A workforce of high movie, tv and stage songwriters have joined forces to create a musical satire impressed by the latest, ill-fated Willy Wonka knockoff fiasco in Glasgow, Scotland that turned a social media phenomenon.
Produced by Kraft-Engel Productions, WillyFest – A Musical Parody is to premiere in late 2024.
The inventive workforce behind the parody musical is comprised of Emmy-nominated Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel and Oates, One other Interval) Emmy winners Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell (Excessive College Musical: The Musical: The Sequence, Julie & The Phantoms) Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner First Date, ABC’s As soon as Upon a Time) and TikTok songwriter Daniel Mertzlufft (Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, Grumpy Monkey: The Musical).
“From Broadway to avenue nook pop-ups, audiences have turn out to be obsessive about immersive experiences that allow them to be part of the story,” stated a press release from songwriters Alan Zachary & Michael Weiner. “Nevertheless it takes a particular sort of magic to devastate kids and adults alike – and it appears like the one technique to discover that means on this chocolate-less disaster… is to sing about it.”
“Whereas it’s fairly frequent for there to be writers’ rooms in tv, taking that method with theatrical songwriters is pretty distinctive and more likely to produce amazingly satirical and sudden outcomes,” stated producer Richard Kraft of Kraft-Engel Productions (Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas in Live performance on the Hollywood Bowl, ABC’s The Little Mermaid Dwell) of the inventive workforce behind the brand new parody musical. “If Ed Wooden and P.T. Barnum bought into ‘environmental experiences’ fueled by 1,000,000 goals and 0 {dollars}, it would end up like this. Whereas most see nothing however wreckage in a catastrophe of this magnitude, all of us suppose it screams out: Musical!!”
