The beautiful Ratatouille TikTok musical has already sold over $ 1 million in tickets

The TikTok Ratatouille musical – also known as the Ratatousical– debuted online on New Year’s Day and has already sold more than $ 1 million in tickets, in the good-natured start to 2021. A portion of the ticket sales will benefit The Actors Fund, which supports artists and workers in the entertainment industry.

The musical came together on TikTok over a few months, with creators including composers, fans, set designers, customers and choreographers, who designed musical numbers, songs and even a fake Playbill for the fictional ‘show’ based on the 2007 Disney / Pixar animated film. .

Then all of a sudden it happened: Seaview Productions announced that they were producing the show in collaboration with TikTok, and even Disney / Pixar gave its blessing. The series has garnered some big names from Broadway stars to carry the crowd, including Wayne Brady performing with rock makeup as Django, Andrew Barth Feldman as Linguini, Ashley Park as Colette, Kevin Chamberlin as Auguste Gusteau, Andre de Shields as Anton Ego, Adam Lambert as Emile, and Tituss Burgess who plays Remy, the rat who likes to cook. The 20-piece Broadway Sinfonietta Orchestra was also on board.

“The Rat’s Way of Life” and “Ratatouille Tango” created by TikToker Blake Rouse are featured in the musical, along with “Everyone Can Cook” and the song that started it all, “Remy the Ratatouille.” It did not have all the splendor and brilliance of a high Broadway production, but the caliber of performances given by actors, musicians and dancers from their homes (yes, even a kicking line!) Is top notch shelves.

Feldman summed it up after the debut: ‘fantastic’.

By the end of the program, we also see a lot of the TikTok creators who brought it all together. I’m not a theater critic at all, but I like musicals, and I find the Ratatousical to be a creative triumph, much needed at a time when Broadway and the rest of the world have been disrupted by the pandemic. And I agree with the critic of The Los Angeles Times which says that the show can pave a new way forward for musical theater, without preventing gatekeepers from having new talent their chance to shine.

I will not spoil the plot, but it sticks very well with the storyline of the original film. You can still get tickets for the one-time streaming performance, which is available until 7pm ET on January 4th. I advise you to check it out.