Former Broadway Costumer Reviews Ratatouille The Musical Costumes

TikTok made a hypothetical Ratatouille musical and so here is my hypothetical review of the costumes! 🙃
Special thanks to Dani (@cecilthefaun) for your TikTok expertise! Faun tomfoolery at www.tiktok.com/@cecilthefaun?...
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[@bernadettebanner]

I hope this didn't come off as a Seriously Critical Review--all you designers are awesome and deserve standing ovations for your contributions to the fabulous hilarity of this unique internet-wide collaboration. 😁 ✨

[@reddishf0x237]

Thrilled to wake up to any video of yours!

[@sealdew5348]

Someone hire her for the musicallll

[@rachealx.107]

Don't worry, it was lovely.

[@pinsneedlespaint1512]

We are forever grateful

[@sebeckley]

Julie Taymor did The Lion King costumes. She also did Across The Universe. She's a genius.

[@luckeesunshine]

"Tiktok got bored and apparently everyone decided to collaboratively design a production of Ratatouille the Musical" I frickin love the human race.

[@mirjanbouma]

It is one of our finer qualities brought to light, for sure.

[@aksez2u]

So nice to hear after everyone hating on everyone so much lately ❤️

[@nathanpanusky2531]

Me too. Me frickin too.

[@anthi6635]

It wasnt simply tiktok. It was gen z in tiktok.

[@wildrandomness]

Anyone who wants to support the musical which will be performed on January 1, 2021 7PM EST, you can purchase tickets from www.todaytix.com/x/nyc/shows/22803-Ratatouille--The-TikTok-Musical?click_id=a0a0f925443211eb820402520a180514&cjevent=a0a0f925443211eb820402520a180514&%243p=a_cj_affiliate&~secondary_publisher=Skimlinks

[@esthermcafee5293]

“You got a gig on Broadway, Steve? That’s amazing! What role?” “Supporting rat”.

[@katrinaguy701]

Hey, it's on Broadway and pays the rent! (Theoretically of course.)

[@sachadavid]

he's an extrat.

[@esthermcafee5293]

@@sachadavid Brilliant!

[@foamer443]

Need James Cagney "You dirty rat! You killed my Brudda!"

[@Feyqueen91]

It's happening. THE MUSICAL IS HAPPENING! Look it up on Google!

[@christinehayes73]

My 19-year-old son overheard this and says he wants, “Emulate the rat aesthetic” tattooed on his body.

[@casper2166]

same, honestly

[@egonerd]

Please support your son in this venture

[@angiem6674]

Yeah that checks out, I would also love to have that on my body

[@_melstay]

yup, gen-z

[@TheRealKissyRee]

I motion that you get a hoodie or shirt of some kind made with that slogan on it to match the tattoo.

[@mightbeiguess]

She said supporting rat, but let me raise you “Extrat”

[@isda3314]

LMAO

[@potatopotayto8332]

i am crying

[@mightbeiguess]

@@potatopotayto8332 no don’t

[@mpa7263]

Thank you for your contributions to ratatusical

[@mightbeiguess]

@@mpa7263 you’re very welcome.

[@ghostiegangart]

"emulate the rat aesthetic" ratcore is gonna be the dark academia of 2021 I'm calling it right now

[@bernadettebanner]

I'm here for it if we're not all dragging giant pizza slices through train stations in 2021, I will be sorely disappointed.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Do you want Skaven undercities? Because this is how you get Skaven undercities... ;)

[@bluesSGL]

Hot Girl Summer is out. Unhinged Woman Winter is in.

[@bentomai5071]

God I hope so

[@mistymoon883]

Yes! Finally my style is cool 😎 Oh wait, wearing clothes that my rats have chewed on isn’t what this is? 😔

[@nearlypeanuts4726]

I, for one, wholeheartedly accept this new aesthetic: Vermincore. Pidgeons and crows welcome!

[@PanthereaLeonis]

My basement mice agree. It's a good year to be vermin. Unless you're specifically in my basement. I've decided to set up traps. Got two down so far.

[@stripeyghost3054]

I propose we add raccoons to vermincore

[@ElinToe]

My vent rats in my space ship love the aesthetic but i dont know how im gonna find the moat beautiful pictures to show my aesthetic

[@ElinToe]

*Most

[@CherryPuppy]

@@stripeyghost3054 yes

[@fayeb7667]

I would say as well that Remy’s costume should be more human-like than the other rats to show how he he feels disassociated with the rats and he tries to be part of the human world.

[@yourlocaldemon2195]

Ooh good idea

[@dragonslayer101]

Niiice

[@jadaabbygale4002]

Cats?...huhaha...no thanks😅

[@finchsdiner1237]

700th like That felt nice

[@toffeeofthesnails]

Especially considering how his dad compares him to humans, says he is practically human, and says he spends too much time with them

[@EbonRaven]

Bernadette: “Hamilton did this...” Me: “Hamilton had rats?!”

[@waterlemonandfriends]

Yeah Thomas Jefferson

[@thebookwyrmslair6757]

@@waterlemonandfriends I was gonna say Burr ...

[@commonflax4947]

George Eacker?

[@yesthatisababytoucan.youre6983]

@@waterlemonandfriends THE GASP THAT CAME FROM MY MOUTH WHEN I READ THAT COMMENT-

[@mariunfabregas7533]

@@waterlemonandfriends h-how can someone say something _so_ controversial yet _so true?!_

[@Aghul]

That guy in the rat costume at timesquare is actually reenacting a viral video of an actual rat trying to drag a discarded piece of pizza away at a subway station!

