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The SpongeBob Musical to Receive Cast Album

The recording will be released when the show moves to Broadway.

Danny Skinner as Patrick Star, Lilli Cooper as Sandy Cheeks, and Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants.
Danny Skinner as Patrick Star, Lilli Cooper as Sandy Cheeks, and Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants.
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The stars of The SpongeBob Musical will reunite in the recording studio to lay down tracks for a forthcoming album of the show's score. The album, to be recorded August 8-11 on the Masterwoks Broadway label, will be released when the show moves to Broadway. A timetable for a New York engagement is still to be announced.

The SpongeBob Musical had its world premiere at Broadway in Chicago's Oriental Theatre earlier this summer. Inspired by the Nickelodeon animated series, the production is co-conceived and directed by Tina Landau, with a book by Kyle Jarrow, orchestrations, arrangements, and music supervision by Tom Kitt, and choreography by Christopher Gattelli.

The cast includes Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants, Gavin Lee as Squidward, Nick Blaemire as Plankton, Lilli Cooper as Sandy Cheeks, Carlos Lopez as Mr. Krabs, Danny Skinner as Patrick, Gaelen Gilliland, Juliane Godfrey, Curtis Holbrook, Stephanie Hsu, Jesse JP Johnson, L’ogan J’ones, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Mark Ledbetter, Kelvin Moon Loh, Lauralyn McClelland, Vasthy Mompoint, JC Schuster, Allysa Shorte, Jacob Smith, Abby C. Smith, Jason Michael Snow, and Allan K. Washington.

The score includes original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton (who also provides additional lyrics), Dirty Projectors, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, John Legend, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T’s, They Might Be Giants and T.I., and a song by David Bowie.

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