SpongeBob SquarePants
– The New Musical
ORIGINAL CAST
RECORDING
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER
22
FROM MASTERWORKS BROADWAY
Album Features the Musical’s
One-of-a-Kind Original Score
With All-New Songs Written by
Yolanda
Adams, 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, T.I.
And Songs by David
Bowie, Tom Kenny & Andy Paley
Additional
lyrics by Jonathan Coulton
Additional
music by Tom Kitt
SpongeBob SquarePants – The New Musical
Begins Performances
November 6
At the Palace Theater
on Broadway
The Original CastRecording
of SpongeBob SquarePants – The New Musical will be
released September 22 by Masterworks Broadway. Available for preorder
now, the album features a score of original songs unlike anything Broadway has
ever heard and is produced by Scott Riesett and Tom Kitt, with executive
producers Scott Farthing, Doug Cohn and Susan Vargo. A special two-LP vinyl
version of the recording will be released November 3, in anticipation of the
show’s Broadway performances which begin November 6 at the Palace Theater in
New York City.
A visionary director and a Tony Award®-winning
design team bring one of the world’s most beloved and unforgettable characters
to Broadway in SpongeBob SquarePants, with a legendary roster of
Grammy Award-winning songwriters coming together to give the musical its
distinctive voice.
“Our musical is about community – and the
diverse, colorful individuals who come to cherish and fight for it. So this
album represents a diverse community of songwriters, each singular in his or
her own writing voice – yet all a part of the kooky, kaleidoscopic world we
call Bikini Bottom,” says Tina Landau, who conceived
and directs SpongeBob SquarePants.
To write the songs that give an irrepressible
and eclectic voice to the world and the story of SpongeBob SquarePants,
the production reached out to leading songwriters in the rock and pop worlds.
The composer/lyricists include Yolanda
Adams, 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., and songs by David Bowie, Tom Kenny
& Andy Paley, with additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton and additional
music by Tom Kitt.
Kitt arranged and orchestrated all the songs
in a way that serves the specific needs of the show, while spotlighting the
distinctive voices of each songwriter.
“I cannot say enough about the care and
creativity each one of them brought to their compositions,” he says. “Every
song brilliantly encapsulates the moment they were asked to write for. And all
of these songs are beautifully crafted with melodic hooks that I challenge
anyone to jettison from their brains after the first listen.”
Conceived and directed by Tina Landau – with
orchestrations, arrangements and music supervision by Pulitzer Prize-winning
composer Tom Kitt – SpongeBob SquarePants has an original book by
Kyle Jarrow, with choreography by Christopher Gattelli. The cast is headed by
Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gavin Lee as Squidward, Lilli Cooper as
Sandy Cheeks and Danny Skinner as Patrick.
Stakes are higher than ever before 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.
SpongeBob SquarePants – The New
Musical is
produced by Nickelodeon with Sony Music Masterworks, The Araca Group and Kelp
on the Road.
TRACKLIST
OF SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS – THE NEW MUSICAL
1.
Prologue
2.
Bikini Bottom Day – by Jonathan Coulton
3.
No Control – by David Bowie
4.
BFF – by Plain White T’s
5.
When the Going Gets Tough – by T.I.
6.
(Just a) Simple Sponge – by Panic! At the Disco
7.
Daddy Knows Best – by Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic
Zeros
8.
Hero is My Middle Name – by Cyndi Lauper
9.
Super Sea Star Savior – by Yolanda Adams
10.
Tomorrow Is – by The Flaming Lips
11.
Poor Pirates – by Sara Bareilles
12.
Bikini Bottom Boogie – by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of
Aerosmith
13.
Chop to the Top – by Lady Antebellum
14.
(I Guess I) Miss You – by John Legend
15.
I'm Not a Loser – by They Might Be Giants
16.
Best Day Ever – by Tom Kenny & Andy Paley
17.
Finale: Bikini Bottom Day Reprise
18.
SpongeBob SquarePants Theme
Since premiering on Nickelodeon in July 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has emerged as a pop culture phenomenon. The series has been the most-watched animated program with kids for more than 13 consecutive years, and over the past several years, it has averaged more than 1 million total viewers every quarter across all Nickelodeon networks. As the most widely distributed property in Viacom history, SpongeBob is seen in over 185 countries and translated in more than 50 languages. The character-driven cartoon chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical adventures of SpongeBob, an incurably optimist and earnest sea sponge, and his undersea friends.
SONY
MUSIC MASTERWORKS comprises the
imprints Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait and Masterworks Broadway.
Our artists range from icons to newly developing talents in classical,
crossover and adult alternative music, plus new and legendary jazz artists. Our
vast catalog of musical theater recordings features classic shows and original
cast albums of today’s Broadway hits including Hello, Dolly! starring
Bette Midler, Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On
Your Feet!, Kinky Boots, Once, If/Then and An American in Paris.
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