Pixar's Ratatouille as a musical (Concept)

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 2:46pm

This is fantastic. I can picture this much more at Disney World or any of the cruises than on Broadway. Hope their dreams of working at Disney comes true!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXwL1XokoMg#t=74

 

[A1st]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 3:00pm

No way this would happen. Don't get me wrong I would love to see this, but here's why this wouldn't come to fruition:

Story Time! For years, John Lasseter of Pixar had been talking to Thomas Schumacher about making Toy Story into a musical.  In theory that sounds great, until Tom thought about what a Toy Story Musical would mean. All the characters in Toy Story are a fraction of the size of actual humans, which would also have to be portrayed by people. So scale would be a big issue. Unless you had giant puppets as people and the toys human-sized, it would have been a very big issue. Hence, the idea was scraped

Now think about Ratatouille: A large portion of the show would be characters who are several inches long, along with humans who are several feet tall. Basically there would be 2 options: make the rats puppets and humans human-sized,  or make the rats human-sized and the humans as giant puppets.

All in all, would not be feasible. But interesting concept!

Updated On: 5/16/15 at 03:00 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 3:10pm

Please God no

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 3:38pm

I agree. No God, Please NO!

[Kad]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 3:48pm

The stage version of Beauty and the Beast had humans playing small objects.

[Starship]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 4:02pm

Ratatouille has so much heart and is definitely one of Pixar's greatest. I don't see personally how it'd work, but if Disney can find a way to make humans play animals and kitchenware on stage, they can find a way to make this work.

[Daddy Warbucks]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 4:17pm

Scale issues aside, I'm sure there were a lot of people who were laughing their heads off at the idea of turning Lion King into a stage musical.  How crazy is that!  

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 4:22pm

But, this could work at a theme park though?

[TheatreKid3]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 4:53pm

BEAUTY kind of solved the problem by making it clear that the enchanted objects were people who were becoming increasingly more and more like objects - rather than already the objects themselves.  This is stated several times in the Broadway version, with Cogsworth gaining a wind-up handle about halfway in.  They are portrayed as much more human with object characteristics than just the objects.  The idea is that, one the last petal falls, they will become the objects entirely. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 5:02pm

No Pixar show should be a musical until Pocahontas and hunchback make it to broadway. But I could imagine wall-e as a musical. They could just keep the robots as robots and let the humans do the singing.

[SharoninB]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 5:20pm

Didn't they do plates in Beauty and animals in the Lion King

[nycgogetter]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 6:47pm

TOY STORY was being developed for a stage version, and then scuttled off to one of the cruise lines . . .

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDZWOaiSZ2I

[theatreguy12]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 9:42pm

I'm a Disney fan…where it comes to the theme parks and cinema.

But for Broadway, and this particular idea, I'd have to join the "Please, God, no" group.

I mean, where does it stop?   Kitchen Sink….the Musical.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 5/16/15 at 11:24pm

The lyrics could use help but wow, that woodwind underscoring in the first song is astounding.

[brdway411]

Posted: 5/17/15 at 11:05pm

As a member of the culinary underbelly and This is probably my favorite Disney flick EVER. For the love of Goddess  NO!!!!!! Don't do it please. 

[_IrisTInkerbell]

Posted: 5/18/15 at 9:49am

Isn't there a Finding Nemo musical out there, too? That would have the same scale issues, how was that solved there?

[mpd4165]

Posted: 5/18/15 at 9:52am

"Isn't there a Finding Nemo musical out there, too? That would have the same scale issues, how was that solved there?"

Finding Nemo involves puppetry and wire work. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/18/15 at 11:16am

But finding nemo is different to Ratatouille in that humans don't play a huge part in Finding Nemo.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 5/18/15 at 11:33am

Ratatouille is my favorite Pixar movie, and I share other people's concerns about bringing it to the stage. With the right creative team, though, I'd give it a chance. I'm sure there's a way to solve the scale issues.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/20/20 at 12:38pm

As I mentioned in another thread, looks like the theatre geeks on tiktok and Instagram have created Ratatouille the musical