![]() Raising more than $1 million in its first night and drawing 160,000 ticket sales as of Saturday morning, the musical ( available for streaming until Monday evening) is undoubtedly the buzziest virtual theater event of the pandemic. ![]() “The pendulum of good fortune swings back and forth whenever it decides, so it is up to us to pull our weight when we’re doing OK and give back,” Burgess told BuzzFeed News. ![]() Tituss Burgess ( Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), who starred as Remy in the streaming concert, himself received help from the nonprofit early in his career. On the first day of 2021, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical premiered on as a benefit concert for the Actors Fund, which is providing aid to out-of-work actors and other entertainment workers during the pandemic. The story of how Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical (or “Ratatousical,” affectionately) went from TikTok in-joke to a streaming Broadway production almost sounds like a musical itself: Jacobsen posted her song on TikTok just to make her friends laugh, but wound up skyrocketing to viral fame, capturing the imagination of countless theater geeks bored at home during the coronavirus pandemic, and, with a whole lot of teamwork and creativity, achieving internet magic. ![]()
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