Keep in mind that viral Willy Wonka “immersive expertise” fail? It is getting became a musical.

Earlier this yr, a botched “Willy Wonka” exhibit in Glasgow, Scotland, went viral – as a result of what was promised to be an immersive expertise crammed with enjoyable and sweet was removed from that. As an alternative, it was a largely barren warehouse with lackluster decorations and no chocolate. Now, the expertise – which outraged some attendees sufficient to name the cops – is being became a musical.

“Willy’s Sweet Spectacular,” a musical parody, will premiere on the Edinburgh Fringe Pageant in August. A number of songs from the musical have been launched on YouTube forward of the premiere – together with one that includes John Stamos, who sings a track “that traces the downfall of civilization again to the disastrous occasion in Glasgow.”

Billed because the “Fyre Fest of Fudge” – referring to the botched 2017 musical pageant within the Bahamas – the musical will uncover how the AI-influenced expertise got here to be an outrage-inducing flop.

In keeping with the actor employed to play Willy Wonka on the failed expertise in Glasgow, the actors got scripts of “AI-generated gibberish” to be taught simply days earlier than the expertise opened. 

“It was very disappointing to see how many individuals turned up at this occasion and located mainly me dressed up as Willy Wonka in a half-abandoned warehouse,” Paul Connell informed BBC Radio’s Good Morning Scotland.

He stated the actors had been livid and so they felt conned. “[It] did flip fairly scary at one level as a result of folks had been indignant,” he stated. “There was a lot of shouting and teams of individuals getting very, very irate.”

Some guests even known as the police and Glasgow Metropolis Council’s Buying and selling Requirements division acquired at the very least one grievance in regards to the occasion, in response to BBC Information,

One attendee informed CBS Information his 4-year-old daughter, who was dressed as Willy Wonka for the event, was actually disenchanted. “She was telling all her lecturers beforehand how she was going to fulfill Willy Wonka and it did not actually pan out like that,” Stuart Sinclair informed CBS Information’ Anne-Marie Inexperienced. 

The dad of three drove two hours and paid $44 a ticket for the occasion. “It was all described as an enormous immersive expertise, nice concept for the children, chocolate fountains … Simply sounded actually, actually good, a pleasant day for the youngsters and the household,” stated Sinclair. “And after we received there, as you possibly can see by the images and stuff, it simply was not that in any respect. There have been 4 or 5 props, just a few jelly beans for the children. Half a cup of lemonade. Simply was not what was promised in any way.”

Sinclair stated the actors on the expertise had been skilled. 

Home of Illuminati, the corporate that ran the expertise, promptly canceled the expertise and initially stated folks would obtain refunds – however deleted the social media put up asserting that. CBS reached to Home of Illuminati for remark on the time and didn’t obtain a response.

CBS Information is awaiting response from Home of Illuminati regarding the musical. 

The brand new musical manufacturing comes from Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell, a songwriting and manufacturing group from Los Angeles who’re behind tasks just like the Marvel Rising franchise, Netflix’s “Julie & the Phantoms” and the “Sneakerella” musical on Disney+.

Kraft-Engel Productions, which has produced a “Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Manufacturing unit” musical and a number of other different productions, can also be behind the present.