Saturday, November 25, 2017

Nickelodeon Announces Winners Of Kids' Choice Sports 2017 Australia And New Zealand

Leading kids’ entertainment brand Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand have revealed the winners of the first-ever Australian and Kiwi Kids’ Choice Sports awards!


After six weeks of voting, Nickelodeon unveiled kids’ favourite athletes during a one-hour special that premiered on Nickelodeon and FOX SPORTS 503 on Monday 20th November 2017.

Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Sports Awards was hosted by Fox Sports presenter Tara Rushton and Australian Ninja Warrior Jack Wilson, with the pair revealing the winners of eleven uniquely unconventional categories as voted Australian and Kiwi kids.

Male and female athletes from a variety of sports took out the top honours in this slime-filled celebration of sports stars, including two honorary categories with Australian athletics champion Sally Pearson achieving the highest accolade, taking home the Absolute Legend award and Yamba-based young cricketer Marc Reichler-Stillhard winning the second honorary award, for Local Legend.


The Local Legend award recognises that the sporting spirit goes far beyond the field, Marc’s win celebrates his love of the game and demonstrates how his sporting passion has brought an entire community together. Marc, who has Down syndrome, has continuously broken down the barriers between sport and people living with a disability.

Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Sports 2017 also saw two professional netball stars take home coveted mohawked blimps: 21-year-old professional netball player Jamie-Lee Price was named the Next Big Thing, and kiwi legend Laura Langman received enough public votes to be named the Hands of Gold winner.


Below are the winners of Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand's Kids’ Choice Sports 2017:

Sibling Superstars

These powerhouse pairs totally scored in the DNA-game. They’re not just rad, they’re related. On field, they’re prodigies, off-field, they’re family!

Barrett Brothers – Beauden, Scott & Jordie (Rugby Union)

#Hero

These certified superheroes of sport possess powers beyond ordinary humans, inspiring superfans of all ages with their hardcore heroics.

Cameron Smith (NRL)

Sickest Moves

These legends do stuff that isn’t humanly possible. In their sporting field, they’ve not only got the sickest skills, they’ve got the sickest moves!

Caroline Buchanan (BMX)

Clutch Player

When it comes to the crunch, these players never crumble. They’re the match winners, the unstoppables. When the game is on the line, they can be counted on to snatch victory every time.

Johnathan Thurston (NRL)

Commentary Boss

Trapped in a tiny glass box, these maestros of the microphone weave words like wizards. They know every play and every player, delivering whatever it takes in just one take, every time!

Andrew Voss (Fox League)

Next Big Thing

These superstars of the future are on the rise; this award could be all it takes to rocket them from the field into folklore.

Jamie-Lee Price (Netball)

Hands of Gold

These palm-ministers were born with fingers of fury. They drop nothing, they stop everything – their limbs are legendary!

Laura Langman (Netball)

Hardest Hitter

No ball is safe from destruction when these powerhouse players are in their element. Their physical prowess defies the laws of physics. They don’t just hit it out of the park, they hit it off the planet.

Nick Kyrgios (Tennis)

Need for Speed

Time has no power over these powerhouse speedsters. Blink and you’ll miss them, they’re aces of pace!

Daniel Ricciardo (Formula 1)

Ground Breakers

These legendary players have excelled at not just one, but TWO sporting codes. They’ve broken ground on multiple sporting grounds!

Ellyse Perry (Cricket and Football)

All Star Benchwarmer

These legends love sport to the max. If they weren’t already fully famous in their own field, they could have been all-star MVPs on the field.

Mel McLaughlin

Honorary Categories

Absolute Legend:

Sally Pearson (Athletics)

Inspiring kids everywhere with her never-say-die attitude, SALLY PEARSON has defied the odds, ignored the naysayers and overcome the impossible to earn a permanent place as a Kids' Choice Sports ABSOLUTE LEGEND.

Local Legend:

Marc Reichler-Stillhard (Cricket and Football)

Sometimes the sporting spirit goes far beyond the field. This honorary award celebrates a very special kid whose love of the game has brought together an entire community.

Congratulations to all the winners of Kids’ Choice Sports 2017!