[@MossyMozart]

@Ms Padfoot - A lot of us know about Pizza Rat, just out to make a living.

[@_veronica_r]

@Ms Padfoot Just because no one's talking about it doesn't mean that we didn't understand it...

[@annguglielmino8989]

@@_veronica_r I didn't. I live in Las Vegas. We don't have subways. 😎

[@InFondRemembrance]

A viral rat video that may or may not have been the work of Zardulu.

[@acookie7548]

i love how everyone just. walks around the guy. without even looking at him. like “eh that’s nothing out of the ordinary”

[@julianjanus6824]

Gen z Pretty much said, "fuck it. Let's write a fucking musical." "How?" "I don't care."

[@G00dTaste]

Gen z but they know how to shift: FUCK IT LETS BE IN THE UNIVERSE OF THE MUSICAL

[@julianjanus6824]

@@G00dTaste truuuuue

[@atree9284]

God this is so cringe

[@potatopotayto8332]

god you calling stuff cringe is so cringe

[@atree9284]

@@potatopotayto8332 there is no other description

[@FFigueira]

my FAVORITE costume idea I've seen was for Anton Ego, that every time he enter the stage the light changes to that one yellow light that takes away color and makes everything gray, and when he eats the ratatouille and starts remembering his childhood when he was happy the light changes to regular light and reveals he's wearing a pretty colorful outfit

[@booberfraggle]

YES

[@Bellonging]

I want to see that on stage so baaaaaad

[@freshbread4039]

BRILLIANT

[@madrgkate4643]

I've heard something similar to that but with music. They've said that ego wasn't going to sing and everything time he appeared the music was going to stop until he tasted the ratatouille that's when he will finally sing for the first time throughout the play

[@piabambusbjorn8856]

I just teared up simply reading this. hell yeah!

[@Laecy]

“An elegant Victorian lady on KZbin advised me to emulate the rat aesthetic.” That has to be the closest a sentence can get to word salad while still being factually correct.

[@danabinghammclaughlin919]

Another contender for that title is "Quackity stop acting like Kronos that's not very logchamp of you". Makes complete sense with context, but sounds insane to anyone else.

[@vincent8932]

@@danabinghammclaughlin919 -me perdonas-

[@danabinghammclaughlin919]

@@vincent8932 -YOOOOOOO SUCK IT GREEEN BOOOOOOYYY-

[@kellimbt]

When the apocalypse is over, someone is 100% going to turn this into a real show.

[@annapettit8045]

Kelli Billings Broadway Producer Ken Davenport made a tik tok about it lol

[@charlieweasley2534]

And I will 100% watch it 😮

[@laurelf6732]

good luck getting the rights

[@pinsneedlespaint1512]

I will WALK TO NEW YORK IF I HAVE TO to participate in this

[@BorbaColen]

I just felt pointing the wording here. "When the apocalypse is over" = end of human race. I just thought it was funny

[@giboi03]

Tiktok Ratatouille Musical Team: "Okay, how do we differentiate the head chef from the other chefs?" Me: "Did you forget about THE HAT?"

[@alicianoriegavelasco6114]

The buttons are also very plausible. Chef coats have buttons on both sides, so that if you do spill something on yourself, you can simply switch it around and have a clean front again.

[@MossyMozart]

@@alicianoriegavelasco6114 - That's WAAAAAY too subtle for anybody in an audience to get, especially if they are seated at the back of the house.

[@giboi03]

@@alicianoriegavelasco6114 Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I recall correctly, the chefs had different "ways" of wearing their chef's uniforms, someting akin to animated characters wearing the same uniform in alternate variations (i.e. one wears a cardigan in the middle of summer, one's coat is unbuttoned to feel breezy, the skirt length is a tad shorter than the requirement for strange reasons)

[@patriciahazeltine9986]

The "TOQUE".....a term brought up in the movie. Could very well be used as unique identifier by the kitchen staff. Then you could have a back lit Toque with a Ratatouille silhouette for Linguini, in the appropriate scenes. Even a little animated (radio controlled) rat under the lighted toque. (Yes...retired sfx artist.....)

[@giboi03]

@@patriciahazeltine9986 How should the backlit silhouette work within such a small space? I assumed it'd be a 2D/3D rat shape then have yellow-orange lights on 4 sides light up at whichever direction Linguini is facing.

[@cjck1344]

the world: **is ending** gen z: that’s cool bro but look at this rat musical

[@saigie3908]

Exactly we’re in the End times, and making a musical was a good way to lighten the mood

[@jaxeatssnacks1436]

As someone who has a chef uniform, we had to provide our own pants, shoes, and socks, but we are given chef jackets that can be buttoned up on either side, a hat, and an apron. We use buttons to customize, but our shoes have to be black and slip-resistant, but Linguini's whole character is that he is not a professional and he messes up a lot at work, so it would make sense that his pants and shoes aren't the same as everyone else's

[@thebookgoddess7380]

yes! i love this concept!!

[@jaxeatssnacks1436]

@Heartsongsutube every kitchen has their crazies, though. Thanks for your input :)

[@elizabethkirkeide2458]

I hemmed a houndstooth check pants for a chef I know.

