I Love the SpongeBob Musical

[@bigbooyah9395]

I saw this musical back in 2020, like a week or two before covid shut everything down. I had begged my mom to go see it and she thought it could be fun for a highschool freshman, and I hadn’t really shared much of it with her before. At the theater most of the people there were season ticket holders I think, so most of them were really old people that had a younger kid with them to translate, as my mom puts it. It was so incredibly fun watching it in person, and while it wasn’t the Broadway cast, the tour cast did incredibly good. I used almost all of the money I had on the little merch cart they had in the lobby at intermission, and got like two shirts and a plush of gary. Afterwards my mom was so surprised at how good it was, and I’m so glad that I got to see it before lockdowns started. Honestly, it’s a little poetic in a sense that my “Childhood” ended with one of, if not the, favorite cartoons in my family. Even though it was a musical and at the time I had considered Modern Spongebob to be irredeemable or something, it was such a great and passionate production. My mom gave me a SpongeBob shirt when I moved out that’s older than I am. Anyway love the video, I love seeing people have the same passion I do for the musical :)

[@btanman]

That's awesome! I still sadly haven't gotten to see it in person, I'm so jealous lol The passion and love from the musical is insane, and I'm so glad to see everyone who watches it have the same level of love for the show. Thanks for the comment, it means a lot :)

[@samlundberg3146]

I was in a production of this musical at my high school as plankton. One of the most fun experiences of my life. The production was incredible and all of the performances were genuinely exceptional. We actually got nominated for our local high school theater awards, the Freddys. It aired on Live TV and everything. Our patrick won best featured performance, we won featured ensemble, our spongebob won best lead actor, and we actually ended up winning best overall show. a best night of my life. This show is so dear to me and this video just encapsulates all me thoughts on it perfectly.

[@btanman]

Thanks so much, it means a ton! I'm so glad people love this musical, I went into it as in the video, thinking it was a soulless cash grab, and could not believe how STRONG it is. The amount of love put into it is insane, and I can't even imagine what it must be like to get to do it in person, I'm jealous! Glad you enjoyed :)

[@elil53]

omfg i love the spongebob musical so glad to see you talking about it

[@wariolandgoldpiramid]

I gotta compliment the editing for the video. Really good choices for the Mario background music, and they all fit the segments you were talking about really well.

[@koobiie]

underrated video and underrated musical!!!!!! i love this musical so so so much, i feel so lucky i was able to catch it on broadway

[@hotaruishere2133]

This is kinda random, but I freaking love how in ALL human portrayals of Sandy that I've seen, She's ALWAYS been portrayed as Black/African. I've never considered her anything other than a squirrel, but her being black is so unique and actually fitting!!! It makes so much sense, because her OG Squirrel-self DOES experience racism while in Bikini Bottom, and so to translate her as an American minority in real life is really aptly decided!!!! And I love that her hairstyle pays homage to OG Sandy's air-dome 😂😂😆😆💖💖💖💖 OH MY GOSH THE CHARACTER OF HUMAN SANDY IN THIS PLAY SEEMS TO TAKE SO MUCH INSPIRATION FROM ROCKET SCIENTIST ANNIE EASLEY (A black woman herself!!!!!) WHICH I THINK ENRICHES THE CHARACTER SO MUCH MORE, THATS SO FREAKING COOL AND INSPIRING!!!!

[@doodullz600]

probably a lil biased here since i played squidward in my high school production of the musical, but this is legit one of the most clever, unique, and fun musicals i have ever seen/performed in its especially impressive how an idea that could have easily been nothing more than a cash-grab for nick turned into something genuinely entertaining with really good songs, its such a shame all ppl know it for is pointless celebrity drama :/ (if yk yk), not gonna stop me from enjoying it tho lol, glad u def did

[@serenegenerally]

Yeah I still love it I just avoid uhhh… Eth*n Sl*ter in general now lol

[@birdnerd5669]

btan is so underrated omg

[@bellaberriee]

real

[@sillygirlcore]

YESS!!! i looove love the spongebob musical so much!!!! i watched the for tv recording the night it premiered i was so excited and also instantly fell in love and have since watched it and listened to the broadway cast album sooo many times, there was a solid couple months where its the only thing i would talk about (thank you autism) LOL its so nice to see such a positive and genuine video about it ^__^ i know its been 8 months BUT i would love a video going more into the detail of the production!! i think its so interesting and everybody really put their whole heart into it from the music to the sets to the costumes

[@sillygirlcore]

i could have said like a million other things here i get so excited talking about the musical but seriously this was such a good video

[@stardestroyer81]

26:48 Literal OUTSTANDING use of alliteration holy geez

[@J_Pug]

As a spongebob megafan and collector, i think btan is my new favourite KZbin channel

[@P4tton._.Fr0g]

This musical sparkles so many good memories and amazing emotions in me, it truly is unique. It captures perfectly Stephen Hillenburg's show and its spirit. The everything of it just makes you want to scream *wow!* at every second! The Spongebob musical is maybe not the best in the world but it's a clever, nolstagic, amazingly put together project and i am so glad that it exists. Sometimes the world can be sunshines and rainbows for a few hours This is my new favorite video tbh, btan's channel is a big vibe and they deserve way more views for their work!! I don't know why but it feels like if your older sibling was geeking out about their favorite show and sharing their toughts on it y'know heheh XD

[@btanman]

Thank you so much! I love how the musical's goal isn't to reshape musicals or deconstruct the source material, it just wants to have fun and tell a nice, homemade story. It's like chicken noodle soup, you can't go wrong with it!

