If you are interested in wonka things, email me at info@iwascast.com

I don't have any large set items or the backdrop - everything has been removed and is not available. I can help out with all the little stuff which TRUST me will save you a lot of time. :) I basically have:

Poster design (very attractive poster - can be customized)

Tickets ( Golden ticket themed - can be customized)

candy wrappers (all kinds for all the bars)

Fizzy Drink Labels - these fit on the small glass ginger ale bottles

Large printable room signs (professionally designed) for the 5 factory stops (you would need access to a large scale printer to use these)

Since there has been such great interest, I may see about uploading everything to a web site where people can simply download what they need.

Anyhow, send me an email if you need something (not listed above) - I may have it. :) I can also send photos of our set to give you some ideas.

Onstage-

I will email you!

Thanks-

TheatreGeek

For the trash scene We built a platform so the kid could jump into brand new rolling garbage can (local garabage co.) and had the squirrel roll the can off the stage

Hi Bob--I too, am mostly a lurker, but thought you might find my info useful.  We are currently doing the MTI version.  I don't know the TYA version, but here's what I can tell you about MTI.  There is a lot of singing--it is almost an operetta.  Our director didn't really like the script at first.  The dialogue was dumb--it was as if the writers didn't think kids could memorize real lines.  She took out a couple of songs, and changed and added dialogue straight from the book.  Our production is going to mirror Roald Dahl's book more closely than either movie or the stage production.  We've been advertising it that way, and so far, the response has been great.  We have already sold out our 2 school assembly performances! 
    For sets,   we open with the Candy man in the street.  We will have a white background on which we will shine a GOBO of a city skyline.  We will have a lamp post, and some benches, a fire hydrant--all to give the effect of a city street.  Costume-wise,   The Candy Man and his cart are they only bright spots on the stage (He's wearing a red and white  barbershop style outfit, and is pushing a bright yellow cart with variously colored candy on it).  My chorus is going to be dressed in black, blue, gray, and white to give the effect of city coldness and dullness.  After that scene, curtain closes, we move the props off, and move our Bucket Shack interior on stage.  These are just moveable set pieces, and they are set on SR.  CS and SL are empty.  We still have the city scape on the background.  We bring warm--colored lights on the Bucket side of the stage for that action.  As the action shifts from the Buckets to the news reports, the lights go down on the Buckets, and goes up on a newsroom set up.  Twice our ticket winners will be coming from the audience  and the action is taking place off stage. 
   When we are outside the factory gates, we will have another GOBO of a large building, and we happen to have a gate structure with 2 pillars already in our stores. 
   I don't know the details of the factory inside, but it sounds like our set guy is going big.   This is going to be hugely colorful, and my costumes for the Oompas are in flourescent colors. ( We are trying to go for the Wizard of Oz effect of black and white to Technicolor!)  My Wonka is wearing a purple coat that has some sequins embroidered into the fabric, so he literally sparkles.  He will be dressed just as he is described in the book.   The set guy  is using one basic backdrop with a "Small World" (Disney Land) kind of design on it.  Then he's putting  out various set pieces that he is constructing.  He's pretty ingenious about creating set pieces that can be turned around and upside down to make new  things.  The Boat background is just a black stage.  We're using a blacklight, and we're going to have dancers with florescent ribbons dancing around the boat to give the weird psychodelic effect.  The TV room is also another simple set up, with just the white backdrop, and we're also putting a white cloth down to cover the whole of the stage.  It will look very sterile. 
   I would say this is our most complicated show set-wise, but I think it will also be our biggest show yet.  The response from the community has been great, and we haven't even started selling tickets yet (aside from the assembly shows.)    We have decided to add two Sat. matinees which we don't normally do. 
   When we go to production, I will probably post pictures on my blog and my facebook page.  We will probably have pictures on our website as well.  Costume-wise, we might be able to rent your group some of our costumes.  Our Oompas are going to be quite unique--I'm sticking pretty close to Quentin Blakes's illustrations in the book--they are nothing like what is seen in either movie.  I've just completed my Augustus Gloop costume--we have a normal weight boy playing that part, and I'm making him a size 42!  On a 4'11 frame, he looks quite round! 

Hope I've given you some good ideas.  I think if your group went with this production it would be a big hit.  It's a whole lot of fun, too! 

Janet

WOW! Thank you so much, Janet. That was VERY thorough.