Time keeps running, running, moving towards the future, and it turns out that this year is not so different from the previous one. Who could have predicted that the state of the world would not drastically change at the behest of the Gregorian calendar? But not everything is bad! It turns out that one of best things on the internet in 2020 it is also one of the best things on the internet in 2021. That would be the Ratatouille Musical TikTok, a delightful nonsense that is no longer so absurd, as it raised more than a million dollars to support The Actors Fund.
What started as a bunch of nerds from the Extremely Online musical theater joining forces, one video at a time, to create a crowdsourcing musical adaptation has reached its (possibly) final form: a remote concert production, featuring some heavyweights from the Broadway. Titus Burgess played Remy! How can you not love this ?!
At the time of writing this book, organizers say the show broadcast raised over $ 1.5 million dollars for The Actors Fund, a national human services organization that has done a lot to support unemployed artists at a time when cinemas are closed. We spent a lot of time talking about the hellsiteishness (which is a technical term) of many social media platforms, but that’s a good case, and not just because it raised money for people who need support.
Even if you don’t love musicals (and we know you love them secretly), the fact that a collaborative exercise of play and music has become a force for good during a dark time should warm even the most hardened hearts. And hey, the New York Times called it “a silly, multilayered treat”. Not bad, TikTok. Not bad at all.
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