With Broadway theaters closed at least until next fall, it's TikTok that for New Year's Eve will stage a multi-starred cast musical.
Wayne Brady of "Kinky Boots", Adam Lambert of "Wicked", Tituss Burgess of "The Little Mermaid" and Ashley Park of "Mean Girls" and "Emily in Paris" are the stars of "Ratatouille", the show inspired by the cartoon 2007 Disney-Pixar about a little French mouse who loves good food and dreams of becoming a chef.
The new version, whose soundtrack is entrusted to the 20 black musicians of the Broadway Sinfonietta, will be staged on January 1st and then for just another 72 hours on demand on the hugely popular smartphone app.
The 2020 edition of "Ratatouille" is not a musical like any other.
The singularity of this online music crowdsourcing phenomenon is that the fans created songs, sets and choreographies.
It all started last August when Emily Jacobsen, a 26-year-old from New York, composed "Ode to Remy", a love ballad about the foodie mouse, and posted it on TikTok, sparking the creativity of hundreds of thousands of subscribers. .
Unlike other great Disney musicals like "Beauty and the Beast", "Frozen" and "Lion King", "Ratatouille" had never before had a remake.
Mickey's house wasn't directly involved in the show, but it apparently gave its blessing, as did actor Patton Oswalt, who had lent mouse Remy the original voice.
At the end of October, a centralized profile was created, RatatouilleTheTikTokMusical, in order to collect and select the best ideas: "It is clear that everyone wants this musical and it is time to make it come true".
That said, after less than a month, the theater production company Seaview announced that the show would become a gala whose proceeds would go to the benefit of the Actors Fund, with tickets, for five dollars each, for sale online on TodayTix. com.
An almost obligatory destination, since the foundation has been supporting jobless actors since Broadway theaters closed their doors in March due to the Covid pandemic.
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