Hit show The Spongebob Musical will make its UK debut at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton next spring ahead of a UK and Ireland tour.
Presented by Showpath Entertainment, the Tony Award-nominated stage version of the popular Nickelodeon children’s series SpongeBob Squarepants, will open in Southampton on 5 April 2023.
Following the Southampton run which ends on 8 April 2023, the production visits Birmingham, Bradford, Oxford, Dublin, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff, Blackpool, Peterborough, Wolverhampton, Norwich, Leicester and Aberdeen. The musical will then play a five-week season in London at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall before playing the final dates of the tour at Theatre Royal Plymouth.
Based on the series by Stephen Hillenburg, The Spongebob Musical is written by Kyle Jarrow and conceived by Tina Landau. The musical which received its world premiere in Chicago in 2016 before debuting on Broadway in late 2017 features original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady A, Cyndi Lauper, John Legend, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants and T.I. Additional songs are by David Bowie, Tom Kenny and Andy Paley, with additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton and additional music by Tom Kitt.
The production, which was directed by Landau, attracted 12 Tony nominations in 2018 – tying for the highest number of nominations with Mean Girls – and won one Tony (Best Scenic Design of a Musical), four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding New Broadway Musical and six Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Musical.
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Angela Thomas
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