SpongeBob SquarePants
Opening Night: December 4, 2017
Closing: September 16, 2018
Theater: Palace Theatre
A legendary roster of Grammy® Award winners. A visionary director and a Tony Award®-winning design team. One of the world’s most beloved characters. Turn them loose on Broadway and what do you get? SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, THE BROADWAY MUSICAL. Brilliantly reimagining the beloved Nickelodeon series, Broadway’s best creative minds bring the musical to life with humor, heart and pure theatricality. Be there when SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face catastrophe – until a most unexpected hero rises to take center stage. Get ready to explore the depths of theatrical innovation at SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, where the power of optimism really can save the world.
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December 4, 2017
For what it’s worth — and we’re talking millions of dollars here — you are never going to see as convincing an impersonation of a two-dimensional cartoon by a three-dimensional human as that provided by Ethan Slater at the Palace Theater. Mr. Slater plays the title role in “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical,” the ginormous giggle of a show that opened on Monday night.
This may sound like dubious praise. But think about it. How many of those legions of figures who gambol through stage adaptations of animated movies — teapots, lions, fake Russian princesses, ad infinitum — seem to have been transliterated from the screen without any dilution of their inked-in essence?
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December 4, 2017
Holiday cheer has arrived — in the form of “nautical nonsense.” Who else but SpongeBob SquarePants, the resolutely upbeat yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea, could convince a mob of sea creatures panicking over their imminent annihilation to hold hands and sing that it’s the “Best Day Ever”?
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December 4, 2017
Sponges lack nervous systems. Just as well. Broadway — where the hooks can come out — is no Bikini Bottom when it comes to hosting an optimistic porifera best known as a kid’s cable television brand, an animated star now bobbing dangerously close to irrelevance in cultural waters that flow far too quickly for a simple sponge to survive with impunity merely by singing out to Squidward Q. Tentacles, Patrick Star and Sandy Cheeks that this is the best day, ever. Which — I am here to tell you, dear reader — is usually far from the case.
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December 4, 2017
Nickelodeon brings its long-running underwater toon franchise to Broadway with this eye-popping, psychotropic (geddit?) musical fantasia about friendship and community, directed by Tina Landau.
Bubbles, streamers, confetti or beach balls? Duh, all four, obviously. That’s what comes cascading down on the audience during the ebullient finale of SpongeBob SquarePants, a splashy $20 million bid by Nickelodeon to add a new monster tentacle to its lucrative animated media franchise — giving the yellow porous one his very own Broadway musical. READ THE REVIEW
December 4, 2017
Children should feel free to take their parents to Tina Landau’s psychedelically inspired version of the whimsical kiddie cartoon show that’s been making a fortune for Nickelodeon since 1999. Kyle Jarrow’s book retains the two key elements of the Nicktoon: the cheerful sea sponge’s unquenchable optimism and his selflessly heroic efforts to rescue his friends from whatever problems happen to pop up. But Landau’s hallucinogenic stagecraft transcends the show’s television origins by speaking a visual language that’s three-dimensional and boldly theatrical.
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