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TikTok is becoming a new platform for musical theater fans to recreate and share performances from Broadway shows. Content creators are attempting complex choreography and performances, expanding the reach of musicals to a wider audience. This engagement is helping some shows achieve profitability.
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Step for step, smile by smile, in bursts of 30 seconds or so, they imitate the originals and put their bodies into the scene.Yet these content creators are not just copycats; they are attempting and sometimes mastering the complicated dance moves and distinctive performances of shows they may never see live, let alone be cast in. Sharing the result with the world, they are making TikTok a theater of their own.Just in Time\u2018Splish Splash\u2019VideoConsider \u201cSplish Splash,\u201d a giddy number sung and danced by Jonathan Groff and members of the ensemble of the Broadway musical \u201cJust in Time.\u201dLast May, the production\u2019s social media team posted a snippet of the dance on TikTok, featuring black-and-white rehearsal footage in a split screen with the colorful finished product.Influencers like Jojo Siwa took up the implicit challenge: Can you do this at home? In June, Britini D\u2019Angelo, a popular TikTok dancer, posted a half-speed tutorial. Soon the flood of facsimiles overwhelmed the original; the official video has now been viewed 1.6 million times, the responses nearly twice that.From cramped apartments, suburban kitchens, classrooms, alleys, parks and garages they come. (Is that pompadoured guy in the white terry cloth robe at a spa?) They perform with or for their spouses, colleagues and classmates, or solo except for a partly interested pet underfoot.Some are professionals \u2014 check out Garrett Clayton and Thomas Whitcomb doing the dance backstage at a regional production of \u201cFrozen.\u201d You expect them to be good and they are.VideoGarrett Clayton, in costume as Hans in \u201cFrozen,\u201d does the \u201cSplish Splash\u201d dance backstage with his cast mate Thomas Whitcomb, who plays Sven.But for others, the choreography, by Shannon Lewis, is hard. It was even hard for Groff. For 10 weeks before regular rehearsals began, he told me, he took classes with Lewis to master what she calls the dance\u2019s \u201cdeceptive difficulty.\u201d To Groff it is \u201cthe most Peloton, high-energy workout ever.\u201dThat\u2019s clearly the case for the TikTokers. They pant. They wobble. You can sense the strain as well in their expectation-lowering captions. \u201cGuess which one of us is a trained dancer?\u201d writes a woman in a trio who isn\u2019t. An Australian man in his living room excuses himself: \u201cThis is the closest I\u2019m ever gonna be to Broadway or a West End stage but at least I tried my best.\u201dVideoLewis loves it all but does have notes. \u201cA lot of them get vampire fingers and T. Rex arms,\u201d she said in a video interview, meaning that their bodies are tense in the wrong places. \u201cOr they swing their elbows to and fro without taking the weight from foot to foot.\u201dThe strain, of course, is part of the joy: If they can do it, maybe we can too? Amateurs let us see the hard work professionals are trained to mask.Chicago\u2018We Both Reached for the Gun\u2019VideoFor those professionals, the challenge is different. Their TikToks are often calling cards, cataloging their skills or providing an outlet between gigs.\u201cWe Both Reached for the Gun,\u201d choreographed by Rob Marshall for the movie \u201cChicago,\u201d is a perfect template for them. The clip originally posted on TikTok features a large ensemble doing a jazzy Charleston overlaid with marionette moves. On TikTok it quickly became something else, as performers customized the choreography to their talents.VideoSo Michael and Matthew Gardiner, who call themselves the tap twins, offer bravura ball changes and synchronized shuffles. Ellington Hoffman gives the material a ballet makeover, whipping 10 Italian fouett\u00e9s in 20 seconds. Alex Wong and Melissa Becraft perform in front of the show\u2019s Broadway marquee, dressed as if they were already in the cast. Olivia Alboher adds aerobics into the mix, while her father, eating ice cream, looks on in admiration.VideoMichael and Matthew Gardiner adapted \u201cWe Both Reached for the Gun\u201d in their TikTok video.But somewhere between the slick professionals (check out the scalpel-like precision of Cost n\u2019 Mayor) and the winded amateurs are the almost-weres and wannabes. Devin Gibson, who goes by dev.the.menace on TikTok, danced for 12 years in his youth; now 27 and working at a Charlotte, N.C., airport, he told me he has \u201cdreams of opening my own dance studio or taking some Broadway classes or dance classes in general so I can get back into it.\u201dFor the time being, in his pajamas, he can appear in his favorite musical, sampling what that future might feel like.The Great Gatsby\u2018New Money\u2019VideoThese videos aren\u2019t happening by chance. The social media teams behind new shows drop clips into the TikTok ocean like chum, hoping to net a reward in engagement. Groff told me that around Thanksgiving, six months after the original \u201cSplish Splash\u201d post, he noticed audience members doing the dance moves in their seats. That kind of connection helped \u201cJust in Time\u201d become one of the few recent musicals to approach profitability.Tutorials are an important part of the process. Like \u201cJust in Time,\u201d \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d posted a split-screen TikTok of one of its big, athletic numbers. Choreographed by Dominique Kelley and led by Samantha Pauly, the video of that number, \u201cNew Money,\u201d offered an implicit home challenge. A step-by-step demonstration by the show\u2019s associate choreographer and dance captain (\u201cWe want to see the biggest shaking hands you\u2019ve ever given!