Scrolling TikTok on Broadway with Dr. Trevor Boffone

A conversation with Dr. Trevor Boffone, author of TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age

TikTok might not seem like a natural fit with Broadway — or theatre history. But there’s a fascinating side to TikTok’s relationship with musical theatre, one that has changed how people from all over the world engage with and share their enthusiasm for their favorite shows.

Dr. Trevor Boffone’s TikTok Broadway: Musical Theatre Fandom in the Digital Age explores how the worlds of social media and musical theatre collided between 2018 and 2022 — in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic — producing phenomena like the viral Ratatouille TikTok musical and the Grammy-winning Unofficial Bridgerton Musical.