Golden Tickets: Guild Builders offer caution-dairy tale with “Willy Wonka Jr.’
- The cast of “Willy Wonka Jr.” which opens at 7 p.m. today at the Actors Guild of Parkersburg. (Photo Provided)
- Charlie Bucket and the family in “Willy Wonka Jr.” in the Guild Builders’ production at the Actors Guild of Parkersburg. The show opens at 7 p.m. today. (Photo Provided)
- Charlie Bucket, played by Sam Taylor, finds one of five golden tickets for a tour of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. “Willy Wonka Jr.” opens at 7 p.m. today at the Actors Guild of Parkersburg. (Photo Provided)
- Jack Peyton as Willy Wonka performs in a scene from “Willy Wonka Jr.” opening at 7 p.m. today at the Actors Guild of Parkersburg on Market Street. The show is a production of the Guild Builders youth program. (Photo Provided)
PARKERSBURG — “Willy Wonka Jr.,” performed by the youth in the Guild Builders at the Actors Guild of Parkersburg, opens at 7 p.m. today at the playhouse on Market Street.
Performances are scheduled for 7 p.m. today, Saturday, March 7, 8, 14 and 15 with matinees scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Sunday and March 9 and 16. Check the Actors Guild website for the availability of tickets, of which many seats remain open for the latter shows.
Tickets are available online at https://www.actorsguild.com/buy-tickets.html. The box office number is 304-485-1300.
The musical is a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and is about how Charlie Bucket gets a rare golden ticket in a candy bar, one of five, for a tour of the chocolate factory by Willy Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas. Charlie’s honesty and humility help him be the true winner of Wonka’s ultimate prize.
Members of the cast are: Jack Peyton as Willy Wonka; Sam Taylor as Charlie Bucket; Jantzen Karcher as Grandpa Joe; Cleora Hepburn as Grandma Georgina; Zoey Bell as Grandma Josephine; Henry Nicely as Grandpa George; Jayme Short as Mr. Bucket; Analeigh Bennett as Mrs. Bucket; Hattie Jacobs as Matilda; Thomas Lodato as James; Max Taylor as Candy Man; Charlie Taylor as Phineous Trout; Zack Lantz as Augustus Gloop; Maggie Ice as Mrs. Gloop; Nola Smith as Veruca Salt; Caleb Mcclung as Mr. Salt; Mia Higgins as Violet Beauregard; Eliana Higgins as Mrs. Beauregard; Miley Hoover as Ms. Teavee; Trip Parsons as Mike Teavee; Oompa Loompas: Titus Cheuvront, Coulson Elliot, Mara Evans, Emmarie Lodato and Layne Rem.








