Ratatouille’s TikTok Musical Cast Announced: Tituss Burgess and Adam Lambert Headline Charity Benefit
It’s time to return to Gusteau’s.
An all-star cast was announced today for Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, the viral video sensation based on the popular Pixar movie. The production is coming to your screen on January 1st for 72 hours only. Tickets are on sale here.
This version of Ratatouille (or Ratatousical, as it’s been called) is bringing some of the biggest Broadway talent on board for its limited streaming performance. The story for both film and musical centers on Remy, an ambitious rat who dreams of becoming a Parisian chef. Patton Oswalt played Remy in the movie.
Tituss Burgess will play Remy, Adam Lambert plays his older brother, Emile, and Ashley Park plays no-nonsense chef Colette. Wayne Brady stars as Django, Tony Award-winner André De Shields plays food critic Anton Ego, Kevin Chamberlin plays the great chef Gusteau and Andrew Barth Feldman plays Gusteau’s “nephew” Linguini.
Other cast members will be Tony-winner Priscilla Lopez, Owen Tabaka and three-time Tony-nominee Mary Testa. The show will be performed with the 20-piece Broadway Sinfonietta orchestra.
The musical was created by TikTok members as a collective work that has engaged more than 200 million fans worldwide. TikTok fans devised the musical numbers that were inspired by the movie. The compilation has become a viral internet phenomenon in recent months.
Now, the various musical numbers have been culled together, assembling Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical piece by piece. It is adapted by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, choreographed by Ellenore Scott and directed by Lucy Moss.
Emily Jacobsen, who wrote the original Remy the Ratatouille song for TikTok, and composer Daniel Mertzlufft, whose arrangement of that song helped kickstart the online effort, are being given writing credit. Blake Rouse, who wrote two of the more popular songs on TikTok, The Rat’s Way of Life and Ratatouille Tango, also gets a nod.
Ticket sales benefit The Actor’s Fund, which supports performers and behind-the-scenes workers in performing arts and entertainment.