[@sophiagonzales8974]

I know this is late but I think if linguini pants and shoes show garbage boy like make the pants and shoes dirtier than everyone else

[@jaxeatssnacks1436]

@@sophiagonzales8974 the man has to have some modicum of self respect. I'm pretty sure he would be doing his laundry, washing his shoes, and wearing aprons while cleaning to avoid stains

[@sanalone9492]

bernadette: what are we all DOING with our lives?? me: having an absolutely fantastic time, thank you very much

[@AngelDivinity111]

Its literally the digital version of those old Hollywood musicals where people are like: "I've got a barn!" "I've got an attic full of old clothes!" LET'S MAKE A MUSICAL! *dancing ensues*

[@MossyMozart]

@AngelDivinity111 - Andy Hardy (portrayed by Micky Rooney) would be proud!

[@thebookwyrmslair6757]

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers... the barn raising in Oklahoma... now I'm happily reliving my childhood watching all of those great old musicals on VHS. 💙🎶🎵🎶

[@Thenoobestgirl]

😂

[@megangifford5257]

"Supporting rat" is my new dream role.

[@yourlocaldeer6689]

Same

[@andirogynous5406]

Bernadette: "Is that the main rat?" "Are the trash costumes going to be in a comedic scene?" Me, who hyperfixated on Ratatouille for most of my childhood and thus has a near complete reel contained within my brain: 🥲

[@Thenoobestgirl]

Roll back the tape! 😂

[@thesetwofloofs5397]

Real, I’ve seen this movie like 17 times over

[@BALTHAZAAR58]

Re: Linguini's uniform Since he's not a chef or experienced in restaurants, I like the idea of him showing up in a pristine, ill-fitting uniform (oversized smock, too-short pants), like it's the only thing they had for him. As for the shoes, converse would be terrible in a kitchen (no arch support, not great tread), so they would also work really well to show that he really doesn't know what he's doing. Plus, he wore red chucks in the movie, so a nice little nod to that!

[@MossyMozart]

@Kelly M - Linguini also had an uncontrollable mop of reddish hair.

[@sophiewhitehouse6718]

I refuse to wear anything but well worn in work boots in a kitchen! New shoes are too slippery!

[@Star1412s]

Yeah, I've had a couple jobs that required non-slip shoes. They were in a major grocery store, so not technically a kitchen but still. Definitely agree with you on converse being bad for kitchen work though. I'd also say normal tennis shoes are bad because so many of them are mesh. If you're working dishes you're going to get the water all over your shoes and your feet get soaked. Did this a lot at a college dining court. It was more annoying than bad until I had to walk a mile back to my apartment in winter...

[@foxoxo4782]

Imagine: you're a noble edwardian lady and your sibling is a faun.

[@jamielaw4749]

I like how Bernadette never "bashes." She always balances criticism with praise, and her criticism is really constructive. I wouldn't even call it "criticism"... more like she builds on the designer's ideas. I love how refreshingly positive that is :) this is how react vids should be done, imo, if we want more positivity in the world ~

[@harmonybade324]

You put it very clearly into words. :) Bernadette is divine for many reasons, but most obviously for the reasons you stated.

[@billieblake6227]

A very fine teacher told me that she begins each conference with parents by giving at least two positives/ compliments to their child before going into the "needs work" part. I have incorporated that into my life and it's smoothed out many interactions.

[@ketaminepoptarts]

criticism isnt a bad thing, shes using constructive criticism instead of the kind of criticism where you just point out everything bad

[@ashreebird]

i’m a lighting designer......i feel like tiktok needs me 🦸‍♀️🐀

[@211Shinobu]

Fly, my pretty! Go! And Godspeed!

[@rachaelmariecollins9277]

Light up our lives!

[@caitie226]

onwards!

[@MossyMozart]

@Ashley Roe - We ALL need you!

[@asalways1504]

The narrow window of opportunity has opened for you, and you'd be a fool not to take it. go on, what are you waiting for?

[@brookesayewich9582]

Linguini works in a very high end restaurant where those chefs are there for 16 plus hours a day, 6 days a week and have little to no life outside of that circle. It also has a lot of monies to burn by the looks of the place and clientele. They would have a specific service for laundering uniforms, table cloths and serviettes. Kitchen employees uniforms are different for dish washers, line cooks, prep cooks, Sous chefs and executive chefs. So the buttons and cut of the coats could definitely show how linguini progress through the ranks of the kitchen. But I ain’t no costume designer, only a former cook in commercial kitchens.🤷🏼‍♀️

[@bernadettebanner]

But this is precisely the kind of practical, nuanced real-world information that makes for good costume design! ;D

[@apieceofoldlace5002]

@@bernadettebanner As a former kitchen worker, uniforms distinguish rank in a number of ways. The taller the chef hat and more pleats in it, the higher the rank. The more white on the uniform, the higher the rank. For example, lower ranks may have coloured buttons and houndstooth trousers while the head chef would have white trousers, white buttons, and possibly some embroidery on the pocket or breastpocket area indicating level of training (red seal etc). The double breasted style is practical in that it can be quickly reversed to cover a stain, and it is an extra layer to protect against hot liquids. A lower level employee would likely have to provide their own shoes, but they would have to be high traction and, in higher end establishments, black.

[@christineherrmann205]

When my ex worked in a pricey seafood restaurant up in Maine, they had the option of providing and laundering their own uniforms or having the restaurant do it. But they did have to be particular ones (even for the interns) and the amount of personal additions was limited. They all needed some sort of touque or cap. I was thinking that a line cook might be able to get away with hair containment in the form of a ball cap, etc, as long as it was cleaned every uniform change. It'd be distinctive and an eccentricity to be sure. But that costume sketch seemed to be devoid of hair containment entirely, which.... yeek

[@drartemisa21]

@@apieceofoldlace5002 this was truly interesting!

