It's the Best Day Ever because you can sing your heart out with a not-so-simple sponge this Saturday, January 4th at 7 p.m. (ET/PT), with a special sing-along broadcast of
The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! on Nickelodeon USA. Get ready for the show with a sneak peek at Ethan Slater and all of the citizens of Bikini Bottom performing "Best Day Ever"! Check it out with the spongeriffic video clip below!:
Homes across America can host their very own
SpongeBob SquarePants karaoke session January 4 when Nickelodeon re-airs the special with sing-a-long lyrics!
The small screen adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical originally aired December 7,
drawing in 1.7 million viewers across four channels - Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons and Nick Jr..
The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! is currently rolling out across Nickelodeon's channels and programming blocks worldwide.
The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage!, which, following a critically lauded run on Broadway, reunites members of the original award-winning Broadway company! Joining the cast is veteran SpongeBob SquarePants voice actor Tom Kenny as “Patchy the Pirate,” performing the original Sara Bareilles song “Poor Pirates.”
The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! was filmed for television in front of a live theater audience, capturing all-new depths of theatrical innovation, where the power of optimism really can save the world.
“I’ve had a blast portraying live-action suburban buccaneer and President of the SpongeBob SquarePants Fan Club, ‘Patchy the Pirate,’ since the character’s first appearance in season two of
SpongeBob SquarePants way back in 2000,” said Kenny. “I loved The SpongeBob Musical, and I was thrilled to be included in it both in pre-recorded (‘French Narrator’) and songwriter (‘Best Day Ever’) forms! But to now have the opportunity to actually step onstage and perform alongside members of the original Broadway production is truly a unique honor. It’s ‘meta times ten,’ and I think Nickelodeon’s audience will really get a kick out of it!”
In
The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage!, the stakes are higher than ever, as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom face the potential of 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 and takes center stage.
The SpongeBob Musical: Live On Stage! includes
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,
Christina Sajous as Sandy Cheeks and
Tom Kenny as ‘Patchy the Pirate’. The ensemble will include
Kyle Hamilton,
Katie Lee Hill,
Curtis Holbrook,
Jesse JP Johnson,
L’ogan J’ones,
Jai’len Josey,
Kelvin Moon Loh,
Lauralyn McClelland,
Vasthy Mompoint,
Bryonha Marie Parham,
Oneika Phillips,
Jon Rua,
JC Schuster,
Abby C. Smith,
Robert Taylor Jr., and
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.
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, and directed 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,
Rob Hyman,
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 additional songs by
David Bowie, and by
Tom Kenny and
Andy Paley. Additional lyrics by
Jonathan Coulton. Additional music by
Tom Kitt. Along with “The SpongeBob Theme Song” by
Derek Drymon,
Mark Harrison,
Stephen Hillenburg, and
Blaise Smith.
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.
Ethan Slater and the cast of “The SpongeBob Musical: Live on Stage!”. Photo credit © Alex Bailey/Nickelodeon
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