The all-talented TikTok album “Ratatouille” has developed a strong talent for the one-night-only concert, including roles for Tituss Burgess, Adam Lambert, André De Shields, Wayne Brady and Ashley Park
NEW YORK – TikTok album “Ratatouille” has produced a truly talented single for its one-night concert, including roles for Tituss Burgess, Adam Lambert, Wayne Brady, André De Shields and Ashley Park.
“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” – nicknamed “Ratatousical” – kicks off on Friday at 7pm ET for 72 hours. Tickets are sold directly on TodayTix.com and are $ 5. Profits benefit from the Actors Fund, which supports entertainment industry employees.
It is the result of a number of minds – many music theater fans and jobless actors – who collaborated on original songs, lyrics and ideas to turn an animated, non-musical film into a two-act Broadway-style show.
The story for both film and music venues of Remy, an ambitious rat who dreams of becoming a Parisian chef. Burgess will play Remy, Lambert will play his older brother, Emile, and Brady will play his father. Tony Award-winning De Shields plays food writer Anton Ego, Kevin Chamberlin plays chef Gusteau and Andrew Barth Feldman plays Gusteau’s “nephew” Linguini.
Other members of the team are Priscilla Lopez, winner of Tony, Ashley Park, Tony nominee Owen Tabaka and three-time nominated Mary Testa. The show will be performed by the 20-piece Broadway Sinfonietta orchestra.
The album – based on the 2007 Disney / Pixar movie – has been surfing over the past few months on TikTok and there are many viral stars of that social media platform that helped make to the show engaged in the production.
The two Emily Jacobsen, who wrote the original song “Remy the Ratatouille” for TikTok, and the composer Daniel Mertzlufft, who helped arrange that song start the online endeavor to gain writing credit, as is Blake Rouse, who wrote two of TikTok’s most popular songs, “Rat’s Life” and “Ratatouille Tango.”
The streaming show will be produced by Seaview Productions. It is adapted by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, designed by Ellenore Scott and directed by Lucy Moss.
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