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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ryan Gilbey

‘Nightmare! I’ve got to tap-dance with four legs!’ Inside the new SpongeBob Musical

‘Some illegal inhalation’ … the Broadway version of The SpongeBob Musical.
‘Some illegal inhalation’ … the Broadway version of The SpongeBob Musical. Composite: Getty

“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!”

If these words don’t set your foot tapping, or prompt famished thoughts of Krabby Patties, then you may not be the target audience for a musical that brings to the stage the psychedelic deep-sea inhabitants of Bikini Bottom: namely, the irrepressibly chirpy SpongeBob SquarePants, his dopey best friend Patrick Star and the squirrel Sandy Cheeks, an inventor with martial arts moves.

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