Page 38 - Patrick Foley News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The annual BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) has been a very different experience for students this year. The much-anticipated trip to the RDS, often involving long bus journeys from all over the country, could not go ahead as planned. But the show must go on despite the Covid-19 restrictions, and what better event to make use of technology to showcase the work of young people from all over the country? In the first ever virtual exhibition,550 projects from 213 schools have been shortlisted by the judging panel to take part in the finals this year. Of the 1,055 student...

The crowdsourced online musical, about a rat with culinary dreams, is a promising first course.

You know you always should save room for dessert, right? On Friday night, the theater community kicked off the New Year with a virtual benefit performance of Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, an adaptation of the beloved 2007 Pixar film cooked up over the last few months by creators on the platform. The charming, pre-taped show has already raised more than $1 million for The Actors Fund and features a mix of Broadway talent (Tituss Burgess, Ashely Park, Andrew Barth Feldman, and André De Shields among them) and the TikTok creators who made the musical an online hit. It’s available to strea...

A standout moment of the 2007 movie “Ratatouille,” about a rat who teams with a human to achieve his culinary dreams, comes when cynical restaurant critic Anton Ego is served the titular food. Though he’s initially confused by the offering in a former five-star eatery — one chef calls the humble plate of stewed vegetables “a peasant dish” — the first bite transports the critic back to his childhood, and he unabashedly gobbles the rest of it up in glee. I had the same, pleasantly surprised reaction while watching “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical,” a virtual proof-of-concept...

Judy and Mickey would have loved the TikTok ‘Ratatouille’ — 2021’s answer to ‘Let’s put on a show!’ Peter Marks © Courtesy of "Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical From left: Joy Woods, Tituss Burgess and JJ Niemann in “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical.” Like every other place in Theater Land, Tryout Town has resettled on the Web. It actually proves to be an advantageous setting for works in progress such as the embryonic and revolutionarily assembled “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical,” which made its debut Friday, in a benefit digital production for the Ac...