The stage iteration of the unstoppable children’s TV juggernaut might not match its Stateside success in the UK, but there’s warmth and camaraderie there
The stage iteration of the unstoppable Nickelodeon children’s TV juggernaut, The SpongeBob Musical is ‘panto on acid’ We are now well into the summer silly season – and things are unlikely to get much more daft than this. Here comes the stage iteration of the unstoppable Nickelodeon children’s TV juggernaut, a musical so successful Stateside that it was the joint most-nominated production at the 2018 Tony Awards.
There is no getting around it: the 70-minute first half of Tara Overfield Wilkinson’s production is the sternest theatrical endurance test I have faced all year. Yet to my considerable surprise, in the second half the warmth and camaraderie of the storyline and the undoubtedly committed cast started to wear down my resistance.
In Kyle Jarrow’s book, Bikini Bottom is threatened by a volcano and SpongeBob and chums must come together to save the day. The script’s best line – wait for it – about SpongeBob being a sponge who ‘doesn’t absorb very much’ must be gainsaid. Even the notoriously gloomy Squidward, given a gloriously lugubrious rendition by Tom Read Wilson complete with turquoise hair and lipstick and four legs, joins in.
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