Botched ‘Willy Wonka Experience’ to be turned into stage musical with top Broadway producers

The botched Willy Wonka trip in Glasgow is to be turned into a stage musical within the US with top songwriters and producers engaged on a parody of the viral match

The botched Willy Wonka trip in Glasgow is to be turned into a stage musical within the US.

Top Broadway songwriters and producers obtain announced they are engaged on a musical parody of the viral match. Hundreds of parents forked out £35 for tickets final month nonetheless had been left angry after being ushered into a warehouse comparatively filled with Wonka-themed decorations and a bouncy fortress within the corner.

Organisers at Home of Illuminati had been pressured to shut the doorways after beautiful half a day with police also identified as in. The musical – titled Willy Fest – is planned as a reside match for later this year and is being led by Richard Kraft, who produced The Miniature Mermaid Live expose. He has assembled a team of writers and musicians to divulge the project to fruition including Riki Lindhome, an Emmy nominee identified for the musical personnel Garfunkel and Oates, and Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.

Kraft said: “While most look nothing nonetheless wreckage in a catastrophe of this magnitude, we all instruct it screams out: MUSICAL!! While it within reason customary for there to be writers’ rooms in television, taking that manner with theatrical songwriters within reason unfamiliar and likely to produce amazingly satirical and surprising outcomes.”

The producer has trip within the arena of Wonka, having directed Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in Live efficiency at the Hollywood Bowl. In a joint commentary, Zachary and Weiner said: “From Broadway to aspect road corner pop-ups, audiences obtain become obsessed with immersive experiences that enable them to be a portion of the story.

“But it without a doubt takes a obvious more or less magic to devastate kids and adults alike and it seems to be just like the most efficient blueprint to derive meaning on this chocolate-less catastrophe is to voice about it.” The Wonka-themed match did no longer characteristic any chocolate nonetheless two actors in ‘consuming Oompa Loompa costumes’ gave out jelly beans to disillusioned adolescents.

The actor hired to play Willy Wonka later published he become handed a script of AI-generated gibberish. It included an inferior, cloaked chocolate maker called ‘The Unknown’ who become hiding behind a bedroom mirror. The teenage actor who played The Unknown, sixteen-year-inclined Felicia, has been recruited to work at the London Dungeon.

She’s going to be hanging her trip of scaring kids from the Wonka enchantment to beautiful utter on April 7. The visitor appearance will look her skilled up by the best within the exchange within the art of panic and immersive theatre performing. Earlier this week props from the Willy Wonka match raised higher than £2,000 at auction for a Palestinian aid charity. Monorail inform store in Glasgow auctioned them on eBay after they had been passed on by an particular person that came in the end of them.