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The Willy Wonka expertise in Glasgow was described as the largest occasion catastrophe because the Fyre Competition.
Nevertheless, it seems a separate inventive staff has been impressed by the current catastrophe, and are planning to show the entire botched expertise right into a musical.
The BBC reviews that producer Richard Kraft has assembled a staff for the challenge, known as “Willy Fest: A Musical Parody,” which he hopes to launch later this yr. He advised the BBC that the writing staff 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 ensure we’ve the correct finances to execute this effectively.”
The names hooked up to the challenge embrace Emmy nominee and comic Riki Lindhome and Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner.
Final month, the occasion gained notoriety after creators did not ship on guarantees of chocolate fountains, performances by Oompa Loompas and “a celebration of chocolate in all its pleasant types.” Offended households posted photos of the limp exhibition and demanded their a refund.
The creators of the Glasgow present beforehand issued a fulsome apology on Fb for the failure of the occasion, and promised full refunds to dissatisfied clients.Word: This text has been amended. It initially acknowledged that Richard Kraft had produced the Glasgow Competition expertise, however this was incorrect. Neither he nor his staff had been concerned within the unique occasion.