# Live from the elementary school play - Willie Wonka jr.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-the-elementary-school-play-willie-wonka-jr/625301>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 16, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-the-elementary-school-play-willie-wonka-jr/625301 "2012-06-16T00:18:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-the-elementary-school-play-willie-wonka-jr/625301/1 "2012-06-16T00:18:42Z")

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Omg it’s ten after 8 and they’re not even in the factory yet.:eek: It’s been going on for an hour.

Standing room only. Guess who’s standing?

I guess there’s a shortage of boys in the drama club because Charlie’s a girl. So is Augustus Gloop. And pretty much everybody else for that matter.

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**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-the-elementary-school-play-willie-wonka-jr/625301/2 "2012-06-16T00:40:55Z")

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Yeah; my son played Willie Wonka and Charlie was a girl…he always gets parts because he’s a boy. But that’s nothing like dance recitals; there’s like 3 boys and a hundred girls.

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**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-the-elementary-school-play-willie-wonka-jr/625301/3 "2012-06-16T03:39:54Z")

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Willie Wonka was played by a girl in this. Fooled me.

I felt sorry for the girl who played Verruca Salt. Some balloons were supposed to inflate to make her into a blueberry. Something malfunctioned and she almost broke down but the kids soldiered on and averted disaster.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-from-the-elementary-school-play-willie-wonka-jr/625301/4 "2012-06-16T04:10:46Z")

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So is it over yet?