

One of the most popular songs is a duet between Colette and Linguini sung by between Blake Rouse and Acacia Pressley, composed by Rouse. Using the TikTok "Duet" feature, users added vocal tracks atop each other to develop musical numbers. Subsequent videos repurposed prior contributions, such as the "Ode to Remy" lyrics and orchestration, to add new elements, like set design, choreography, and a playbill designed by artist Jess Siswick. This video received over a million views and spawned thousands of subsequent TikTok videos in a collaboration between theater students and professionals expanding on the possibility of a Disney musical based on the Ratatouille film.
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He composed the orchestration in Logic Pro X using software instruments he associated with Disney musicals-particularly the finale of The Hunchback of Notre Dame-including tremolo strings, French horn, trumpet, brass, timpani, and tubular bells. Two months later, in October, another user, Daniel Mertzlufft, who had previously achieved fame for his "grocery store musical" composition, adapted and arranged the short song as a Disney musical finale. The song went viral after Brittany Broski, a user with millions of followers, reused the music. In August 2020, Emily Jacobsen, an elementary school teacher, recorded an ode to Remy, the film's main character, among other TikTok video odes to fictional characters. Eventually TikTok users created parodies, including videos of lackluster cooking accompanied by a parody of "Le Festin" with fake French words.

Earlier in 2020, TikTok users shared cooking videos accompanied by "Le Festin", a song from the Disney/Pixar film Ratatouille. In total, the production raised $2 million for The Actors Fund and had 350,000 total viewers.ĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic, users of the social media app TikTok collaborated on musical numbers based on unconventional subjects, such as a grocery store. The benefit concert was streamed for 72 hours beginning on January 1, 2021, followed by an encore presentation on January 10, 2021. In December 2020, Seaview Productions announced a charity benefit concert presentation of the musical.
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From there additional TikTok users continued to add to Mertzlufft's video to envision a full musical, including a playbill, scenic design, choreography, and more songs. This led to another TikTok user, Daniel Mertzlufft, arranging Jacobsen's tribute as if it were a finale to a Disney musical. TikTok user Emily Jacobsen created a short comedic song in tribute to Remy, a rat with a talent for cooking and the main character of the film, in August 2020. Ratatouille the Musical (also known as Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, Remy The Ratatouille, or Ratatousical ) is an internet meme and crowdsourced musical based on the 2007 Disney/ Pixar film Ratatouille.
