Translating a cartoon to the Broadway stage is strange business (unless, of course, youre Disney).
SpongeBob (newcomer Ethan Slater) is a compact, yellow-shirt-wearing young man with impressively square-looking broad shoulders.
Humongous threaten to obliterate their home and their lives.
Credit: Joan Marcus
If that sounds like a lot… it is.
Not everything works, and theres often too much going on onstage at any given moment.
On TV, the shows outlandish wackiness is smartly confined to two 11-minute segments per episode.
ButSpongeBobcertainly deserves points for creativity.
Slaters impression of SpongeBobs laugh, too, is uncannily accurate.
