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Okay I'm going to try to explain this, so bear with me. On Tiktok, an entire community has come together to create Ratatouille the Musical. What seemed like a joke has become an incredible undertaking. Or not? Here's how it started, with a call:
One tiktok user, a composer named Daniel, submitted what the community has accepted as the official theme of the Ratatouille musical.
Blake Rouse followed with the Ratatouille Tango, where he plays Linguini, and another tiktok user duets the video to play the role of Colette
Is that where it stops? Absolutely not. Designers have submitted their ideas for the Ratatouille Playbill
More recently, we're starting to see set design submissions. This one comes from Shoebox Musicals.
Can't pull the video in here, so excuse the link but a young student composer named RJ wrote “Anyone Can Cook,” and here he is singing the reprise and it's superb.
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ttps://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJxrBY98/
Here's tiktok user Momopeach02 submitting her version of Colette's final song, with melody provided by RJ.
In all seriousness, the Ratatouille musical has been an incredible outlet and source of joy for theater students, who are living through the worst time in their industry's history.
And if I'm being honest, watching the Ratatouille Musical come together has been one of my favorite theatre experiences of all time.
While the actors and composers keep working on songs, set designers are trying to figure out the mechanics of scale.
It goes beyond just a crowdsourced musical. User salpal1723 (on the left) is a professional stage manager looking for work, and on this video she's calling out stage cues. She says this is her formal application for Tiktok's Ratatouille musical.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJxrHBGS/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJxrHBGS/
I'll continue to update on any breaking Ratatouille musical news, but if you gotta have more (and trust me, I get it), follow #ratatouillethemusical on tiktok.
And if I didn't credit someone, it's because their name wasn't listed. But their handles are on the top left of the video if you want to follow them personally!
Also, I don't know the full chronology of how the musical came together. If y'all have seen articles about this, drop the link! Would love to learn more beyond what's just showing up in my feed.
Back with an update. One point of contention in the Ratatouille musical community is how Remy should be depicted. The most popular options are:
a) Played by a human actor
b) Played by a human actor in a rat suit
c) No actor, just a rat silhouette in a chef's hat
a) Played by a human actor
b) Played by a human actor in a rat suit
c) No actor, just a rat silhouette in a chef's hat
It's incredible how much inspiration the songwriters pulled from Colette. Every single take on her training song is amazing. Ecoutez!
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJxkB5Rk/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJxkB5Rk/
If you want to have street credit, it's important to know that the variant title of “Ratatouille the Musical” is “Ratatousical”
Another Ratatouille the Musical update. Here we have a duet between Remy and his brother Emile, performance by Blakey Rouse, costumes by Brandon Hardy
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJQaMRtY/
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJQaMRtY/
