'Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical' Raises Record $2 Million for Actors Fund

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“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.

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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.