[@MossyMozart]

@Brooke Sayewich - That is all true, but I still maintain that audience members will not be able to differentiate between such small details from their seats. There has to be MORE clues. - OR -, drop the humans as costumed performers. Tell the story like the film does, from the rat's point of view. Let the rats be humans in great costumes and show the humans as large puppets or other kinds of set pieces.

[@kirayoshikage5991]

When I heard “ratatouille the musical” my first thought was remy controlling the chef boy. Like a human dressed as a rat just flinging another dudes arms around was very funny to me

[@capuchinosofia4771]

This! I think it would work wonderfully and hilariously, just a boy dressed as the design in 9:58 pushing and puppeteering the chef around xD!! Also, I imagined Remy sort of hiding from the humans behind/next to the kitchen themed scenary

[@kirayoshikage5991]

@@capuchinosofia4771 him just popping his head from tables to peek at the humans would be so cute!

[@animationlover247]

Honestly, like the ones shown in 9:57 - 10:15 best out of all of them. They perfectly blend human actors with features of rats. Plus, like in Spongebob Squarepants the musical, they proved that you don't have to look exactly like the animated characters to portray them right.

[@capuchinosofia4771]

I agree, I instantly fell in love with those designs! They capture the characters perfectly.

[@Jane-ss1pg]

I know you only showed it for a split second but I'm obsessed with the cover art for that playbill.

[@noramulvehill9750]

I had to pause it to fully appreciate "Brooks Ratkinson Theater"

[@pamspray5254]

Me too fam! Absolutely gorgeous! Mwah! *chefs kiss* Very tasteful and classy and I love the way it plays with the story's various elements.

[@MossyMozart]

@skeinsofjane - That graphic design is brilliant. I saw an online article about this collaboration somewhere where the Playbill cover was easy to study. Truly a fine design.

[@SouthernGothicYT]

I do too, I did a little internship for graphic design and my only complaint is that the silhouette should face the other direction because we read from left to right and the right side of an image is supposed to represent the future and the left side the past. So simply mirroring it would do.

[@martenmaarten]

next video: "designing and sewing my own take on a ratatouille the musical costume"

[@MossyMozart]

@That One Channel I Use To Write Comments - I am sure that you meant to write HAND-SEW your own "ratatouille the musical costume" . .^_^.

[@kenyasoogegner]

yes

[@isda3314]

hand sew* 💁🏻‍♀️

[@toffeeofthesnails]

I like the ones with the ears on the hats. I feel like the more human, but “ratty” clothing is more aesthetically pleasing, and the sketch of Remy made him look more mischievous, which could be fun!

[@theavalerie1303]

The copious amounts of the word “ratness” SENT ME.

[@FriidaK]

There are so many great designs of rats (rat “humans”?) in the nutcracker ballet, I grew up watching the production by the Norwegian national ballet every year, and their interpretation was amazing! The rat king and queen were dressed in these suits that both gave associations to rat fur and to a rich suit in gold and rat heads! It was glorious 🐀 👑 🩰 children played the small rats/ mice 🐁 loved it!

[@katherinemorelle7115]

I also immediately thought of Nutcracker. So many great rat costume designs from many ballet companies. They’d be very useful to study, as they would be the costumes that allow for movement and dance the best, I think.

[@jessicacurtis5637]

Exactly where my mind went.

[@louie-laur]

Was it the English National Ballet were it was a royaly cut outfit, but the stripes on it were accented with fur chunks? I loved that one.

[@marchi.fleming]

Same! It's almost blasphemous(e lol) to **not** look to the wealth and breadth of Nutcracker rat canon when one is contemplating a rat-sthetic (again, lol...someone stop me 😐😂) is it not?!

[@notalexus8125]

omg i didn't even think about the nutcracker, but you're so right. ballet companies have been experimenting with practical-but-still-rat-like costumes for decades and it would be really smart to look to them for inspiration

[@solorespira7880]

If Ratatouille the musical isn’t covered in a 2020 history class in the future, imma be mad

[@kin2naruto]

*laughs* And how much do you know about Punch and Judy puppet shows? That was THE form of mass-market family-friendly entertainment for centuries. But did it ever get a mention in your history class? Let alone enough of the class that you could reasonably recreate one with the information given?

[@solorespira7880]

@@kin2naruto I’m sorry but I don’t, I just thought that the whole Ratatouille thing is so so wholesome and I was just joking

[@libbybollinger5901]

@@kin2naruto I mean it depends, are we talking High School classes, or, like, college courses?

[@stellasilverstone]

I love the blue hair, ears-on-hat, patchwork version of Remy, and the "puppets only when around humans" idea. That is terrific. Thank you for showing us this. I had previously quit tik tok and now I want to see everything to do with the ratatouille musical 😆. I need to join in on the fun!

[@elisabetfinlayson8539]

I fricken love that even during an apocalypse, gen z are still gonna be chaotic. Edit: I should probably mention that I am also gen z. Anyone else born in the late 90s?🤦🏻‍♀️

[@SonsOfLorgar]

*CHAOS* is the only answer! XD

[@Thenoobestgirl]

It really is the generation of creativity 😂 And I would like to include Millennials there as well because probably at least half of the people working on this are Millennials!

