The delicious Ratatouille musical TikTok has already sold over a million dollars in tickets

The TikTok Ratatouille musical – aka the Ratatousical– debuted online on New Years Day and has already sold over a million dollars in tickets, in early 2021, which is pretty cool.

The musical reunited on TikTok for several months, with creators including songwriters, fans, set designers, costume designers and choreographers, who came up with musical numbers, songs and even a fake Playbill for the ” ‘fictional’ show based on the 2007 Disney / Pixar animated film.

Then suddenly it was actually happening: Seaview Productions announced that they were producing the show in association with TikTok, and even Disney / Pixar gave their blessing. The show has got big Broadway stars to perform the crowdsourced songs including Wayne Brady who performed with rat makeup as Django, Andrew Barth Feldman as Linguini, Ashley Park as Colette, Kevin Chamberlin as Auguste Gusteau, Andre de Shields as Anton Ego, Adam Lambert as Emile, and Tituss Burgess as Remy, the Cooking Rat. The 20-piece Broadway Sinfonietta orchestra also took part.

“The Rat’s Way of Life” and “Ratatouille Tango” created by TikToker Blake Rouse are featured in the musical, along with “Anyone Can Cook” and the song that started it all, “Rémy la Ratatouille.” It didn’t have all the glitz and glamor of a high-end Broadway production, but the caliber of performances given from home by actors, musicians and dancers (yes, even a kick line!) Is first class.

Feldman summed it up after the debut: “fantastic”.

Towards the end of the series, we also get to see a lot of the creators of TikTok who helped bring it all together. I’m not a theater critic by any stretch of the imagination but I love musicals, and I have found Ratatousical to be a creative triumph, sorely needed at a time when Broadway and the rest of the world have been disrupted by the pandemic. And I agree with the reviewer of The Los Angeles Times who says the show may signal a new path for musical theater to follow, one without a guardian preventing new talent from having their chance to shine.

I won’t spoil the plot, but it sticks pretty closely to the original film’s storyline. You can still get tickets for the one-time show via streaming, which will be available until 7 p.m. ET on January 4. I highly recommend you check it out.