The pandemic has shuttered concert halls around much of the globe, but that hasn’t stopped musical theater aficionados from flexing their creative muscles — on TikTok, of course.
A crowdsourced musical based on the 2007 Disney-Pixar animated film “Ratatouille” is now set to hit the virtual stage, after thousands of TikTok creators posted original songs, dances, set designs, playbills and puppets on the content-sharing app.
It all started when New York teacher Emily Jacobsen posted an ode to Remy, the film’s protagonist who charts an unlikely course as a rat who becomes a chef.
The power of her viral kernel of an idea blossomed into an organically grown, full-fledged show: …
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