SpongeBob SquarePants, 2017

The run closed September 16, 2018

Opened

December 4, 2017

Closed

September 16, 2018

Performances

327

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Palace Theatre

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 70th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it16 named

Gaelen Gilliland
Lauralyn Mcclelland
Vasthy Mompoint
Oneika Phillips
Jc Schuster
Brandon Espinoza
Catherine Ricafort

9 of these 16 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Tina Landau

Choreographer

Christopher Gattelli

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awardscategories not held

1 win from 12 nominations. We don't know which categories.

Recordings 5 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against SpongeBob SquarePants, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical (originally titled The SpongeBob Musical, later retitled for the national tour) is a musical, co-conceived and directed by Tina Landau with songs by various artists and a book by Kyle Jarrow. It is based on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants and made its world premiere in June 2016 at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago. Following a month of previews, the musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in December 2017. The musical follows SpongeBob SquarePants’ attempts to avert a volcanic eruption that could potentially wipe out all life in Bikini Bottom. The show was produced by Nickelodeon, The Araca Group, Sony Music…

• The film, which cost somewhere between $60 and $70 million to produce, did well during its first month, but less well financially in the United States than either The Incredibles or The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 473
• Mascots; The Carmen Miranda Hat, SpongeBob SquarePants and David’s 2 Husky Dog Magnets. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 1 2005 May 31 2006 Viagas Robert Second Annu, p. 494

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 5 recordings of SpongeBob SquarePants document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.