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

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

The musical appeared on TikTok over several months, with creators, including composers, fans, stage designers, clients and choreographers creating musical numbers, songs and even a fake Playbill for the fictional “show” based on the Disney / Pixar animated film of 2007.

Then, suddenly, it was really happening: Seaview Productions announced that it was producing the program in association with TikTok, and even Disney / Pixar gave its approval. The show brought in some Broadway stars to perform the crowdsourcing songs, including Wayne Brady going all-in with rat 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 playing Remy, the rat who loves to cook. The 20-member 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 “Anyone Can Cook” and the song that started it all, “Remy the Ratatouille”. It didn’t have all the brilliance and glamor of a high-end Broadway production, but the caliber of performances given in their homes by actors, musicians and dancers (yes, even a kick line!) Are top notch.

Feldman summed up after the premiere: “fantastic”.

Near the end of the show, we can also see many of the creators of TikTok who helped bring everything together. I’m not a theater critic by any stretch of the imagination, but I love musicals and I found that Ratatousical to be a creative triumph, sorely needed at a time when Broadway and the rest of the world were disturbed by the pandemic. And I agree with the critic of The Los Angeles Times who says that the show can signal a new path to follow for musical theater, one without gatekeepers that prevent new talents from having their chance to shine.

I’m not going to spoil the plot, but it remains very close to the plot of the original film. You can still get tickets for the unique streaming performance, which will be available until 7 pm ET on January 4th. I strongly suggest that you check this out.