He first created his account back in February but rarely opened the app until the pandemic hit. He forges a new path, which makes a lot of sense with what’s going on with TikTok right now.”Ĭomposer Mertzlufft had come to TikTok for distraction too. But he has a great amount of ambition and talent and succeeds in the face of the establishment. “ Ratatouille is about a young chef or artist who wants to make a name for himself in the world and only has a few tools to do that. “It’s a great marriage of form and content,” Breslin says. They connect Remy’s struggle to that of young creatives trying to earn fame on TikTok. Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, who run a Brooklyn-based theater company called Fake Friends and made a splash with their critically-acclaimed virtual production of their play Circle Jerk this fall, co-wrote the book for Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical. Remy crawls under Linguini’s chef’s hat and puppeteers him to great fame. He eventually teams up with Linguini, a hopeless line cook in desperate need of Remy’s direction. Worse still, whenever he enters a restaurant kitchen in his hometown of Paris, cooks leap onto their stations screaming “rat!” The culinary world seems utterly inaccessible to him simply because of his station in life. Remy the Rat is gifted with a perfect palette, but his family is content to nibble on garbage. “It was only as an adult when the story’s themes about creativity and collaboration really began to click for me.” “To be honest, when I saw it as a kid, I wasn’t a big fan,” says Jacobsen. “We just asked, ‘Do you have gray?’ ‘Do you have makeup so you can put whiskers on your face?’ ‘Can you make those mittens look like rat’s feet?’ The point was to really lean into the aesthetic of TikTok which is totally frenetic and DIY.”Īnd its themes have resonated specifically with the theater kid subsection of TikTok. Harris’ Tony-nominated Slave Play and the Jake Gyllenhaal starrer Sea Wall/A Life. “Our costume consultant, Tilly Grimes, looked through the actors’ closets over video chat,” says producer Greg Nobile, who produced Jeremy O. And with the holidays looming, Seaview couldn’t ship microphones, green screens or tiny rat ears to the cast in time to record their scenes.
Musicals, even virtual ones, typically take months, if not years, to produce.
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In early December, Seaview Productions announced that they would transform a viral TikTok phenomenon into Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, a professional production featuring veteran performers like Wayne Brady and Tituss Burgess, in just under a month. That's really what we were getting at with the brand and why we knew making this show had so much potential," Rodriguez said.The chef’s hats were never going to arrive at the actors’ houses on time. Wait until you see the show that we're making, we're promoting right now, because people are going to be surprised how deep it is. The movies really set a tone for something, they said something, they were about something that was beyond just the sex appeal of it all. Smith first spoke with Rodriguez about the massive success the Magic Mike movies have seen and how its message has translated to audiences.
Our correspondent, Rachel Smith, recently had the opportunity to speak to one of the actors from Magic Mike, Adam Rodriguez, who is also part of the mission to help the ten contestant find their magic again.
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Although each contestant truly wins by finding their self-esteem, the winner of the series is awarded a cash prize as well as the chance to perform on the Magic Mike live stage in Las Vegas. The competition revolves around a series of challenges aimed at helping the contestants gain their confidence back. Both Channing Tatum and the director of the Magic Mike trilogy himself, Steven Soderbergh, teamed up to help the group of ten men find their magic again. Until then, fans can look to HBO Max, where an unscripted competition show based off of the series is now available.įinding Magic Mike is the latest reality competition series to hit the streaming platform, which according to HBO Max itself, is "an exhilarating and sexy series that will transform a group of men into real-life Magic Mikes". A post shared by HBO Max Mike is returning with its third installment and everybody's dream man, Channing Tatum, will be doing his last dance on stage.
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