The Willy Wonka expertise in Glasgow was described as the most important occasion catastrophe for the reason that Fyre Competition.
Nonetheless, it seems the producers have clutched victory from the jaws of catastrophe with the crew planning to show the entire botched expertise right into a musical.
The BBC reviews that the present’s lead producer Richard Kraft has assembled a crew for the mission, referred to as “Willy Fest: A Musical Parody,” which he hopes to launch later this 12 months. He instructed the BBC that the writing crew was “assembled in much less time than it takes for somebody to sing the primary verse of ‘Oompa Loompa Doompa-Dee-Do’.”
And he stated: “I don’t need to fall into placing on the very factor we’re satirising, so we’re speaking to traders now to verify we’ve got the right finances to execute this effectively.”
The names hooked up to the mission embrace Emmy nominee and comic Riki Lindhome and Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.
Final month, the occasion gained notoriety after creators didn’t ship on guarantees of chocolate fountains, performances by Oompa Loompas and “a celebration of chocolate in all its pleasant varieties.” Offended households posted footage of the limp exhibition and demanded their a refund.
Kraft previously issued a fulsome apology on Fb for the failure of the occasion, and promised full refunds to dissatisfied clients.
