![]() ![]() Well, consider this skeptic turned into an unabashed lover of Broadway’s most moving new production, an audacious blast of joy and enthusiasm that ends with a beach-ball party after earning it tenfold. SpongeBob SquarePants is after all a children’s cartoon, despite its occasional stealthy adult innuendo, so it stands to reason that a stage musical built around a talking bath-sponge might garner skepticism, even from those of us who grew up with the series. The kind of gimmick you’d expect to find molded into an attraction at Disneyworld or Universal Studios. Sandwiched between Kinky Boots and a perpetually crowded McDonald’s stands the signage for a new Broadway oddity that at first glance seems as nakedly commercial as the golden arches. Lights and billboards accost you from every direction in Times Square, so it might be hard to spot the Palace Theater’s marquee. “The world is a horrible place, SpongeBob.” ![]()
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