Our Spring 2024 Main Stage Show

Performance Dates

May 3, 4, 5 | May 10, 12

Fri, May 3 at 7:30pm & Sat, May 4 at 7:30pm | 
Sun, May 5 at 3:00pm
Fri, May 10 at 7:30pm | 
Sun, May 12 at 3:00pm

Character meet and greets will be from 2:15 – 2:45 at Sunday performances.

Tickets

Tickets for this event will go on sale early spring 2024.

Tickets will be available for purchase online. A 3.5% convenience fee will be added to online and credit card payments.

Group Sales

Purchase 12 or more tickets on for a single performance and automatically get 10% off your order.

In-Person Box Office Sales

Purchase tickets at our Box Office at the theater at the Brosnan Building at 158 Laurel Avenue, Northport with credit card, cash or check. (A ticket service fee will apply to all credit card orders.)

Box Office days/hours will be announced closer to the show dates.

Advertise in the program

Contact us for more information.

This Community Playhouse of Northport production of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Huntington Arts Council.

Willy Wonka
The mysterious title character. He is charming, enigmatic, charismatic, and slightly sinister. A chocolatier who guides children and their parents on a tour of his factory. He is looking for someone new to take over his candy empire.
Gender: Male
Age: 40-60
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: G2

Candy Man
A local candy vendor. He leads the children in praising the joys of candy.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 50
Vocal range top: D4
Vocal range bottom: A2

Phineous Trout
A reporter covering the Golden Ticket story.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 50
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: B2

Charlie Bucket
Our story’s shy, earnest protagonist. From a modest home life, he is humble and noncompetitive while maintaining a sense of wonder about the world. One of the Golden Ticket winners whose honesty and general good nature win Wonka over.
Gender: Male
Age: 9 to 12
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: G2

Mrs. Bucket
Charlie Bucket’s nurturing mother. She is always trying to maintain an energetic positivity.
Gender: Female
Age: 40’s-50’s
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3

Mr. Bucket
Charlie Bucket’s nurturing father. He is always trying to maintain an energetic positivity.
Gender: Male
Age: 40’s-50’s
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: B2

Grandpa Joe
A caring, patient, and kindhearted man. Loving Grandfather to Charlie Bucket. He accompanies Charlie to Willy Wonka’s factory, and it gives him a new burst of youthful vigor.
Gender: Male
Age: 60 to 80
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: Bb2

Augustus Gloop
A gluttonous German boy. Cheerful and jolly, he defines himself by his ability to eat mass quantities of food. One of the Golden Ticket winners whose constant overeating is enabled and encouraged by Mrs. Gloop.
Gender: Male
Age: 10 to 15
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: B2

Mrs. Gloop
A plump, jolly German woman with a bustling personality. Augustus Gloop’s overindulgent mother.
Gender: Female
Age: 40’s-50‘s
Vocal range top: E4
Vocal range bottom: B3

Veruca Salt
A wealthy, spoiled Brit. She is accustomed to having her father indulge her every whim and desire. One of the Golden Ticket winners, she is subjected to the squirrels’ nut chute.
Gender: Female
Age: 10 to 15
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: G3

Mr. Salt
A wealthy British upperclassman who regularly flaunts his wealth and privilege. Father to Veruca Salt who shamelessly spoils his daughter.
Gender: Male
Age: 40 to 60
Vocal range top: E4
Vocal range bottom: D3

Mike Teavee
An obnoxious, hyperactive child addicted to television, video games, and the internet. One of the Golden Ticket winners and Ms. Teavee’s son.
Gender: Male
Age: 9 to 14
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: G2

Ms. Teavee
An old-fashioned housewife. She is Mike Teavee’s permissive and clueless mother.
Gender: Female
Age: 40’s-50’s
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: B3

Violet Beauregarde
A brassy girl with a competitive streak. Violet seizes every opportunity to show off. She turns into a giant blueberry.
Gender: Female
Age: 9 to 14
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: G3

Mrs. Beauregarde
Violet’s enthusiastic “helicopter parent” who focuses all her attention on her daughter. She indulges Violet’s worst competitive impulses.
Gender: Female
Age: 40’s-50’s
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: D4

Charlie’s other grandparents
Grandma Josephine
Grandpa George
Grandma Georgina

Candy Man Featured Kids
James
Age 9-14
Lines and singing

Matilda
Ages 9-14
Lines and singing

Featured Oompa Loompas
Oompa Loompa 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ages 9-16

Kid Ensemble
Candy Man Kids; Squirrels; Oompa-Loompas,

Adult Ensemble
A Chorus of Cooks, Adult Villagers

Rehearsals

Rehearsals will primarily be Monday thru Thursday from 7:00pm – 9:00pm and will start the week after auditions. There will occassionally be rehearsals on Friday evenings and possibly during the day on Saturday closer to the show. Rehearsals during tech week may end at 10:00pm or later.

Cast and Crew Requirements

Cast and crew must download, fill out and submit the documents/forms below. Participants ages 16 & over will be required to volunteer one shift to help the theater operate.  Parents of children will also be asked to serve one volunteer shift either during the rehearsal process or during the show run.