EXCLUSIVE: When John Stamos warns of a chocolaty apocalypse, listen.
He does simply than in a sneak pay attention of what could possibly be a fairly scrumptious musical parody impressed by that hilariously misguided (and unlicensed) Willy Wonka expertise occasion in Glasgow a number of months again.
The Stamos observe is certainly one of three demos launched to Deadline in the present day by the producers of Willy’s Sweet Spectacular: A Musical Parody. With a line-up of songwriters together with Riki Lindhome, Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell, and Daniel Mertzlufft, and performances by TikTok’s The Sharpe Household and the actual fest’s precise unhappy, gone-viral Oompa Loompa actress Kirsty Paterson, the demos will debut in the present day on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and at willyscandyspectacular.com.
Pattern lyric, as delivered by Stamos with traditional rock god strikes: “It was the beginning of the tip of the world/It’s 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 parody’s lead producer Richard Kraft of Kraft-Engel Productions had beforehand directed Stamos in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit in Live performance on the Hollywood Bowl that additionally featured Finn Wolfhard as Charlie and “Bizarre Al” Yankovic because the Oompa Loompas.
Mentioned Kraft, “The method of making a brand-new musical, which often spans years, is being condensed into simply a few months, with the workforce sharing their progress by way of social media.”
The primary three demo tracks launched in the present day are:
- “Willy’s Sweet Spectacular” – Stamos performs a post-apocalyptic opening quantity that traces the downfall of civilization again to the disastrous occasion in Glasgow. This observe is the brainchild of Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, recognized for his or her work on Broadway’s First Date and ABC’s As soon as Upon a Time. Mentioned the songwriters, “We love musicals with epic opening numbers. And we thought — what could possibly 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 place Desires Go To Fly” – An uplifting quantity written by Emmy-winners Doug Rockwell and Tova Litvin (Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Collection, Julie & The Phantoms) captures “the unbridled optimism of the impresario behind Willy’s Sweet Spectacular.” “There’s such a effective line between hovering optimism and crushing defeat,” they mentioned. “In our track, we’ve tried to seize the vary of feelings one goes by way of when creating artwork, even when that artwork is mind-numbingly terrible.”
- “Dreamed to Dare” – Written by Daniel Mertzlufft, who launched the viral TikTok musical Ratatouille the Musical, options TikTok singers The Sharpe Household and the precise unhappy Oompa Loompa actress Kirsty Paterson from the viral Wonka Expertise in Glasgow as “attendees making ready to enter the world of goals (or nightmares).” Mentioned Mertzlufft, “Not many exhibits have such excessive stakes and absurd characters that we deserve a bombastic anticipatory ensemble quantity – however with a plot like this I couldn’t resist!”
Demos of extra songs are anticipated to be launched each Sunday within the coming weeks, together with a track from Riki Lindhome based mostly on the unhappy Oompa Loompa Wannabe, culminating within the debut of a staged studying of the musical on the Pleasance King Dome from August 9 to 26 throughout Edinburgh Fringe Fest 2024.
Willy’s Sweet Spectacular: A Musical Parody, producers need to clarify, is a parody manufacturing “and never sponsored, endorsed by or affiliated with Warner Bros. Leisure Inc., Illuminati, Willy’s Chocolate Expertise, The Ferrero Group, The Roland Dahl Story Firm, Netflix, Village Roadshow Photos, HeyDay Movies and Area Leisure, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliated corporations and/or third celebration licensors.”
Hearken to the three numbers beneath:
Willys Sweet Spectacular: ( feat John Stamos)
Dreamed to Dare: (Feat Sharpe Household Singers and Unhappy Oompa Loompa Kirsty Paterson)
The place Desires Go To Fly: that includes Doug Rockwell and Tova Litvin)