It augurs the arrival, in the midst of a fraught time for theater and other performing arts, of a bona fide new musical. Emily Jacobsen, a Disney-adoring teacher in Hartsdale, N.Y., prompted other contributors to add their imaginations to a “Ratatouille” musical on TikTok. An interlude definitely in need of elaboration: The moment that De Shields’s Anton tastes Remy’s ratatouille. One would hope for deeper exploration of the magnetism between the buoyantly matched Feldman and Park, as Linguini and Colette. “I won’t let a narrow-minded view determine what vermin can do,” Burgess sings, in the musical’s best number, Mertzlufft’s “Remember My Name.” It’s a safe bet that as “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” makes its way in the world — digitally or otherwise — the producers will remember his.

Source: Washington Post January 02, 2021 18:56 UTC