will win the golden ticket?”
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glossary
actor: A person who performs as a character in a play or musical.
author: A writer of a play or musical, also known as a playwright. A musical’s authors include the book writer, a composer, and a lyricist.
blocking: The actors’ movement in a play or musical, not including the choreography. The director usually assigns blocking during rehearsals.
book writer: One of the authors of a musical. The book writer writes the lines (dialogue) and the stage directions. Also called the librettist.
cast: The performers in a show.
cheating out: Turning oneself slightly toward the house when performing so the audience may better see one’s face and hear one’s lines.
choreographer: A person who creates and teaches the dance numbers in a musical.
composer: A person who writes music for a musical.
creative team: The author(s), director, choreographer, music director and designers for a play or musical.
cross: When an actor onstage moves toward or away from another actor or object.
dialogue: A conversation between two or more characters.
director: A person who provides the artistic vision, coordinates the creative elements, and stages the play.
downstage: The portion of the stage closest to the audience. The opposite of upstage.
house: The area of the theater where the audience sits to watch the show.
house left: The left side of the theater from the audience’s perspective. If something is located “house left,” it is to the left side of the audience as they are seated in the theater.
house right: The right side of the theater from the audience’s perspective. If something is located “house right,” it is to the right side of the audience as they are seated in the theater.
lines: The dialogue spoken by the actors.
lyricist: A person who writes the lyrics of a musical. The lyricist works with a composer to create songs.
lyrics: The words of a song.
monologue: A dramatic speech by one actor.
music director: A person who is in charge of teaching the songs to the cast and orchestra and maintaining the quality of the performed score.
musical: A play with songs that are used to tell a story.
objective: A goal or purpose to be achieved.
off-book: The actor’s ability to perform his or her memorized lines without holding the script.
offstage: Any area out of view of the audience. Also called backstage.
onstage: Anything on the stage and within view of the audience is said to be onstage.
opening night: The first official performance of a production, after which the show is frozen, meaning no further changes are made, and reviews may be published.
play: A type of dramatic writing meant to be performed live on a stage. A musical is one kind of play.
protagonist: The main character in a musical. The action centers around this character.
raked stage: A stage which is raised slightly upstage so that it slants towards the audience.
rehearsal: A meeting during which the cast learns and practices the show.
script: 1) The written words that make up a show, including spoken words, stage directions, and lyrics. 2) The book that contains those words.
speed-through: To speak through the dialogue of a scene as quickly as possible. A speed-through rehearsal helps actors memorize their lines, and it infuses energy into the pacing of a scene.
stage directions: Words in the script that describe the actions of the characters.
stage left: The left side of the stage, from the actor’s perspective. The same side of the theater as house right.
stage manager: A person who is responsible for keeping all rehearsals and performances on schedule.
stage right: The right side of the stage, from the actor’s perspective. The same side of the theater as house left.
theater: when theater is spelled with “er,” it is often referring to the physical space where theatre is performed.
theatre: when theatre is spelled with “re,” it is commonly referring to theatre as an art form.
upstage: The part of the stage farthest from the audience. The opposite of downstage.
warm-ups: Exercises at the beginning of a rehearsal or before a performance that prepare actors’ voices and bodies.
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory JR.
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Contributing Editors
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Susan Fuller
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