[@emmaryartistry2874]

That's our entire aesthetic

[@vexusvexed]

2021 is literally the year when gen z starts to catch the world’s eye and change it for the better. I can feel it.

[@ArtemisMoon12]

@@Thenoobestgirl yeah I’ll agree. Especially with the Anton and Gusteau “actors”; it’s very much not a work of the teens alone. Not to say the teens aren’t really knocking it out of the park, but it’s a lovely melding of multiple generations.

[@furbyacolyte5604]

all this talk about humanising rats but what if--hear me out here--there was a large puppet Linguini Head and Remy's actor was the one standing behind him doing the manouevring for the cooking scene

[@stephh1149]

HOLY SHIT YES

[@thatsdisco]

YESSSS

[@beekidsart1176]

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA

[@lenastorm6280]

I don't even have TikTok, but I just LOVE this idea, that so many different people come together to make a Ratatouille musical! Also, the poster looks absolutly fantastic!

[@Savvy1718]

"What are we all doing with our lives?" Avoiding final papers, personally. And a very fine way to do it!

[@elliot1165]

ratatouille the musical will go down in history as "that time theatre kids united and made an almost full-on musical of a 2007 pixar movie about a rat"

[@jenniferlee9577]

omg Bernadette could you _please_ talk more about the costume industry in the broadway industry? i'm a huge musical theatre nerd and whenever you mention you worked in it i get so excited just thinking about the costumes!

[@bernadettebanner]

;))

[@alphie333]

@@bernadettebanner *me, freaking out at the thought of the possibility of her mentioning something rotten* 😵

[@mirjanbouma]

Yes we need more theatre talk!!!!!

[@MossyMozart]

@Jennifer Lee - Did you see Ms Banner's video where she critiques the "Hamilton" costumes? It is full of brilliant insights and is the most nuanced and well-informed costume critique I have seen for the play.

[@lordmegatrondoesntdodarken5852]

I have an idea to contribute! Remy when being under Linguini's hat can have the actor behind and slightly to the the left of Linguini. Their choreography is the same but while Linguini has a "knife to chop vegetables" Remy does not have anything ( OR ) you could give him a little hair prop. I believe a more humanized rat works better but makeup needs to match. Peasant clothes for the rats because.... yeah. Vary the cooks through discoloration in smocks and with the way their uniform is set. Even make a joke with the head chef, Skinner?, being a short dude. Actor's on their knees with the biggest hat.

[@katiem2816]

From a chefs perspective yes employees are expected to provide their own pants and shoes but they almost always fall into the same strict rules of black pants black non-slip shoes. Especially for a fancy restaurant like in ratatouille breaking uniform is basically unacceptable the red shoes would be an issue for sure I can see it being used in the show but it would probably have to get a reaction as well as his uniform being wrinkly. Chefs are very particular about uniform

[@itspowers9107]

This is accurate. However because linguini isnt a chef and is more of a janitor at first I can see them giving a pass with his uniform and just kind of sighing at him and telling linguini to get to work when they first see him. Like Linguini walks in with wrinkled clothes and bright red shoes and all the chefs look at him in disbelief or like hes stupid than the head chef yells at him to go clean something

[@aimee241]

I love this so much. “Supporting rats” is a phrase that made me howl with laughter and I don’t know

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Howling like a wolf rat?

[@ohnomylasagna]

ME TOO

[@NWolfsson]

"TikTok got bored." Me, seeing TikTok as a very ADD child: Oh, really?

[@Fisinocean]

_wow! What an amazing suprise!_

[@little_ghosty1854]

Hey, as long as the Le Festin song is in the musical, I'm all for it.

[@princessjesstarca]

Did anyone else notice that the “rat-people” characters looked a lot like “The Littles” characters that were small mouse-like people?

[@rebekahharris2738]

I used to love those books!

[@Caroline28483]

"Though, I'm not sure if this is the main rat or if this is one of the **slightly confused, slightly panicked pause and facial expression** ...supporting rats"

[@TrappedinSLC]

We’re all going crazy from Covid quarantine. And when creative people do that it gets Interesting. :D

[@sarah-phillips]

Yes! There are going to be some awesome things coming out of this! So help me if there is a Ratatouille musical with people dressed as garbage I’m in.

[@catherinejustcatherine1778]

@K, Yes, that.

[@_veronica_r]

We should start calling it: *The Covid Crazies©®™*

[@lacybookworm5039]

Brilliant 😂

[@TrappedinSLC]

Sarah Phillips I am also in if there is a Ratatouille musical. Because rats are love.

[@thiagopratesferreira2392]

I can already see linguini having a huge dance number in rollerskates and that makes me very excited

[@Lycaon1765]

"Lemur and the warthog" he's a meerkat.

[@MadnessMantra]

Thank you for saying it so I didn't have to 😆

[@monicamonsebais2217]

Same! I had to search Lemur to see if someone had commented. I felt personally attacked. xD

[@melissawoodford2669]

Okay, this is awesome, and the people out there doing these tiktoks are seriously talented. Thank you for doing this! I just have one tiny issue... Timon is not a lemur. He is a meerkat.

[@kiroropupper3914]

Omg I didn't even know who she was trying to reference when she called something a lemur. I just sat here like "...there's a lemur in the Broadway Lion King?" Didn't even notice she was trying to call out Timon

[@gabbyb9418]

@@kiroropupper3914 I don't think lemurs even live in that area...isn't it just Madagascar? Lol

[@kiroropupper3914]

@@gabbyb9418 idk. Google it.

