UW-River Falls Masquers present 'Willa Wonkie and the College Tour (Chocolate Not Included)'

November 28, 2016--The University of Wisconsin-River Falls University Theatre Masquers will present "Willa Wonkie and the College Tour (Chocolate Not Included)" Dec. 6-10 in the Blanche Davis Theatre in the Kleinpell Fine Arts building. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.

The play, written by E.S. Follen, is a scrumdiddlyumptious parody of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The bright Charlie Pail wants nothing more than to go to college. But first she has to survive an extraordinarily bizarre campus tour, full of student-snatching eagles, intelligence-enhancing food, and secretive mole-people.

The production is directed by Mady Davis. The cast, consisting entirely of UWRF students, includes Nick Churchill of Minnetonka, Minn., as the Narrator, Lauren Morris of River Falls as Charlie Pail, Emma Johnson of Shoreview, Minn., as Willa Wonkie, Grant Morrison of River Falls as Grandpa Joe, Kat Rokenbrodt of Chippewa Falls as Snailsworth/Mrs. Pail, Mya Ennis of New Richmond as Veruca Pepper, Mikaela Sharon of Ham Lake, Minn., as Violet Turpisgarde, Evan Budge of Woodbury, Minn., as Mike Nintendo, Matt Griffin of Savage, Minn., as Augustus Brown, Tiffany Schiwichtenberg of Victoria, Minn., as Mrs. Brown, Kelsey Tyznik of Medford as Mrs. Nintendo, Karsten Halverson of Menomonie as Dr. Pepper, Eric Cox of Maplewood, Minn., as Mr. Turpisgarde, Ha Yang of St. Paul as Uni Loonie 1, and Nathan Thomas of White Bear Township, Minn., as Uni Loonie 2.

Tickets are $10/adults, $8/seniors, $5/under 18, and free with ID for UW-River Falls students. The Box Office in Kleinpell Fine Arts will be open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning Nov. 28. On performance days, the Box Office opens at 6:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in person, by phone at 715-425-3114, or online at uwrf.edu/SASA/UniversityTheatre.

For more information, call the Box Office.