Charlie and the chocolate factory is one of my favorite Roald Dahl stories. I remember when I was a kid at Woodlands Elementary School in 5th Grade my teacher Mrs. Molly read the book to not only me but to all of the students in her class. Around the same time we did a class project where we made a float for the story book parade and we have to draw some pictures of different scenes from the book. Then one year later in 2009 when I was in 6th Grade I did a school play where my principal Mr. McCormick played Grandpa Joe and I was the giant Wonka Bar passing out the programs and operating the curtains. Fast forward to 2019 I saw the stage show. It started in London's West End in 2013 and it's still running on Broadway. Now the national tour has landed in Seattle's Paramount Theatre. I like the show and it is a blend of both of the 1971 Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory movie and the 2005 Charlie and the chocolate factory movie but there is one complaint of what I don't like about the show is they used adult actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike. Which makes the show look kind of weird because adults don't act like nasty kids. A lot of audiences who saw the show on Broadway and on tour in the U.S. are never going to notice that but for me that really bugs me because when I saw School Of Rock and Matilda The Musical when they were on tour in the U.S. they had child actors on stage. Out of all of the performances of Charlie and the chocolate factory live on stage I like the London's West End version a lot better because they have the child actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike which makes more since because we need kids to act like nasty kids. Plus when the show started in London they know what they were doing for the casting of child actors in the show to play the four nasty kids and they got it right. Compare to the Broadway and National Tour versions they used adult actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike which doesn't make any since and they got the casting of the characters in the show wrong. But still I want child actors in the show to play the four nasty kids. Every time they do a stage play of Charlie and the chocolate factory in America after the success of the West End version the Broadway/National Tour and UK Tour versions always get's the show wrong.
The Broadway and U.S. Tour versions of Charlie and the chocolate factory needs to pay attention more on the West End version and do more research on their auditioning process for child actors to be in the show because Broadway is being so lazy when it comes to casting to play the characters in the show. The show did great on Broadway and on tour in the U.S. it's just it wasn't the right casting. Other than that another con about the show is that it had no exit song for Violet after she chewed the three cores dinner chewing gum and the show is going from kid friendly to dark when during the Nutcracker Suite the squirrels tore Verruca apart. I'm going to give the Broadway and National Tour version of Charlie and the chocolate factory a 7 out of 10 with the exception of the adult actors playing the four nasty kids, making the show dark, no exit song for Violet and the squirrels taring Verruca apart. When the show is back on Broadway and back on tour in the U.S. I hope they will correct this in the future and allow child actors on Broadway and National Tour to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike in Charlie and the chocolate factory. They also need to make the show less dark, more kid friendly and make it a little more like the West End version and the 1971 and 2005 films.
Not only that, if the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle or any other Theatre in the United States and the United Kingdom want to recreate their own stage production of Charlie and the chocolate factory and make it a better version and get a revival on Broadway and on tour in the UK and USA then they not only they need to include child actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet, Mike and Charlie but here are the songs they should use for act 1 and act 2 from the West End version, Broadway version, stage school/community theatre productions of Willy Wonka and one song I made up for the Nut Room scene.
Act 1:
1. Opening
2. Golden Age of Chocolate
3. The Candy Man
4. Almost Nearly Perfect
5. The Amazing Fantastical History Of Mr. Willy Wonka
6. News Of Augustus/More Of Him To Love
7. News Of Verruca/When Verruca Says
8. Think Positive
9. News Of Violet/The Queen Of Pop
10. News Of Mike/It's Teavee Time!
11. Cheer Up Charlie
12. Think Positive (Reprise)
13. I've Got A Golden Ticket/Grandpa Joe
14. It Must Be Believed To Be Seen
Act 2:
1. Strike That, Reverse It
2. The Chocolate Room/Simply Second Nature
3. Augustus' Downfall/Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop
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Charlie and the chocolate factory is one of my favorite Roald Dahl stories. I remember when I was a kid at Woodlands Elementary School in 5th Grade my teacher Mrs. Molly read the book to not only me but to all of the students in her class. Around the same time we did a class project where we made a float for the story book parade and we have to draw some pictures of different scenes from the book. Then one year later in 2009 when I was in 6th Grade I did a school play where my principal Mr. McCormick played Grandpa Joe and I was the giant Wonka Bar passing out the programs and operating the curtains. Fast forward to 2019 I saw the stage show. It started in London's West End in 2013 and it's still running on Broadway. Now the national tour has landed in Seattle's Paramount Theatre. I like the show and it is a blend of both of the 1971 Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory movie and the 2005 Charlie and the chocolate factory movie but there is one complaint of what I don't like about the show is they used adult actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike. Which makes the show look kind of weird because adults don't act like nasty kids. A lot of audiences who saw the show on Broadway and on tour in the U.S. are never going to notice that but for me that really bugs me because when I saw School Of Rock and Matilda The Musical when they were on tour in the U.S. they had child actors on stage. Out of all of the performances of Charlie and the chocolate factory live on stage I like the London's West End version a lot better because they have the child actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike which makes more since because we need kids to act like nasty kids. Plus when the show started in London they know what they were doing for the casting of child actors in the show to play the four nasty kids and they got it right. Compare to the Broadway and National Tour versions they used adult actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike which doesn't make any since and they got the casting of the characters in the show wrong. But still I want child actors in the show to play the four nasty kids. Every time they do a stage play of Charlie and the chocolate factory in America after the success of the West End version the Broadway/National Tour and UK Tour versions always get's the show wrong.
The Broadway and U.S. Tour versions of Charlie and the chocolate factory needs to pay attention more on the West End version and do more research on their auditioning process for child actors to be in the show because Broadway is being so lazy when it comes to casting to play the characters in the show. The show did great on Broadway and on tour in the U.S. it's just it wasn't the right casting. Other than that another con about the show is that it had no exit song for Violet after she chewed the three cores dinner chewing gum and the show is going from kid friendly to dark when during the Nutcracker Suite the squirrels tore Verruca apart. I'm going to give the Broadway and National Tour version of Charlie and the chocolate factory a 7 out of 10 with the exception of the adult actors playing the four nasty kids, making the show dark, no exit song for Violet and the squirrels taring Verruca apart. When the show is back on Broadway and back on tour in the U.S. I hope they will correct this in the future and allow child actors on Broadway and National Tour to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet and Mike in Charlie and the chocolate factory. They also need to make the show less dark, more kid friendly and make it a little more like the West End version and the 1971 and 2005 films.
Not only that, if the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle or any other Theatre in the United States and the United Kingdom want to recreate their own stage production of Charlie and the chocolate factory and make it a better version and get a revival on Broadway and on tour in the UK and USA then they not only they need to include child actors to play Augustus, Verruca, Violet, Mike and Charlie but here are the songs they should use for act 1 and act 2 from the West End version, Broadway version, stage school/community theatre productions of Willy Wonka and one song I made up for the Nut Room scene.
Act 1:
1. Opening
2. Golden Age of Chocolate
3. The Candy Man
4. Almost Nearly Perfect
5. The Amazing Fantastical History Of Mr. Willy Wonka
6. News Of Augustus/More Of Him To Love
7. News Of Verruca/When Verruca Says
8. Think Positive
9. News Of Violet/The Queen Of Pop
10. News Of Mike/It's Teavee Time!
11. Cheer Up Charlie
12. Think Positive (Reprise)
13. I've Got A Golden Ticket/Grandpa Joe
14. It Must Be Believed To Be Seen
Act 2:
1. Strike That, Reverse It
2. The Chocolate Room/Simply Second Nature
3. Augustus' Downfall/Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop
4. When Willy Met Oompa
5. There's No Knowing
6. Gum!/Juicy!
7. In This Room Here
8. Flying/Burping Song
9. I Want It Now
10. Oompa Loompa's Nutcracker Sweet
11. Vidiots
12. Pure Imagination
13. A Little Me
14. It Must Be Believed To Be Seen (Reprise)
15. Finale