Veruca’s Nutcracker Sweet Original London Cast of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Ft. Clive Carter, Douglas Hodge & Tia Noakes)

(Willy Wonka leads them on a high speed tour round the crazy corridors of his factory until, disoriented, they arrive at The Nut Room where the factory nuts are tested by a small army of trained squirrels sitting at a conveyor belt. Good nuts are kept and bad nuts thrown away. Veruca demands a squirrel. When Willy refuses, she takes matters into her own hands. When she gets to the conveyor belt she is grabbed by a squirrel and tested. BAD NUT! Suddenly the room fills with Oompa-loompas riding on the back of giant squirrels. They dance a nightmarish ballet before ushering Veruca and her father down the bad nut chute.)

[SQUIRREL]
BAD NUT!

[VERUCA, spoken]
Daddy, what’s happening?

[MR. SALT, spoken]
Wonka, she’s headed for the nut cracker!

[OOMPA-LOOMPAS]
Veruca Salt, the débutante
She’s always screaming “I want, I want”
We hope she wants last month’s chow mein
As she jetés down the garbage drain

[VERUCA, spoken]
Help!

[OOMPA-LOOMPAS]
Veruca Salt, the silly cow
Her maddening mantra was “now, now, now!”
But now hang a bell on the little brute
As she pas de bourrées down the bad nut chute