Nickelodeon's endearing, absorbent, animated oddball optimist SpongeBob SquarePants and his surreal undersea habitat Bikini Bottom get a Broadway-scaled stage treatment in “The SpongeBob Musical,” an inventive, diverting, decidedly promising musical trying out in Chicago. Director Tina Landau and a crack design team privilege simple theatrical imagination over literal interpretations of the cartoon uni…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PM on June 20, 2016