Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience Being Adapted as Musical Satire by Richard Kraft and Riki Lindhome
variety.comKatcy Stephan After a disastrous Willy Wonka “immersive” experience in Glasgow set the internet ablaze, the fiasco is getting the musical satire treatment.
The creative team behind “Willy Fest: A Musical Parody” includes Emmy nominee Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel and Oates, “Another Period”), Emmy winners Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell (“High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” “Julie & The Phantoms”), TikTok songwriter Daniel Mertzlufft (“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” “Grumpy Monkey: The Musical”) and Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (“First Date,” ABC’s “Once Upon a Time”).
Richard Kraft (“The Little Mermaid Live”) will produce. The misguided event, falsely marketed to families as an elaborate experience worthy of Willy Wonka’s fictional chocolate factory, captured viral attention worldwide as it morphed into a nightmare not unlike the infamous Fyre Fest.
Guests paid for overpriced tickets to enter a creepy warehouse filled with sad Oompa Loompa wannabes and underwhelming production design.
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