Thinking Outside The Box | Danger Games Sneak Peek | Nickelodeon

Dr. Minyak really wants to tell Captain Man his new dastardly plan to burst the Swellview dam, but Captain Man's seems a bit too distracted playing the hit Game Shakers game 'Sky Whale' to care! Don't Nickelodeon's brand-new Henry Danger and Game Shakers crossover event "Danger Games", premiering TONIGHT, Saturday, November 25th at 8:00pm ET/PT, as part of on Nick USA's Thanksgiving Weekend!



In the brand-new Nickelodeon crossover special, "Danger Games", when Dr. Minyak (Mike Ostroski) plans to ruin Double G's (Kel Mitchell) worldwide charity concert, Captain Man (Cooper Barnes) and Kid Danger (Jace Norman) join forces with the Game Shakers to defeat Dr. Minyak and keep Double G safe! "Danger Games" will be a 90-minute (3-part) Henry Danger TV movie, with the production codes #401-403, and will guest star young fitness guru Demarjay Smith and Snoop Dogg.

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Buckle up & blast off! JoJo Siwa & School of Rock’s Breanna Yde are cranking up Ed Sheeran and singing along to Ed Sheeran’s hit song ‘Castle on the Hill’ – and so are their friends Henry Danger’s Sean Ryan Fox & School of Rock’s Jade Pettyjohn. Who do you wanna carpool with? Let Nick know in the comments on YouTube! Catch more on Nickelodeon!



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Danger Games | Behind-The-Scenes | Cooper Barnes

If you're making a totally insane 90-minute crossover event with airplane fights, dance numbers, superheroes and Snoop Doggs, you need a maniac like Steve Hoefer at the helm. Here's behind-the-scenes on DANGER GAMES, airing this Saturday [at 8:00pm ET/PT on Nickelodeon USA].



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107 Facts About The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Cartoon Facts! (107 Facts S7 E25) | ChannelFrederator

SpongeBob SquarePants first episode premiered on Nickelodeon USA in 1999 and is still going strong! Back in 2004 he made his first leap to the big screen, which has even more of that SpongeBob humor we know and love. So grab some krabby patties, because
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Behind The Android with Alex Hook | I Am Frankie | YTV

Wonder what it's like to play an android girl on a hit show? Alex Hook, star of I am Frankie, gives us all the details!



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Nursery Rhymes - This Little Piggy | Peppa Pig | Nick Jr. UK

Sing along to the 'This Little Piggy' nursery rhyme featuring Peppa Pig. Discover lots of hidden surprises on this musical journey. Play along with the interactive version on NickJr.co.uk!



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The Krabby Patty Chronicles | Martial Arts | SpongeBob Gold | Nickelodeon International *Added French Version*

Flipper shows his martial arts skills in the latest episode of The Krabby Patty Chronicles! Watch how Flipper Karate Chops to the Top of his martial arts class in the Sponge-Tastic video below!

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Inspirés par les Tortues Ninja, Flipper et Jagger décident d'apprendre les arts martiaux...

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Christopher Gattelli on Choreographing 'SpongeBob SquarePants': "It's Not Your Typical Broadway Musical"

Christopher Gattelli describes his latest cast as "unicorns," because he can't believe they exist. "It blows my mind, what they can do," he tells Dance Magazine. "They can do everything." They have to. Their characters belong to no species generally known to dance on Broadway—a crab, a squirrel, a starfish, a snail and, you guessed it, a sponge.


Photo by Joan Marcus

And the songs in the musical version of Nickelodeon's popular animated series SpongeBob SquarePants, which opens on Monday, December 4th at the Palace Theatre, are by 16 different composers, ranging from John Legend to Panic! At the Disco, from Lady Antebellum to T.I., with offerings along the way from the likes of Cyndi Lauper, Steven Tyler, The Flaming Lips, and the late David Bowie. So the choreography runs the gamut as well—tap, hip-hop, jazz, contemporary, the works. The dancing, Gattelli says, "is all over the place."

The TV series, still going strong after 18 years and two movies, is all over the place, too, as it tracks the goofy citizens of Bikini Bottom, an underwater city in the Pacific. It's for children 6 to 11, but it's loved by adults for its humor and fun-house atmosphere, is rendered in the stage version by an immersive array of flotsam and jetsam curated by set designer David Zinn.


Photo by Joan Marcus

Working within it, Gattelli notes, "is like being inside a piñata." The explosive analogy is apt—the musical's plot, conceived by director Tina Landau, puts Bikini Bottom in imminent risk of death by volcano.

