Lilli Cooper and Ethan Slater in the Chicago premiere of "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Photo: Joan Marcus) This past fall, Slater was able to sit in on the taping of an episode in Los Angeles at Nickelodeon Studios. Slater has been leading SpongeBob SquarePants from the beginning the musical premiered at Chicago’s Oriental Theatre last summer, when many of the animators, writers and creators from the cartoon stopped by to meet the cast. Years later, SpongeBob SquarePants has become a multi-billion-dollar media franchise, with a full-length film, theme parks, a Season 11 start slated for this September and a splashy Broadway musical waiting in the wings.Īt the center of that musical is Slater, who will make his Broadway debut in the role of SpongeBob himself when performances begin this fall.
“My favorite show was SpongeBob-like everyone,” he recently told .Ĭreated by former marine biology teacher and cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg, SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on Nickelodeon in 1999.
He remembers watching SpongeBob SquarePants, the Nickelodeon cartoon about a relentlessly optimistic yellow sponge, at his “bubby’s house” at the age of seven or at his middle school friends’ houses before rehearsing with his childhood pal band, Pink Milk & Cashews.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS EPISODES NEW 2017 SERIES
's Fall Preview series captures the stars and creators bringing these stories center stage in the new season.Įthan Slater didn’t grow up with cable. The 2017-2018 theater season has officially begun, and a slew of highly anticipated musicals and plays, both brand new and revisited, are set to bow.
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