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Breathe - A New Musical 2021
BREATHE, a new musical from New York Times bestselling novelist Jodi Picoult (in her theatrical debut) and playwright Timothy Allen McDonald, will have its world premiere exclusively on Overture+ on Friday, May 14th at 8 PM ET. Written as the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded, Breathe follows five couples grappling with the virus’s impact on their lives, families, relationships, society, and health. Told in five interlocking suites - each with a different songwriting team and director - Breathe features an all-star cast that includes Tony Award-winners Kelli O’Hara and Brian Stokes Mitchell, Patti Murin, Colin Donnell, Denée Benton, Rubén J. Carbajal, Matt Doyle, Max Clayton, Daniel Yearwood, T. Oliver Reid and Josh Davis.
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Inspired by the 2007 animation about a culinarily inclined rat, this new show was crowd-sourced on the popular social-media platform
3 January 2021 • 12:57pm
Ratatouille the TikTok musical
Has the most significant American musical of the year already happened? The word “phenomenon” is used with giddy abandon about cultural happenings, but it has a tang of truth in the case of Ratatouille the musical – or Ratatousical, as some are calling it.
Based on the much-loved 2007 Pixar/Disney animated feature – about a sensitive, morsel-savouring rat called Remy who develops a rare culinary aptitude (thereafter taking the world of Parisian haute cuisine by storm) – it landed on New Year’s Day for a 72-hour window of streaming opportunity. Such was the demand to see it that this “concert” benefit premiere has raised more than $1m for actors and behind-the-scenes workers (via the Actors Fund).