Yet still it closed nine months later without recouping its costs. On Broadway, the show nabbed six Drama Desk awards and earned 12 Tony nominations, winning one for set design. It’s funny being at the gym and no one knows you’re listening to (Just a) Simple Sponge.” “I didn’t watch the cartoon as a child,” admits the elfin 27-year-old.
“Plus I’ve got to wear an extra pair of legs, so it’s going to be a nightmare.” Over by the mirror, Lewis Cornay – SpongeBob himself – is working out the complicated handshakes he and Patrick (Irfan Damani) will exchange. In one corner of the west London dance studio, the ex-Pop Idol star Gareth Gates is practising the steps he will perform as the whingeing Squidward in the big tap-dancing number. “What’s so good is that you don’t stay in one musical style for very long,” explains Tara Overfield Wilkinson, director of the new touring version, when I drop in on rehearsals. We haven’t suddenly made SpongeBob Scouse The original cast included Stephanie Hsu, later Oscar-nominated for Everything Everywhere All at Once, and the earworm-heavy score featured new songs by bands such as the Flaming Lips, Aerosmith and Panic! at the Disco, who wrote the show’s air-punching anthem (Just a) Simple Sponge.
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Reviews of the trippy $20m production, in which the future of Bikini Bottom is threatened by a volcano, amounted to a series of approving variations on the theme of: “What were they smoking when they came up with this?” The New York Times even suggested theatre-goers might benefit from “some illegal inhalation”. The SpongeBob Musical, based on the Nickelodeon cartoon that first aired in 1999, opened on Broadway in 2017.
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