Review: Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical
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Last Autumn, a revolution was happening on the social media platform TikTok. Broadway fans were coming together, posting videos which, long story short, wove together to become a brand new musical based on Pixar's classic Ratatouille. The first (that we know of), to be entirely created on social media.
A lot of us rolled our eyes, laughed, thought the world was going even madder than it already was.... Until right at the end of the year when it was announced that Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical would be getting it's own "full" online experience with the Broadway touch, directed by Lucy Moss, one half of the SIX creators.
Even more astonishing when I was scrolling through my Instagram and noticed that two very good friends of mine gave the show 5 star ratings! And, so I am not sure I can avoid it any longer...
So after all the Twitter feeds, YouTube rants, and the memes, is Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical one fever dream too far, or is it underappreciated like Remy himself.
I think this would be one to introduce like Robyn from Anime America does for some of her videos:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, What Am I Watching?!"
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Along with Moss directing the creative team hired some of Broadway's most-loved talent at the moment: Tituss Burgess (Central Park) as Remy, Andrew Barth Feldman as Linguini, Adam Lambert as Emile, Ashley Park as Colette and Tony winner Andre De Sheilds (Hadestown) as Ego the food critic. To be honest, if this takes off, whether by Disney Theatrical or someone else, you would probably use a lot of this cast as it is. Especially Feldman - he's perfect for Linguini if this takes off.
But what this boils down to (hehe I made a food pun!), is that it is pure parody and isn't ashamed of it. It doesn't take itself seriously in the slightest; it's silly; it's cheesy. In fact, with Burgess' casting, it feels like something from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (of course Titus Andromedon would audition for this!). It's a fever dream, but whereas CATS gave me nightmares, this is definitely on the up.
And the second things is its creativity. The central theme of the film (and now TikTok musical), is that maybe not ANYONE can cook, but that a great cook can come from ANYWHERE. And to translate from cooking to creating a musical, perhaps creating a musical can also come from anywhere. Even with a couple of snippets on TikTok done from random people on the inter-web.
So many people were involved in this: technicians, The Broadway Sinfonietta who recorded the score, choreographers (yes there are some dance breaks!), the many many people who created a song from scratch for a brand new musical. Writing songs is hard.
If you do want to try this, you have until 7pm EST on 4th January (or to Brits, midnight on 5th January) and can get tickets here: Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical Tickets TodayTix Tickets are donation based and are from as little as $5 (around £3.60), with all proceeds going to The Actors Fund. For a one hour parody musical, $5 is worth it if you're like me and still recovering from Xmas funds (and if you not sure what you're letting yourself in for).
Welcome to 2021 folks! Who knows what is going to happen next year, but if there is one thing to come from Remy and co, it is that the arts live, and creativity lives.
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