![]() “I have a blast from beginning to end, but my best moment is my first one,” Slater admitted. Clearly, this is a job for SpongeBob SquarePants. Tentacles ( Mary Poppins’ Gavin Lee, who gets in some show-stopping, four-footed hoofing) and an ornery copepod named Sheldon Plankton (played just short of mustache-twirling by Wesley Taylor).Īll reside in comic chaos at the bottom of the sea in a place called Bikini Bottom, which, as the new musical begins, is menaced by Mount Humongous threatening to blow its volcanic stack-a hot-and-cold-running set-up that’s pulled off easier in broad strokes than on Broadway. In the hissible camp are a crabby octopus named Squidward Q. His best buds are a slow-witted starfish named Patrick Star (Danny Skinner) and a karate-kicking Texas squirrel named Sandy Cheeks (Lilli Cooper). SpongeBob SquarePants himself, a cockeyed optimist if ever there was one), is a sea sponge that looks like a kitchen sponge, lives in a submerged pineapple and works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab. They certainly have their work cut out for them, turning 2-D into 3-D, breathing some identifiable depth into cartoon critters. “There are about 15 different layers of paint, each going back to whoever had this dressing room.” Their shows fade in review- An American in Paris, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Annie, all the way back to Liza’s at the Palace and beyond. ![]() “You can see it’s rubbing away,” he points out. The doorframe to the bathroom, just for instance, is done up in a grayish green-“Glenn Close’s color”-which has begun to chip since Sunset Boulevard departed. With minimal coaxing, he’ll gingerly conduct a tour of “the Garland room” and show off his archeological findings of other former Palace residents. (Probably that just masks the disbelief of a new stranger-in-paradise.) Off-stage, he also gives every impression of being an unflappable live-action cartoon, maintaining a steady, goofy grin as if he really did step out of the funny-papers. He’s the show’s chief cheerleader, a wellspring of affable silliness. ![]() But the disarming, child-believing charm that the Nickelodeon series exudes caught everyone off-guard, touched soft spots in long-calcified critics and turned into a hit. He did it the hard way, too-in the title role of SpongeBob SquarePants, the first Broadway musical to be spawned from an animated cable kids-show (which, let’s face it, is about as far from Main Stem smash material as a show can possibly get).
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