[@P4tton._.Fr0g]

​@@btanman YES!!! Exactly what i was thinking! It's not ground breaking or anything but it's sparkly, fun and has this warm feeling attached to it who makes you want to get under a blanket and eat sweet hot chocolate till the sun shows up! All the love put into this show is heart melting and the ppl who worked on it were truly amazing :D Also thank you for answering my comment, I certainly didn't expect this--- Watched a couple of your vids and I'd like to say-- even tho it probably doesn't mean alot from a random fan of yours-- that i adore your view and takes on Spongebob! Your vidoes are so well edited and your vibe is relaxing as hell! I also love how you talk about more underrated things in the Spongebob [verse? Franchise?], like the games and the musical, it's just so cool! I wish more poeple would do that tbh there's so much more to cover about Sbsp! You really are the Spongebob guy hehehe

[@MinecraftWorld1954]

A part of me really wants to see an animated version of the Musical. The original show is amazing, but I wanna see what these songs would look like in an animated form.

[@BumBoBo]

I will never get over how underrated you are great video keep it up!

[@JamietheEmperor]

i kinda wanna watch this now

[@J_Pug]

It's so worth it

[@abbexx4283]

Just a couple months ago, my middle school did this musical. Guess who took part in it? Me. I didn’t have a major role, and it was a shortened version of the original, yet I still love it! Let me be honest, the person who played squidward for my school’s show sung better than the original *_imo_* (he could even play clarinet, and he rocked at it.)

[@katybugc5573]

34:56 plankton just starts throwing it back

[@sofiathefirst8329]

I was literally gonna comment if you had seen this musical and then I saw you made a video about it!! I’m so glad you love it the SpongeBob musical is so underrated 🍍 (Also, I LOVE PERCH PERKINS TOO!!!! He’s my favorite character!)

[@hotaruishere2133]

27:00 Dude, they missed the huge chance to make the electric skates the ACTUAL animal skates 😭😭😭😭 they're a smaller subspecies of stingray, which would have added to the layers of the show lol!!! They couldve had weird cape-sleeves to make them look like they had wing-fin things, and maybe their skin painted grey to look more like skates!!

[@doodullz600]

ngl for as cool as that sounds, it might have been a safety hazard, especially with the stunts they're pulling

[@freddiefreakedit]

im going to see my local theatre's performance of this musical in november. i am so excited. i was genuinely the first one to buy tickets

[@pineappleboidraws]

I saw this live when it first came out. I’m so happy people are talking about this musical in a good light cause it’s so good (I will say the Nick Tv version is ABSOLUTE shit IMO cause of the breaks and lack of a few songs). I fully mean it when I say this musical inspired me to make my own human designs of the cast and base parts of it off the show and the musical called The Super Sponge AU

[@btanman]

Finding out they cut POOR PIRATES from the tv version genuinely broke a piece of my heart. And btw the inspiration is awesome! While researching for the video, there was an overwhelming amount of comments from the cast about fan works (like art, animatics, letters, etc) and how much they loved it. They talked about how they constantly would retweet fan stuff or just have a bunch of nice messages from fans in their dressing rooms. It's so cool how compassionate they are about the fans!

[@pineappleboidraws]

@@btanman FOR REAL POOR PIRATES SLAPS(I will say the cast recording does it best even the live show kinda flops). It warms my heart knowing the cast loved the fan works too! So many people talked about how Stephen would’ve hated the musical and all that, but I like to think he would be happy seeing the live that went into it all(and to my knowledge he did actually give the green light to the musical as a spin-off)

[@zonkersxl8616]

This is an incredible video to compliment an exceptional musical, this video deserves 614,000 views instead of just 614(at the time of posting this comment)

[@FBIs]

3:34 its still so funny to this day that david bowie was lord royal highness 😂

[@FrankBusterLawisHere]

MORE PRODUCTION STORIES PLEASE!!!

[@Chineseisntalanguageapparently]

Great sponsor joke, glad I was too busy to skip it

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Amazing video this is super amazing

[@ghostofyou9721]

So I rewatched i this video after watching the musical and I am so sad you couldn’t include Plankton’s song because when I saw it at first I burst out laughing. This musical is brilliant and I need an animated version

[@btanman]

PLEASE NICKELODEON, YOU ARE SITTING ON UNTAPPED GOLD

[@AAAAAHFGHFH]

thank you again i love spongebob

[@RosieTheRo]

every single one of these costume designs is excellent but i gotta give special praise to Pearl's pompadour emulating the shape of a whale's head. that's the kind of character design genius i aspire to

[@guyrocketram9698]

this got me to listen to the songs as it goes along and Bikini Bottom Day is such an out of body expirience if you're familiar with JOCO's songs. like it OOZES his style. i thought like it was gonna have some resemblences to his normal stuff but not be like too recgonizable kinda like TMBG's song but NOPE. it is MAXIMUM coulton. it is such a stereotypically johnathon coulton song its halarious it caught me so off-guard. so wish it had a demo version sung by johnathon coulton. i can imagine how it'd sound so perfectly in my head.

[@cynicalpolarity2214]

Shaboingbob

[@Falkuzrules]

So Live Action Spongebob was making Sandy black before One Piece Live Action made Arlong black, huh? Ahead of its time!

[@maniczzz]

How you don’t have thousands of likes and views for every video is beyond me

[@ferdaushorts]

now i wanna watch the musical

[@heneedsloveoooh]

PRETTY PLEASE CHECK OUT INTO THE WOODS

[@user-forati]

where da fock did you find this footage????? could someone please share the link of the musical with me??? i only watched it in a horrible quality

[@wungomungo6177]

Sexuality undertones???