Seems, that Willy Wonka immersive expertise tried in Glasgow, Scotland, again in February was much more of a catastrophe than beforehand reported.
The truth is, it might have began the apocalypse, in response to a brand new music video by actor John Stamos known as “Willy’s Sweet Spectacular” that’s the opening quantity for a brand new in-the-works musical known as “Willy’s Sweet Spectacular: A Musical Parody.”
Stamos’ tune explains how the tip of civilization as we all know it may be traced to the disastrous Wonka-themed occasion earlier this yr that was so dangerous police had been known as to the scene by irate clients.
“We had been informed to offer [kids] one jelly bean and 1 / 4 cup of lemonade,” performer Paul Connell informed the Impartial. “No chocolate on the chocolate expertise. There was speculated to be a chocolate fountain someplace however I by no means noticed it.”
The opening lyrics to Stamos recommend the tragic occasion was simply the begin to the tip of the world:
It was the beginning of the tip of the world/ Its significance was straightforward to overlook/ A scheme gone dangerous turned viral fad/ introduced us to the apocalypse/ Some thought it’d be Trump or Putin/ setting the world ablaze/ Some thought it’d be masks or Covid vaccinations/ that led to the ends of days/ However no! It was Willy’s Sweet Spectacular!”
The tune’s composers, Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, mentioned in a launch that they love musicals with epic opening numbers and thought, “What might be extra epic than John Stamos singing concerning the finish of humanity and linking our species’ demise to an underwhelming immersive expertise in Scotland?”
The tune is certainly one of three songs from the musical to drop Monday. One other one, “Dreamed To Dare,” features a efficiency by Kirsty Paterson, who went viral because the “unhappy Oompa-Loompa” on the occasion.
Further songs will drop each Sunday earlier than a staged studying of the musical debuts Aug. 9 on the Edinburgh Fringe Fest 2024.
Stamos’ participation in that occasion remains to be to be decided, in response to the musical’s rep.