‘Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical’ All-Star Cast To Include Wayne Brady, Tituss Burgess & Adam Lambert

Adam Lambert and Kelly Osbourne are working together for a new project!

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorTina Fey and Wayne Brady have joined the line-up for this year’s Educational Theatre Foundation Gala.Theatre Alive!: A Celebration of School Theatre, to be held virtually on Jan. 28, will honor director-producer-actor Kenny Leon with the Crag Zadan Theatre for Life Award.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaDaniel J. Mertzlufft, who went viral with his arrangement of “Remy the Ratatouille” by Emily Jacobson, has signed with CAA and Kraft-Engel Management.The composer, arranger, music director, songwriter and TikTok influencer’s arrangement helped lead to the TikTok Ratatouille musical movement.

Since its premiere on New Year’s Day, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical has raised a record-breaking total of $2 million to benefit The Actors Fund, making it the most successful fundraiser in the organization’s history. In its opening weekend, the musical initially raised $1 million in ticket sales for The Actors Fund, with over 200,000 tickets sold.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDuring what would be Grammy Week in a different world, Adam Lambert is set to perform a special show on his birthday, to be livestreamed globally on January 29 from the Roxy Theatre on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip. “Adam Lambert Live” is presented by NoCap and will see the artist perform songs from his latest album “Velvet” and more.Two live performances will take place and be livestreamed worldwide at 12pm PT and later at 7pm PT to allow for global viewing.

Chris Willman Music WriterWhile no tribute may ever go down as the one David Bowie actually deserves, Saturday’s three-hour “A Bowie Celebration” livestream came within spitting distance of giving the duke his due, with a worthy cast of dozens that included Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Andra Day, Yungblud, Adam Lambert, Ian Hunter and Gary Oldman fronting superb arrangements put together by host Mike Garson, Bowie’s longtime pianist.The $25 webcast will continue to be available through 6 p.m.

“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” debuted online Friday for a three-day streaming run and immediately racked up more than $1 million in ticket sales.“You did it! You raised over $1 million to benefit @TheActorsFund!” the musical’s Twitter account tweeted on New Year’s Day.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn March, Brian Stokes Mitchell was just four days away from performing a concert at New York’s City Center when the pandemic forced theaters to close. All the other jobs that Mitchell, who won a Tony in 2000 for his performance in “Kiss Me Kate,” had lined up for the year also vanished.

A livestreamed concert will mark the fifth anniversary of David Bowie’s death and what would have been the music icon’s 74th birthday this week.

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical is a hit!

To help kick off the new year,Tituss Burgess, Andrew Barth Feldman, Ashley Park and more stars of the screen and stage sang of Parisian cooking and one rat's dream to be a culinary iconinthe virtual benefit performanceRatatouille: The TikTok Musical.

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, a virtual Broadway performance crowdsourced and organised via social media, has raised more than $1 million (£730,000) in premiere night ticket sales in support of The Actors Fund.The production began life as a viral TikTok video about a musical adaptation of the 2007 Disney/Pixar film, eventually expanding into a genuine full-scale performance that premiered on New Year’s Day – starring the likes of Titus Burgess, Wayne Brady, Adam Lambert, and Ashley Park.The

Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, a virtual Broadway performance that has come together through the power of social media, has raised more than $1 million in premiere night ticket sales to benefit The Actors Fund.

Fans of musical theatre who’ve been missing live performances since the onset of the pandemic received a treat from an unexpected source: a “Ratouille” musical comprised of original songs, lyrics and concepts from fans on TikTok.

Meredith Woerner Deputy Editor, Variety.comIn August of 2020 a tiny TikTok song dedicated to Remy the Rat (the animated star of the 2007 Pixar film “Ratatoullie”) sparked a musical metamorphosis. Within days theater kid TikTok was all asking the same question, “What if there was a ‘Ratatoullie’ musical?”The social media app became awash with 60 second offerings from designers, singers and choreographers all adding contributions to the opus.

When Broadway producer Greg Noble heard Gayle King singing the words to “Ode To Remy” on The Morning Show some weeks ago, he knew a sort of leap had been taken. “I thought this thing that started online has not only become pop culture,” he recalls, “it’s become, like, culture culture.”

Nadine Labaki, the Lebanese actress and filmmaker who landed an Oscar nomination as director of 2018's record-smashing feature Capernaum, has been cast in the upcoming Arabic language remake of hit Italian drama Perfect Strangers.

The Disney movie Ratatouille is getting the Broadway treatment thanks to a huge TikTok sensation that blew up recently and a star-studded cast has been set to bring the musical to life.