By Dan Meyer
Broadway for All leads a conversation with the show s creative team January 14.
From the kitchen to the digital screen to the virtual classroom, Remy the Rat is hitting all the hot spots in 2021. A group of creators involved in
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, which raised over $2 million for The Actors Fund earlier this month, will virtually reunite for the #AnyoneCanCreate panel January 14.
The special will stream on Playbill.com (a video embed will appear above when available) and Broadway for Allâs YouTube at 8 PM ET. While free to enjoy, donations are encouraged to support The Actors Fund.
@ratatousicalthemusical/@e jaccs/TikTok Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical earned over $1 million in ticket sales from its virtual New Year s Day stream, according to The Hollywood Reporter and a tweet from the production s official Twitter account.
What started as a TikTok trend became a Broadway-scale online production featuring Tony-, Emmy- and Grammy-nominated performers like Wayne Brady, Tituss Burgess, André De Shields, and Ashley Park.
Some proceeds from the virtual performance, also known as the Ratatousical, will go to The Actors Fund, a charity that supports performers and other entertainment workers who have been hit hard by theater closures during the coronavirus pandemic.
Broadway Says Black Lives Matter
As the country confronted its long-upheld systems rooted in white supremacy in the wake of the losses of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other Black lives, the theatre industry faced a reckoning of its own, challenging members to question the systemically racist practices in place. Black artists and theatre workersâincluding performer-director Schele Williams, stage manager Cody Renard Richard, and composer Griffin Matthewsâshared their own accounts of experiences of racism in the theatre. Complicit artistic leaders were called out in pursuit of accountability, and change was demanded. The anonymous collective We See You White American Theater, on behalf of BIPOC theatremakers, released a 31-page document outlining the necessary redistribution of power and funding in the industry. Additional groups were founded and/or mobilizedâsuch as the previously formed Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Broadway