\u201d) then broke it down. Soon, dance teachers around the country took it up.VideoRachel Arianna, a recent graduate of the theater program at Northwestern University, does the \u201cNew Money\u201d dance at home.Jennifer O\u2019Keefe, who worked \u201cfor many weeks\u201d with her amateur students at the Spotlight Performance Academy in Homewood, Ill., before making a video, told me the \u201cNew Money\u201d dance was \u201ca tough one.\u201d She added: \u201cThose two women behind me were the only brave souls willing to go on camera.\u201dElsewhere there are many such souls. At a time when Broadway fears that its shrinking place in popular culture may turn it into a niche product for the rich and connected, TikTok pushes in the other direction. The scope of these responses is enviably wide, because none of the usual barriers to participation \u2014 money, age, race, gender, geography, ability, body type or even skill \u2014 exist.VideoThat\u2019s only fitting for the \u201cNew Money\u201d videos; slipping past identity markers is, after all, a central \u201cGreat Gatsby\u201d theme. Joelis Martinez Santiago, whose profile page features a Puerto Rican flag, performs the number with her Boston Conservatory classmate Caitlin Eswein. Chris Ramos, recently cast in a Queens production of \u201cNewsies Jr.,\u201d offers \u201cNew Money\u201d as his \u201coff-bway dance audition.\u201d Sarah Jane Simpson, a member of the Rollettes, a Los Angeles-based wheelchair dance team, makes her chair a part of the choreography. Kristabel Kenta-Bibi, a University of Michigan student in hot pink, writes in a caption, \u201cGatsby brings us together.\u201dTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)\u2018New York\u2019VideoMusical theater used to have that kind of reach. My parents got their fix from the radio. My friends and I nodded our heads to vinyl cast albums. My sons listened to CDs on headphones, then streamed. Other than possibly humming along, our engagement with those mediums was a one-way street. None of them asked much of us, or offered much beyond the ear.Now, even for people who have never dreamed of doing jazz hands, TikTok has changed the shape of the experience. To participate in the challenge from \u201cTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)\u201d requires no dancing. The video of its semi-title song, \u201cNew York,\u201d taped a few months before the show opened on Broadway in November, features its leads, Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts, standing basically still for three minutes.TikTokers recreating the clip basically stand still too. The drama is not in their movement but in the subtlety of their lip-syncs and the specificity of their expressions \u2014 uncanny, considering how many different types of people are doing it.\u201cThat\u2019s the beauty of it,\u201d Tutty told me. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be a dancer, and I can promise you I was the worst dancer ever. It gives an accessibility we\u2019ve never had before.\u201dVideoSo Landon Hawkins, a 27-year-old wedding photographer in Oregon who \u201ccaptures queer love and elopements,\u201d could shoot his video in a tiny bathroom. George Cook, a 33-year-old Irish gardener and wildlife photographer working in England, made his while walking home through open heathland. A plumber, two drag queens, a mother baking, the front-of-house staff at a theater near London, a Filipino teenager in braces and a boy of about 7 with his dad around a table: All nail the impersonation.I mean \u201cimpersonation\u201d in the richest sense: the embodying of a self outside oneself. Groff, at 17, did something similar when learning the opening number of \u201cThoroughly Modern Millie\u201d by repeatedly watching the 2002 Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade on a VCR in his bedroom.His viewership? One \u2014 in the mirror. Now, with an army of TikTokers reaching millions, musical theater may be in luck. Many newbies echo what Hawkins, the wedding photographer, told me: \u201cI\u2019ve just never been really into musicals but this was amazing.\u201d Or as Groff put it: \u201cIt\u2019s so cool that Broadway has the potential to hit that pop culture button again.\u201dIf so, it won\u2019t just be the playback button. It\u2019ll also be the one that starts the recording.Produced by Maridelis Morales Rosado and Rebecca Lieberman. Rachel Sherman contributed reporting.Videos: \u201cSplish Splash,\u201d original clip via producers of \u201cJust in Time\u201d; via Garrett Clayton and Thomas Whitcomb; grid, clockwise from top left, via Beth Bowles and Cheryl Baxter, Robert Rene, The College Audition Edge, Breanne Allarie. \u201cWe Both Reached for the Gun,\u201d original clip via Miramax Films; grid, clockwise from top left, via Chayil Brooks, Olivia Alboher, Devin Gibson, Alex Wong and Melissa Becraft; via Michael and Matthew Gardiner. \u201cNew Money,\u201d original clip via producers of \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d on Broadway; via Rachel Arianna; grid, clockwise from top left, via Sarah Jane Simpson, Jennifer O\u2019Keefe, Joelis Martinez Santiago and Caitlin Eswein, Kristabel Kenta-Bibi. \u201cNew York,\u201d original clip via producers of \u201cTwo Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)\u201d on Broadway; grid, clockwise from top left, via Theatre Front of House Team, Landon Hawkins, Daisy Diamond and Lola Fierce, George Cook.