Landau, an iconoclastic writer/director well-known in non-commercial theater circles, specializes in visual, theatrical theater. She has said she's not interested in staging the everyday reality you usually see in movies and television—and she's the reason Gattelli joined SpongeBob.

"I think her mind is incredible," he says, "and I was curious about how she was going to do this." With a Tony for Newsies and nominations for the Lincoln Center revivals of South Pacific and The King and I, Gattelli has built a career on dances for genuine characters—his most recent Broadway musical was the fact-based War Paint.

One meeting with Landau was all it took to persuade him to choreograph on the happy-go-lucky sponge he already knew from watching TV with his nieces and nephews, because her vision resembled nothing he'd ever worked on, and the variety of music would allow him "to flex every single choreographic muscle."

His tap chops got a particularly strenuous workout. The number contributed by They Might Be Giants, "I'm Not a Loser," is a tap extravaganza for a squid and a chorus line of 12 portraying 50 sea anemones. Playing Squidward Tentacles, SpongeBob's chronically cranky neighbor, is Gavin Lee, whose expert tapping gave Mary Poppins a showstopping number in 2006. Here, his costume gives him extra legs and arms to dance with, and, Gattelli says, "He's off the charts."


Sandy Cheeks teaches SpongeBob to "Chop To The Top"; Photo by Joan Marcus

A promotional clip before the show's tryout run last year in Chicago offered a glimpse of another Gattelli muscle—not to mention the bicycle-riding skills of the dancers. Asked about choreographing this bit, he says, "Oh, we ended up not using it—we found a better solution for that moment."

He explains that "I could do more with them physically, I could dance them more, by taking them off the bikes." The bicycles, and their elimination, illustrate Landau's process, Gattelli says. "It's so open and so collaborative—there's never a 'no.' You're encouraged to try anything. Even the wildest idea gets a hearing."

And many of the wild ideas stay. SpongeBob SquarePants, he says, "is a carnival. It's a rock concert. It's a vaudeville. You don't know what's gonna happen next. It's not your typical Broadway musical."

Currently in previews, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical will officially open at the Palace Theatre on Broadway on Monday, December 4th. For more information on SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical and to purchase tickets, visit SpongeBobBroadway.com.


Photo by Joan Marcus

Bikini Bottom is coming to Broadway in Nickelodeon's brand-new SpongeBob SquarePants musical!

SpongeBob SquarePants places the characters of the hit Nickelodeon cartoon series in an original story set in Bikini Bottom, where the 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 show features a book by Kyle Jarrow and a score arranged by Tom Kitt, featuring original songs from a plethora of recording artists, including Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Sara Bareilles, Panic! At the Disco, and the late David Bowie.

Reprising their roles from the musical’s 2016 world premiere in Chicago are Ethan Slater as SpongeBob, Gavin Lee as Squidward Q. Tentacles, Lilli Cooper as Sandy Cheeks, and Danny Skinner as Patrick Star. They will be joined by stage and TV favorite Wesley Taylor as the maniacal-yet-microscopic Sheldon Plankton and Brian Ray Norris in his Broadway debut as Krusty Krab owner Eugene Krabs.


Rounding out the cast are ensemble members Gaelen Gilliland, Juliane Godfrey, Kyle Matthew Hamilton, Curtis Holbrook, Stephanie Hsu, Jesse JP Johnson, L’ogan J’ones, Jai’len Josey, Kelvin Moon Loh, Lauralyn McClelland, Vasthy Mompoint, Oneika Phillips, Jon Rua, JC Schuster, Abby C. Smith, Robert Taylor Jr., Allan Washington, Brynn Williams, and Matt Wood.

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, 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, SpongeBob SquarePants explodes with energy.

SpongeBob SquarePants begun Broadway previews Monday, November 6th at the Palace Theatre on New York City's prestigious Broadway, before officially opening on Monday, December 4th.

To purchase tickets the SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway musical, visit SpongeBobBroadway.com, Ticketmaster.com or call 877-250-2929.

Full information about the The SpongeBob Musical can be found on the productions official website, thespongebobmusical.com! #SpongeBobBway.

SpongeBob SquarePants - The New Musical Original Cast Recording is available to purchase today at https://spongebobmusical.lnk.to/SpongebobMusicalRecording.

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