Ticket sales for the virtual performance of “Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” grossed more than one million US dollars at the premiere. The money will go to the American charity The Actors Fund, which helps employees in need in the fields of film, theater, television, music, opera and dance.

Prominent participants What started in the TikTok community as a funny musical adaptation of the famous Disney-Pixar film about a rat with great cooking ambitions, transformed quickly turned into a full-blown production, in which not only well-known TikTokers but also professional singers and actors like Tituss Burgess (“The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), Adam Lambert (since 2011 Singers from Queen) and Wayne Brady (“How I Met Your Mother”) and Ashley Park (“Emily in Paris”) participate.

“Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical” premiered on 1. January. The stream should still be available until tomorrow, Monday. Tickets are sold on a “Contribute what you can” basis at prices ranging from $ 5 to 100 US dollars. According to the initiators, the virtual musical has so far reached more than 200 million viewers.

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