\n \n Jesse Green is a culture correspondent for The Times.See more on: TikTokRead 11 commentsShare full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT", "ai_headline": "TikTok Is Broadway\u2019s New Stage", "ai_simplified_title": "TikTok Users Recreate Broadway Musicals Online", "ai_excerpt": "TikTok is becoming a new platform for musical theater fans to recreate and share performances from Broadway shows. 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Performances in N.Y.C.Broadway Guide‘The Wind-Up’‘Data’‘Irrationalities’Where do musicals live?Many people would say on Broadway or on film. Maybe on tour or in a community theater.But don’t tell that to TikTok.TikTok, the video sharing platform with 2 billion mostly younger users, is now home to songs and dances from Broadway and beyond. It’s where more and more fans go to experience musical theater — and to recreate it. Step for step, smile by smile, in bursts of 30 seconds or so, they imitate the originals and put their bodies into the scene.Yet these content creators are not just copycats; they are attempting and sometimes mastering the complicated dance moves and distinctive performances of shows they may never see live, let alone be cast in. Sharing the result with the world, they are making TikTok a theater of their own.Just in Time‘Splish Splash’VideoConsider “Splish Splash,” a giddy number sung and danced by Jonathan Groff and members of the ensemble of the Broadway musical “J...
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Simplified: TikTok is a video sharing platform
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Simplified: TikTok has 2 billion mostly younger users
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Social Media , Performing Arts 🆔 a116390d-2c81-4a28-8cdc-3a7aa6c5aa3bSimplified: TikTok is home to songs and dances from Broadway and beyond
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Social Media , Performing Arts 🆔 a116390d-4c17-4a6b-8a31-c1f83ac6e511Simplified: Content creators attempt and sometimes master complicated dance moves and distinctive performances of shows they may never see live
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Social Media , Performing Arts , Statistics 🆔 a116390d-6757-4395-a8b4-fed08ccd8c60Simplified: The official video of "Splish Splash" has been viewed 1.6 million times
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Simplified: Garrett Clayton and Thomas Whitcomb did "Splish Splash" dance backstage at a regional production of “Frozen”
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Simplified: Shannon Lewis choreographed "Splish Splash"
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Simplified: Groff took classes with Lewis to master dance’s “deceptive difficulty”
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Simplified: “We Both Reached for the Gun” was choreographed by Rob Marshall for movie “Chicago”
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Simplified: Michael and Matthew Gardiner call themselves tap twins
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Simplified: Devin Gibson danced for 12 years in his youth
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Simplified: “Just in Time” became one of few recent musicals to approach profitability
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Performing Arts , Social Media 🆔 a116390e-51b3-44b3-bf47-6f373508f74eSimplified: “The Great Gatsby” posted split-screen TikTok of one of its big athletic numbers
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Simplified: Dominique Kelley and Samantha Pauly choreographed "New Money" video
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Simplified: Jennifer O’Keefe told the author the “New Money” dance was tough
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Simplified: None of the usual barriers to participation exist
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Simplified: Slipping past identity markers is a central “Great Gatsby” theme
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Simplified: Musical theater used to have that kind of reach
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Simplified: Participating in the challenge from “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)” requires no dancing
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Simplified: The video of “New York” features Sam Tutty and Christiani Pitts standing still for three minutes
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Simplified: You do not have to be a dancer
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Simplified: Groff did something similar when learning the opening number of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” by repeatedly watching the 2002 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Par...
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Simplified: Many newbies echo what Hawkins told the author
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Simplified: Broadway has the potential to hit that pop culture button again