Source: COURTNEY BOWERMAN via Lansing City Pulse
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For Marcus Fields, Riverwalk Theatre’s production of “The SpongeBob Musical” at the end of the month will be a fitting directorial debut. Both he and his twin brother, Randy, are die-hard fans of the Nickelodeon show.
“I have a SpongeBob tattoo, and I quote SpongeBob all the time,” Fields said.
He was pleased to find that the musical director, Alan Sloan, is also a fan.
“The first thing that he said to me when we were looking at things together was that he was disappointed that ‘Sweet Victory’ isn’t in the show,” Fields said. (The song appeared in the fan-favorite episode “Band Geeks.”)
“The SpongeBob Musical” opened on Broadway in late 2017 and closed in September 2018. Although the national tour was cut short by the COVID pandemic, a “pro-shot,” or professional video recording, of the Broadway show aired on Nickelodeon in 2019.
As with many big-budget Broadway shows, the original production had a lot of elaborate set pieces, costumes and props. Compared to that, Fields knows that Riverwalk’s version will have a lot to live up to.