[@mango-jango9995]

@@gabbyb9418 teah

[@ahhh4117]

Was anyone going to tell me there was Ratatouille: the musical happening on tiktok or was I supposed to find that out on costube myself

[@yellowbubble7]

It was on NPR! www.npr.org/2020/11/22/937708558/tiktok-users-band-together-to-write-ratatouille-the-musical

[@isda3314]

@@shroom6067 ikr xD

[@thatdreamurr4562]

I love the idea of the little ears in the hat and the tail, the scruffy clothes, but having the actor otherwise just look human. Seems easy, cute, and simple!

[@tan-tan-tanan]

I can very much see Remy singing about the wonderland of flavor with an emotionally-moving number.

[@toryvidaurri]

Gosh i love love love it when the internet comes together to create something so fantastical and weird and wonderful

[@Maeve_Taylor]

Me too

[@LeticiaAGentil]

I wonder what mankind could achieve if we really wanted to unite ourselves. I would start with one outlet format for the entire world

[@beafbuger]

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[@DannyBanner]

✨ TikTok Expert and Professional Mythical Creature, at thy service ✨ Deeply analyzing memes is the content I live for.

[@gamerc1029]

Thank you for thy services, it is most definitely appreciated ✨

[@davidshi451]

I love your TikTok Dani! 'Tis magical

[@mirjanbouma]

Dani! Thank you for your pat in this! I follow you on IG and love your little faun things.

[@catzkeet4860]

Lol I’d just have loved to have been privy to the first unfolding of Bernadettes awareness of this, I’m assuming via yourself. Ofc I may be entirely incorrect on that point and she may spend her free time trawling the depths of tik tok, and , good on her, if that’s the case ;) , tho I’m having trouble visualising it. In any case, will we be seeing your look at these designs on your YT channel Dani? I don’t usually brave Tik Tok.....I’m older than both of you and I’ve seen some Tik Tok reefs..... I prefer to navigate waters where I can identify the shoals, like YT.(no idea where the nautical metaphor appeared from....hopefully you understand my point, cos sometimes I confuse myself) And just wanted to say, sometimes adversity brings out the worst in humans, sometimes the best.....and this is the best!. Creativity, for no reward other than itself, flowering in a crack in the pavement!! So very cool

[@annieehm5568]

I love your videos

[@persephone-vibes]

“Although I’m not sure if this is the main rat or if this is one of the” *looks into camera in a moment of realization* “...supporting rats” 4:06

[@Treshi0]

Them applying for a costumer position in the future Interviewer: any job experience Them: I helped with Ratatouille the musical Interviewer: . . . . . Interviewer: you're hired!

[@continin]

“ We costume designers do so often love torturing our actors for the sake of *aesthetic*”. -Bernadette Banner 2020 12:17 My god I adore this woman.

[@mirjanbouma]

I half expected Rachel Maksy to show up when Bernadette said ✨ aesthetic ✨

[@katiehettinger7857]

There is an urban legend about the costume designer's revenge on troublesome actors: straight pins "accidentally" left in the inseam.

[@lenabreijer1311]

Me: Yes you have to wear the head gear. No you don't have be able to see everything, learn your moves"

[@misshauntcouture]

Oh , but wardrobe will have to hear about how itchy it is every day of the run!

[@avery9122]

i think spongebob: the musical did some really cool costuming in this exact sort of vein. spongebob, patrick, and sandy all actually bore little physical resemblance to their respective animals, but were costumed more in a sort of "what would spongebob wear if he was a person" way, which i'm super fond of. they also did some extra work to make it come across in the opening number, as well, like i know in sandy's section there's a big shadow puppet of a squirrel before she walks out onstage. this, i'm sure, was to balance out the lack of literal representation in their costumes. anyways, in some side characters, they did go more literal, which was cool too. mr. krabs had these giant boxing-glove sort of claws, squidward had two extra legs, that sort of thing. and then there was plankton! he was in head-to-toe green and wore the eyepatch, but still very human, and then he had this little puppet they'd pull out sometimes. most of the time i think it was sort of pinned to his shirt, but when they used it in the blocking it was such a delight to watch. karen had sort of the same thing, which i loved too. they also relied a lot on scenery for immersion, which could be a great way to distinguish between the rat and human world, as bernadette was saying. anyways, sorry, this was just an excuse for me to talk about spongebob. please watch spongebob it's so fun. also: admittedly, spongebob was playing with the advantage that their entire audience could be expected to know the characters already, so they could go more abstract than would normally be allowed, but i think if ratatouille were to ever happen it would have a similar advantage, so.

[@kleerude]

I really like your sibling’s idea of two different forms of rats that shift based on whether the scene is framed from the humans’ perspective or the rats’. It’s an elegant solution, and it accounts for the fact that the humans and rats often interact with the same props, but that the props would have to be vastly different sizes for each character for it to make sense (Luigi can’t hand Remi a normal sized spoon, for instance).

[@gwendolynphillips4187]

The puppet costume option reminds me of Starkid when they did the musical Starship which did have the main character as a puppet and it worked really well

[@thomasthetrainsolderbrothe2447]

"Am i going to spend my free time analyzing a meme musical that doesnt exist? Heck yes." If that isnt me i dont know what is

[@yulie4JackWild]

This single-handedly made me want to get a TikTok

[@patriciavcardoso1344]

Don't forget to follow bernadette there too!

