Listen to This Fabulously Produced Musical Version of Pixar’s Ratatouille

Ratatouille is among our favorite Pixar animated features, and with good reason. Brimming with heart, it’s the story of a talented, misunderstood young rat named Remy who is separated from his family and strikes out into the big city of Paris with a dream—to become a great chef, despite the limitations of being an unwanted rat in a human-dominated world. Featuring charming performances from Patton Oswalt and others, along with mouthwatering animation of the secret world inside professional kitchens, it’s an infinitely re-watchable delight that stands among Pixar’s best in any proper ranking. But one thing that Ratatouille never featured was original songs.

That’s no longer true. A duo of theatrical composers named Dan and Laura Curtis began writing some Broadway-style tunes for Ratatouille as a lark, and if their recent reddit post is to be believed, everything sort of snowballed from there. Or as they put it: “So we decided to write some songs to make Disney’s Ratatouille into a musical… got carried away, got an orchestra… and cast of West End performers…this is what we did!”

Behold, the closing number, “Anyone Can Cook Finale.”