with Ethan Slater Danny
Skinner, Brian Ray Norris, Wesley Taylor, Christina
Sajous, and Gavin Lee
Based on the series, SpongeBob SquarePants,
created by Stephen Hillenburg Book by Kyle Jarrow
Music Supervision, Orchestrations and Arrangements by Tom
Kitt Choreography by Christopher Gattelli Television
Direction by Glenn Weiss Musical Production Conceived and
Directed by Tina Landau
Following a critically lauded run on Broadway, members of the
original award-winning Broadway company of The SpongeBob
Musical: Live On Stage! will reunite to film the show for
television in front of a live theater audience. The live television
production will capture all-new depths of theatrical innovation
where the power of optimism really can save the world. The
SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! will air on Nickelodeon this
December.
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Rob Bagshaw, Executive Vice President of Nickelodeon Live Action
Unscripted and Live Events, said: “What better way to celebrate the
20th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants than to bring this wildly
imaginative Broadway musical to Nickelodeon for a wider audience.
We could not be more excited that fans and families of all ages
will now have the opportunity to experience live actors portraying
these beloved characters in a whole new way with The SpongeBob
Musical: Live on Stage!”
Tina Landau said: “I’m so thrilled to be able to revisit the
show in a new light and with our original cast members. The whole
creative and I are excited to go back into the world of Bikini
Bottom and discover its new life in TV broadcast form. But above
all, I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to share the joy and
spirit of our show with a wider audience. That’s what matters most
to me – the joy.”
The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! cast will include
Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gavin Lee as
Squidward Q. Tentacles, Danny Skinner as Patrick Star,
Brian Ray Norris as Eugene Krabs, Wesley Taylor as
Sheldon Plankton, and Christina Sajous as Sandy Cheeks. The
ensemble will include Kyle Matthew Hamilton, Katie Lee Hill,
Curtis Holbrook, L’ogan J’ones, Jai’len Josey, Kelvin Moon Loh,
Lauralyn McClelland, Vasthy Mompoint, Bryonha Parham, Oneika
Phillips, Jon Rua, JC Schuster, Abby C. Smith, Robert Taylor Jr.,
Allan Washington.
Adapted from the beloved Nickelodeon series, the Broadway
musical was hailed by The New York Times as “brilliant” and
“effervescent candy-for-the-spirit” by New York Magazine. This new
musical earned its place on 2017’s “Best of Broadway” lists
including Broadway.com, BuzzFeed, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast,
Deadline, ET Online, Forbes, Time Out New York and Variety.
Named Best Musical by the Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics
Circle and earned 12 Tony Award nominations – the most nominated
musical of the 2017-2018 theatre season – winning for Best Scenic
Design of a Musical (David Zinn).
Acclaimed Steppenwolf director Tina Landau and the
groundbreaking designers behind Fun Home, Hedwig, and Spring
Awakening have brilliantly reimagined Bikini Bottom for the
Broadway stage, on tour and now for television, bringing the spirit
of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and pure theatricality.
With an original score from some of the biggest names in pop and
rock, The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! explodes with
energy.
Stakes are higher than ever before as SpongeBob and all of
Bikini Bottom face the total annihilation of their undersea world.
Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope
seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center
stage.
The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! is a musical
production conceived and directed for the stage by Tina
Landau, book by Kyle Jarrow, orchestrations,
arrangements & music supervision by Tom Kitt, with
choreography by Christopher Gattelli, produced for
television by Austin Shaw with television direction by
Glenn Weiss. Nickelodeon’s Vice Presidents Paul J
Medford and Susan Vargo serve as Executive Producers,
alongside Senior Vice President of Music & Talent Doug
Cohn and is executive produced and overseen by Executive Vice
President of Unscripted and Live Events Rob Bagshaw.
This one-of-a-kind television musical event features original
songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith,
Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex 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. (Clifford Harris, Jr.) Domani
Harris and Darwin Quinn and a song by David Bowie
and by Tom Kenny and Andy Paley. Additional lyrics by
Jonathan Coulton. Additional music by Tom Kitt.
The design team includes scenic and costume design by David
Zinn, lighting design by Kevin Adams, projection design
by Peter Nigrini, sound design by Walter Trarbach,
hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe and casting by
Telsey + Company/Patrick Goodwin, CSA.
The Original Cast Recording is available now from Masterworks
Broadway wherever music is sold and streamed.
The SpongeBob Musical is now on tour across North America.
Airdate, additional programming plus further casting will be
announced at a later date.
Since its launch July 17, 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has
reigned as the number-one kids’ animated series on TV for the last
17 years, while generating a universe of beloved characters, pop
culture catchphrases and memes, theatrical releases, consumer
products, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical and a global fan
base. SpongeBob SquarePants is the most widely distributed property
in Viacom International Media Networks history, seen in more than
208 countries and territories, translated in 55+ languages, and
averaging more than 100 million total viewers every quarter.
SpongeBob SquarePants is created by Stephen Hillenburg and produced
by Nickelodeon in Burbank, Calif. The character-driven cartoon
chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical adventures of
SpongeBob, an incurably optimist and earnest sea sponge, and his
undersea friends.
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