[@catherinejustcatherine1778]

Is ticktoc safe to use now? I heard it used to be very invasive spyware.

[@carolinewalker5127]

@@catherinejustcatherine1778 it is it was bought by an American company

[@phoebeel]

@@catherinejustcatherine1778 you do know that your own government pretty much spies on you through KZbin, insta, Facebook...

[@aboz8649]

I’ve found there are some wonderful niches on tiktok

[@medicwebber3037]

“What are we all _doing_ with our lives?” Lol-nobody knows, anymore. We’re just getting through it. (And hopefully still laughing on occasion.) I enjoyed this very much. Crazy as the event on TicTok is-it demonstrates human resilience masterfully! ♥️

[@Sam-bk9sv]

As a Lighting Designer, i am SO GLAD you mentioned how important it is for a Costume Designer and a Lighting Designer to talk about the color pallete. So many people underrate the amount of work and collaboration that all sides of Tech has so i'm very happy you mentioned that.

[@billyj4317]

"If you are what you wear, then I only want to wear the good stuff."

[@MossyMozart]

@Billy J - An excellent upgrade of Remy's sentiment!

[@delanocarson7544]

I was so delighted when I first discovered this crowdsource musical concept--there's so many fresh and creative ideas. It reminded me how much I love the medium of theatre

[@theo_aetc]

right! and maybe i’m getting nostalgic for early-quarantine, but it kinda reminds me of the sense of community we got when we saw people all over the world singing from the balconies. makes me very happy.

[@writtenwinters9198]

i absolutely love that in the midst of much low inspiration and motivation for a lot of people, a ton of creators over the internet just started a goddamn musical and everyone gets to put out ideas

[@ilagrocks]

I just want to say that I really like your sillier content recently. Sometimes in your old videos I felt like you occasionally came off a bit condescending (not in a mean way, and I really don't mean that in a bad way!! it fit with your character), but this more down to earth silly posh/antiquated vibe is super charming!!!

[@connorc.9898]

This is so cool! Quick addition to the "the same uniform can be interpreted in tons of different ways" tangent re: Linguini's outfit, Carrie Hertz (2007) did an AMAZING essay on this entitled "The Uniform:, as Material, as Symbol, as Negotiated Object", and it's super interesting if anyone wants further reading on this! Just read it for my dissertation, and it raises a lot of interesting points about uniform being worn different ways by individuals to show personality (it talks a bit about people patching their clothing during war, wearing berets at varying angles).

[@angelmaden1559]

Yes! This. As a lab tech that works in the medical field I observe and participate in this every day. We all wear scrubs. The color may or may not denote your position (nurse, doctor, lab tech, radiology, etc.) depending on your hospital. There’s the doctor known for wild socks, the nurse with seasonally appropriate reading glasses neck chains, the new nurse with an earring habit, the orderly that likes interesting sneakers..... the list goes on. 😀 My experience is the tighter the dress code the more creative the expressions.

[@thebookwyrmslair6757]

I was in the Air Force (Reserves... not as strict, which matters in this case) on an aircrew. We had callsigns on our name tags instead of our regular names (standard throughout the AF), cut off our Geek flap (pen cover) and had a small individually designed patch there, the unit had their standard patch and the patch with a beaver holding a beer mug... which we wore on home station. Lots of ways on one flightsuit to express personality. And that was before the Texans slipped on black cowboy boots instead of issued combat boots.

[@AppliedGlamour]

This was adorable. I really liked the costume that incorporated the ears! I hope this eventually becomes a Real Thing. I saw a Golden Girls puppet show in NYC a few years ago that was AMAZING. The human actors were onstage operating the puppets so you got the puppet funsies but also the human expressions and movement, it was such a fun show and worked really well.

[@justanotherdamnerd4434]

I assume it was akin to ah, Avenue Q? As in the GG puppet show? Just not as...adult...

[@erynnspivey]

y’all tickets are for sale 5$ and it’s virtual and on BROADWAY and this isn’t 🧢

[@fishydinofinns9607]

Here's the link to it: www.todaytix.com/x/nyc/shows/22803-Ratatouille--The-TikTok-Musical?click_id=a0a0f925443211eb820402520a180514&cjevent=a0a0f925443211eb820402520a180514&%243p=a_cj_affiliate&~secondary_publisher=Skimlinks

[@milkshake2659]

My school play was “Mr. Toads mad adventure” and I was Ratty, and having ears attached to a hat definitely is better than a headband, I had both used for different scenes :)

[@historiansrevolt4333]

When theatre people on the internet come together it is either amazing or terrifying. Glad this is mostly amazing. :)

[@MuseAndDionysus]

"Yeah I got cast as a supporting rat, but it's fine because I'm really trying to up my puppeteering resume so this works." @me living my most theater life

[@j.a.m5083]

“Don’t hit us all with amber light” 16 year old fallow spot me: 👁👄👁 💡🔦🎥

[@namtellectjoonal7230]

It's 2022. We all stand in line at Broadway, no mask to be seen, the pandemic is over. You look up at the sign of the evening act and your heart fills with joy as you read: Ratatouille The Musical. Life is good.

[@sianthesheep]

As someone who has been spoon-fed musicals from a young age it's a fascinating insight into something I've always been curious about. If only some of these artists had been on hand when they turned Cats from a stage to a film musical!

