The Spongebob Musical is coming to Murray Bridge
Tickets are now on sale for Murray Bridge Players and Singers’ family-friendly production of the Broadway hit based on a Nickelodeon TV show.
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Are you ready, kids?
The cultural phenomenon that is Spongebob Squarepants is coming to the stage in Murray Bridge.
Tickets are now on sale for Murray Bridge Players and Singers’ production of The Spongebob Musical, a hit Broadway show about the sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Led by award-winning producers Hannah Smith and Amelia Rooney, MBPS’ youth theatre ensemble will present six performances of the show – in a shorter, family-friendly format – at Murray Bridge Performing Arts and Function Centre in June.
Ms Smith invited everyone around the Murraylands to book a ticket.
“It’s such a bright, colourful, high-paced show that it can appeal to everybody,” she said.
“I’m going to bring my nan to it … she might not understand (the references to the Nickelodeon TV show), but the songs are great, the dancing’s great, everything is really fun.”
In the musical, Spongebob and his friends have to save their town of Bikini Bottom from an impending volcanic eruption.
Will our hero save the day, or is Spongebob just a simple sponge?
And will the villanous Sheldon J Plankton be able to turn events to his advantage?
Ava Miller will play the lead role alongside Emmory Chilvers as Patrick Star, Morgan Hoff as Squidward, Zoe Foran as Sandy Cheeks, Freddie Mitchell as Mr Krabs and Braeden Watts as Sheldon.
They and the other 23 members of the young cast, ranging in age from eight to 17, have been rehearsing for months.
Zak Langton, playing the mayor of Bikini Bottom, described the show as “so gangster”, and invited everyone to “come and worship our super sea star saviour”.
Cast member Archer Smith promised it would keep adults and children entertained.
Chilvers said it was the most fun she had had on a show – and she took centre stage in last year’s high school production of The School of Rock.
The full version of the show, based on the Nickelodeon TV show that had been running since 1999, debuted on Broadway in 2017.
Notably, it features songs by a five-star lineup of famous musicians, including Panic at the Disco, Cyndi Lauper, the Flaming Lips, Sara Bareilles, John Legend, They Might Be Giants and even David Bowie.
“It’s a really, really fun show,” Ms Smith said.
“Everybody knows it – everybody has watched Spongebob at some point in their lives.”
So don’t wait for a title card from a French narrator – jump on the Murray Bridge Players and Singers website today and book yourself a ticket.
Bikini Bottom is depending on you.
- Tickets:$20/15 at mbplayersandsingers.com.au/book-tickets.
- Performances: 7pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays, from June 7-14, 2025.
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Peri Strathearn
