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Judy and Mickey would have loved the TikTok ‘Ratatouille’ 2021’s answer to ‘Let’s put on a show!’
Peter Marks
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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 Actors Fund.
At a running time of 51 minutes, and with perhaps only half the numbers required for a full adaptation of the 2007 animated Oscar-winner, this “Ratatouille” is a mere appetizer. But with a winning Tituss Burgess as the human embodiment of Remy, the Parisian rodent who can stir up a mean beef bourguignon, it is a promising first course. And the harbinger of ....

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