Any suggestions on tricks to use for a Willy Wonka themed show?

I had thought to base the show around candies and different candies having different properties like...

* Willy Wonka's Everlasting Bubble Gum (bubble gum mouth coils)
* Air Candy that's lighter than air (Chair Suspension)

I'm trying to think of other ideas. I was thinking maybe Hippidy Hop Bunnys... tie it into chocolate bunnies... just have to come up with the Patter.

Any other ideas?

Don't use the name Willy Wonka to promote your show or you could be hearing from evil lawyers. They will protect the copywrite. You can call yourself the "Candyman" or something, until the Candyman horror people find out. I know a local performer who described one of his characters as "like Austin Powers..." and he was promptly sued. He didn't have to pay out anything because he agreed to switch over to being "international man of mystery" which wasn't owned by the people who owned Austin Powers. This is why you can hire "A purple dinosaur" but not "Barney"....have fun.
Steve V

Call yourself the Candyman and Sammy David Jr. will haunt you from the grave!

Kent

Chance Wolf's ABC Recombobulator would fit perfectly into the candy themed show.

Ken

Get a pair of those funky sunglasses they used in the movie and do floating sunglasses.

Milk pitcher using chocolate milk....

Selected playing card found in a wrapped wonka bar...

Get some of that candy that comes in long (by the yard pieces and do the vanishing cane turning it into the strip of candy...

Multiplying billiard balls (re-named gob stoppers of course)


Lyndel

The music in the original move as the winners enter the chocolate room is wonderful and moody.

I have pictured doing something to that but have not come up with anything.

It would seem wonderful to introduce your act like in the movie... "ladies and gentlemen. boys and girls. the chocolate room!"



I took my kids to see the new movie. what a farce. horrible.

Too true! At all the entertainer websites you'll find names like 'red monster' (Elmo) 'Pinnie the Wooh' and 'sponge-in-pants'

Let's see....the bubblegum coils is my fave of all the ideas listed...how about the effect where you take a chewed peice of gum & flip it into a wrapped new peice? (Can't recall the name) but that wouldnt really play to a crowd.

Just a thought for ya!
If you are doing a lot of candy effects in your show the kids are going to want or even expect that you are going to give them candy! Just wanted to plant that in your head so you don't get mobbed at a show from kids looking for the candy LOL
(maybe you could dress one of the kids up like an umpa-loompa)

When doing 20th Century Silks, after vanishing the silk I say that the silk still exists, but it's now in particles so small you can't see them and traveling above the audience's heads - and I always think of WonkaVision, and how the same thing happened to Mike TeeVee.

So maybe you can have WonkaVision props (a camera and a small TV screen), then vanish a chocolate bar (perhaps the camera could be a vanishing apparatus), then produce a mini-Wonka bar from the TV.

- Steve

Ah... not to worry about the Willy Wonka name... it's a celebrity look alike appearance, so the lawyers are happy. Or, at least, my booker is happy.

I won't actually call myself Willy Wonka, but the appearance will be there.

Thanks for the ideas. I do like the WonkaVision idea the best, so far. That's terrific. Now... to figure out how to do it.

Billy Bonka!