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Photo Flash: It's a Beautiful Bikini Bottom Day! SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Celebrates 100 Performances on Broadway!

By: Mar. 05, 2018
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It's a beautiful Bikini Bottom day! SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical celebrated 100 performances on Broadway on March 2. Check out photos from the celebrations below!

Reimagining the beloved Nickelodeon series, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, now playing at Broadway's Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway at West 47th Street), explodes with energy and features an original pop and rock-infused score by a legendary roster of Grammy® Award-winning songwriters. Led and conceived by visionary director Tina Landau and a Tony Award®-winning design team, this new musical brings the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and pure theatricality. SpongeBob SquarePants features a book by Kyle Jarrow, music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt and choreography by Christopher Gattelli.

SpongeBob SquarePants is a one-of-a-kind Broadway musical event with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alexander Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants and T.I., and a song by David Bowie and by Tom Kenny and Andy Paley. Additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton. Additional music by Tom Kitt.

The creative team includes scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Kevin Adams, projection design by Peter Nigrini, sound design by Walter Trarbach and hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe.

The SpongeBob SquarePants cast includes Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gavin Lee as Squidward Q. Tentacles, Lilli Cooper as Sandy Cheeks, Brian Ray Norris as Eugene Krabs, Danny Skinner as Patrick Star and Wesley Taylor as Sheldon Plankton.

The ensemble includes Alex Gibson, Gaelen Gilliland, Juliane Godfrey, Kyle Matthew Hamilton, Curtis Holbrook, Stephanie Hsu, Jesse JP Johnson, L'ogan J'ones, Jai'len Christine Li Josey, Kelvin Moon Loh, Lauralyn Mcclelland, Vasthy Mompoint, Oneika Phillips, Jon Rua, JC Schuster, Abby C. Smith, Robert Taylor Jr., Allan K. Washington, Brynn Williams, Matt Wood and Tom Kenny as the French Narrator.

The SpongeBob SquarePants Original Cast Recording is available now from Masterworks Broadway wherever music is sold and streamed.

SpongeBob SquarePants is produced by Nickelodeon with The Araca Group, Sony Music Masterworks and Kelp on the Road.

Photo Credit: Jeremy Daniel

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SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Celebrates 100 Performances

Photo Flash: It's a Beautiful Bikini Bottom Day! SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Celebrates 100 Performances on Broadway!  Image
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Celebrates 100 Performances

Photo Flash: It's a Beautiful Bikini Bottom Day! SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Celebrates 100 Performances on Broadway!  Image
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Celebrates 100 Performances

Photo Flash: It's a Beautiful Bikini Bottom Day! SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Celebrates 100 Performances on Broadway!  Image
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS Celebrates 100 Performances




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