[@ragnkja]

It might have saved that movie from the Uncanny Valley

[@anonymouscolorguardsoloist1159]

Oh, Cecil is your sibling? What a creative family of craftsmen of unique interests.

[@LotusHearted]

Yeah, the little painting of His Lordship Bernadette has was painted by Cecil, it's on Cecil's channel.

[@sweetsandcharades8383]

I thought Dani was the name of Bernadette’s sibling? She has more faun siblings?

[@LotusHearted]

@@sweetsandcharades8383 Was it Dani? I know she had a sibling who used they/them, though I may have misremembered their name.

[@sweetsandcharades8383]

@@LotusHearted Ah I see now it is the same sibling down in the description: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJ3UhGWJa95mi80

[@dunkel429]

Your process of constructive procrastination is truly inspiring. 💜

[@ryleighnevada8944]

6:54 I don't know why but I totally see Linguini wearing like super fun socks (like ones with ducks, food, idk something)

[@heythereprettybird]

"...what are we all doing with our lives..." i ask myself this on the daily in 2020.

[@lexycanon9703]

bernadette: there are ways to make uniform characters distinct me, with lighting background: yeah put a spot light on the main, you know, since it's a musical bernadette, later on: we need to get the LD in the room and talk about color palettes me: *furiously stuffing swatchbooks into a suitcase*

[@akari.encioo]

this is the biggest hypothesis to ever take place in 2020 history-

[@eleanor.shadow]

Now THIS is what the internet was created for! Not trolling or being disagreeable, but to have people get together in a joint creative effort and imagine something fabulous.

[@lisayang7083]

This is like the Harlem Shake, but with an end goal.

[@carolinepeabody3680]

A concept, alright, and bear with me: we get ACTUAL rats and we pull a reverse ratatouille on them by getting the humans to teach them how to musical theater by pulling on their fur. Edit: For the record, please don't pull on rat fur! That's just how the reverse ratatouille situation would play out, not that it's a good idea.

[@booklover8081]

Genius.

[@crazywoollady9325]

Conceptually I love this! But as a rat parent I have to say pulling on their fur isn't the way to go lol Rats are SUPER smart though. Seriously, at least as smart as dogs. You could totally train them to do musical theater (minus the actual singing obviously) if you wanted to and had the ability to let the audience see creatures that small. Would be awesome :) P.S. My rats dunk mini basketballs into mini hoops and ride tiny skateboards. It's adorable

[@lyreparadox]

@@crazywoollady9325 I'm pretty sure someone training their rats to do a scene from Ratatouille is the next stage in this collective hallucination. 🐀

[@vordjoncus]

That's Coraline. Reverse-Ratatouille is just that minor plit point of Coraline.

[@MossyMozart]

@Caroline Peabody - Ouch!!! You monster!

[@abigailblackmon1144]

The padded rat trousers were my favorite, and I think it would make a better transition, for audiences when identify rod puppets as being the same character in scenes where rats interacts with human.

[@bumblebeeproductions1673]

“A meme musical that doesn’t even exist” Broadway: “So, about that..” Yep! Ratatouille the Tik Tok musical is an actual thing that will happen in January First. I have the tickets so I can confirm it’s true. It’s more of a actors fund...like, to raise money for Broadway actors

[@adaoraelliott9254]

Wait what?! How do I watch it

[@allykatt5865]

When's albums getting released? I cant buy tickets cause broke.

[@LynnHermione]

Starkid has done the full puppet main character often and it worked very well!

[@_veronica_r]

I love Starkid! They're sooo awesome!!

[@LoveNeko64]

Starship is still my favorite musical of theirs.

[@likechopsticks]

I think techniques that require more suspension of disbelief like puppetry work better for comedy, so I guess it would depend on the tone of the musical. Avenue Q also had a mix of puppet and non puppet main characters, but again it’s a comedy

[@_veronica_r]

@@LoveNeko64 My favorite is tgwdlm XD cuz I'm basic like that lol

[@swirlingsun]

starkid is so good!! and their puppets are insane akjdjd

[@carolcruz6494]

I was expecting to see some "Ratatouille through the ages" historically accurate costumes.

[@yokokolibri]

This is exactly what social media is supposed to be doing! Bringing people together, creating something beautiful! So this is not a waste of time, because it is bringing joy to the world!

[@Tesseltjuhhxx]

I loved this! So cool to hear your insider's perspective on these insanely creative ideas :) would love to see more of this!

[@aerolb]

The TikTok Ratatouille musical is the apotheosis of the creative hivemind. lol While TikTok is not my jam, I appreciate quite a bit of the content - and I love your sibling's stuff for it. Love the fun critique! Criticism can actually be enjoyable if you do it right and done in the teaching approach instead of a tear down. It's like how an expert watchmaker takes apart a watch to show how everything works and what could have been done differently.

[@aerolb]

@Engla Hoelstad Thanks for noticing. Edited it - don't know many people who are nonbinary so I tend to slip when referring to them.

[@_veronica_r]

I'm just gonna pretend that your use of "apotheosis" and "hivemind" are intentional references to The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals XD

[@ravina6686]

When theatre kids are in quarantine

[@valeriepark9444]

Seussical the Musical also did the "person-ified animals" really well, too! The costume designer emphasized each character's personality through dress, while keeping the overall company looking VERY colorful.)

[@heatherfockler1645]

I love how you broke down all of the costumes. It gives insight to that part of costuming that most people don't really understand or get to see.

[@isabelle2940]

The fact the actual playbill account on instagram has mentioned this musical is amazing