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But I don’t think a lot of us saw it being taken this far. Gabbie Bolt, composer, “The Good in the Garbage”: The idea of a rat having to be onstage or the notion of a chorus of singing rats is quite funny to a lot of people. Mertzlufft: what led people to contribute and say, “Oh my God, this actually could work.” This could be the song, this could be the dance numbers, these could be costumes.” People started to become invested in this TikTok musical theater baby everyone’s collectively taking care of.
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And then people sort of started saying, “Hey, check this out. The resulting lavish orchestration, envisioning Remy flying over the audience on high wires with glitter and confetti everywhere, has almost a million views.īlake Rouse, composer, “Ratatouille Tango”: It started as a joke. For the orchestration I did lots of tremolo high string, tubular bells, a glockenspiel, a French horn - Alan Menken uses a lot of French horn. It screamed to me a big, big Disney ending, like Little Mermaid‘s “Part of Your World” or the ending of Hunchback of Notre Dame. That’s what it sounded like: It’s triumphant, and you can hear the entire chorus singing about Remy as he comes up on center stage. Mertzlufft: I knew it needed to be the Act 2 finale of a Disney show. I had no intentions of trying to explain it. Jacobson: The ratatouille is just, like, a symbol for your dreams. “Remy, the ratatouille?” He’s not actually the dish. Mertzlufft had experience writing viral TikTok musical theater parodies, having created a trend based on Louisa Melcher’s “New York Summer” earlier this year.ĭaniel Mertzlufft, composer, “Remy the Ratatouille (orchestral version)”: The lyrics didn’t actually make sense. But it wasn’t until last month - when composer and arranger Daniel Mertzlufft was tagged in a TikTok using the sound - that the idea of actually creating a Ratatouille musical came to be. Jacobson’s song went viral after Brittany Broski, a creator with 5.8 million TikTok followers, posted a TikTok using Jacobson’s sound, on top of footage of a life-size Remy dancing at Disney World. love ballad #remy #rat #ratatoille #disney #wdw #disneyworld #ratlove #ratlife #rats #Alphets #Stanle圜up #CanYouWorkIt It was just supposed to make my sister and a few friends laugh. I like making up random songs, and I thought it’d be really funny to use words like “praise,” as if Remy was like a god. Jacobson :I n my childhood, I got dragged to church every week and I memorized all these different songs from the Catholic church. The lyrics of the song are, “Remy, the ratatouille/the rat of all my dreams/I praise you, my ratatouille/may the world remember your name.” Ratatouille served as creative inspiration for Jacobson back in August, when she posted a TikTok of herself singing a paean to Remy in falsetto. For children it would go over their heads but, as an adult, I did feel a connection to those stories. I watched it recently and i couldn’t believe it was rated-G because it had all of these themes - feeling like an imposter and not living up to your potential. It’s not actually a musical, and it has more of an adult vibe. It was a little bit popular, but it didn’t take off like Frozen. They’re all packed with this Disney magic that is ripe for musicalization.Įmily Jacobson, composer, “Remy the Ratatouille”: I t’s one of those movies that really gets overlooked by people.
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RJ Christian, composer, “Anyone Can Cook”: It’s an underdog story about Remy, a rat who wants to be a chef, mixed with a second underdog story of Linguini, who comes from nothing and owns his father’s business, and another underdog story of Colette, a woman in a male-dominated industry who becomes the sous chef of this restaurant. Ratatouille, though critically acclaimed upon its release, was not a commercial juggernaut like Disney properties Frozen or The Lion King - yet over the past few months, it has enjoyed a renaissance on musical theater TikTok, where members of Gen Z are building a musical adaptation from scratch (potential litigation from Disney be damned.) We spoke to over half-a-dozen of the creators and, what follows, is a brief oral history of how Gen Z theater kids came together in the midst of a pandemic and made a musical first as a joke, and then in concert as a community.įor the uninitiated, a brief summary of Ratatouille:
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Specifically, Remy, the Parisian rodent at the center of Ratatouille, the 2007 Pixar movie about a rat who loves to cook.