The SpongeBob Musical to tour UK and run in London in 2023
The SpongeBob Musical is to make its UK premiere in 2023 with a tour and run in London
The SpongeBob Musical originally played on Broadway between 2017 and 2018 and before touring North America.
A new UK production will open at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton on Wednesday 5 April 2023 then visiting Birmingham, Bradford, Oxford, Dublin, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff, Blackpool, Peterborough, Wolverhampton, Norwich, Leicester and Aberdeen.
The show will then spend five weeks over the summer at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall prior to visiting Plymouth.
Further details including cast and creatives are to be announced.
The stakes are higher than ever in this dynamic stage musical, 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 power of optimism really can save the world!
The SpongeBob Musical has a book by Kyle Jarrow with an original song featuring songs from number of writers including 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, John Legend, Panic! At The Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants and T.I. (Clifford Harris, Jr.), David Bowie, and Tom Kenny and Andy Paley.
The Broadway production had orchestrations, arrangements, and music supervision by Tom Kitt, choreography by Christopher Gattelli, scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Kevin Adams, projection design by Peter Nigrini, sound design by Walter Trarbach, and hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe.
A pro-shot of the Broadway show was filmed and released in 2019 on Nickelodeon.
