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SpongeBob - Musical

The Broadway Musical is a stage musical initially called The SpongeBob Musical and later renamed for its national tour. Tina Landau co-created and directed the show, which has songs by different artists and a book by Kyle Jarrow. The debut performance was in June 2016 at the Oriental Theater in Chicago, and it was based on the Nickelodeon cartoon television series SpongeBob SquarePants. After a month of sneak peeks, the musical opened at the Palace Theater on Broadway in December 2017.

Nickelodeon, Sony Music Masterworks, The Araca Group, and Kelp on the Road worked together to make the show.

The Story

SpongeBob SquarePants is a musical version of the long-running animated kids' show of the same name on Nickelodeon. We are in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, where SpongeBob SquarePants and his friends and neighbors live. SpongeBob is always happy and positive, and his friends and neighbors are just as strange as he is.

SpongeBob's peaceful life is shattered when he learns that a nearby volcano, Mt. Humongous, will blow its top in the next 48 hours, destroying all of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob decides to save the day when everyone else has given up. He does this to prove to himself and the world that he is not "just a simple sponge."

Productions

On June 19, 2016, SpongeBob SquarePants opened at the Oriental Theater in Chicago. Opening on December 4, 2017, the musical had its Broadway previews begin on November 6 at the Palace Theater. Christopher Gattelli did the choreography, Tom Kitt and Julie McBride was the music incharge, David Zinn did the set and costume design, Kevin Adams managed the lighting design, Peter Nigrini took care of the projection design, Walter Trarbach did the sound design, and Charles G. LaPointe did the hair and wig design.

The musical ended on September 16, 2018, after 327 regular performances, but it didn't make back the $18 million it cost to put on. The New York Times said the musical wasn't doing as well financially as other large-scale musicals. It did best during school breaks and made $1.5 million during Christmas week. The last week of April was when it made the least money, with $543,000.

On September 22, 2019, a non-Equity North American tour started at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, New York. Later, it was said that the rest of the tour had been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which shut down theaters all over the country.