READ: How One Hopeful Cold Call Became Broadway’s Indecent In an unprecedented move, producer Daryl Roth announced the play’s closing only to rescind the notice and extend the play for more to see. Indecent tracks the history of Asch’s controversial play and the risks a troupe of artists will take to perform it. Considered in violation of obscenity laws, productions of God of Vengeance were shut down. Both Taichman and Vogel had been taken by Sholom Asch’s 1923 play God of Vengeance, a love story between two women. Paula Vogel’s 2017 Tony Award-nominated play has earned a reverence in the theatre community for its story, for its vision by director Rebecca Taichman (who won the Tony for it), for the subtly stunning performances (notable Katrina Lenk), but most of all for its own honoring of artmaking. It’s an hour and 42 minutes of absurdity at its finest. The Broadway show featured a segment “Too Much Tuna” popularized on YouTube, where George and Gil invited a different celebrity guest to join them onstage at each performance. ![]() Geegland and Gil Faizon, respectively, two Upper West Siders obsessed with turtlenecks, raccoons, improperly emphasizing words, and thinking they know more about everything than they do about anything. Directed by Alex Timbers (who also directs this Netflix capture), Oh, Hello first hit Off-Broadway in 2015 as an expansion of a sketch on Comedy Central’s Kroll Show. John Mulaney and Nick Kroll took Broadway by storm when they brought their altacocker alter egos to the Broadway stage in 2016. (The scenic design by Tony winner Beowulf Boritt is a particular highlight.) A comic meditation on all the reasons he did not want to become a father-and how most of those reasons came true when his daughter came into the world-Birbiglia’s show, directed on stage and film by Seth Barrish, reveals with startling honesty the challenges of new parenthood and what makes it all worth it anyway. The solo show bowed at the Cort Theatre October 25, 2018, and hit Netflix in 2019. Mike Birbiglia was one of the first comedians to cross the threshold to theatre with the creation of his first solo show Sleepwalk With Me. This time, Birbiglia takes his humor to Broadway with The New One. But if you missed the live broadcast, you can still watch it! Members of the original cast (including Ethan Slater as SpongeBob, Danny Skinner as Patrick, and Gavin Lee as Squidward) reunited for a 2019 live re-staging on Nickelodeon. The musical featured choreography by Christopher Gattelli, with orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt. David Zinn’s jaw-dropping costume and scenic designs, Kevin Adam’s lighting design, and Peter Nigrini’s projection design created the world of Bikini Bottom, which was under threat of demise as Mount Humungous threatened to erupt unless SpongeBob and his friends could save the day. Among them: Plain White Ts, Yolanda Adams, Sara Bareilles, John Legend, and David Bowie. ![]() The musical featured a patchwork score with multiple Grammy-nominated and Grammy-winning recording artists and songwriters contributing individual tunes. Krabs (and his daughter Pearl), the evil Plankton, as well as bit characters like Mrs. Inspired by the Nickelodeon cartoon from Stephen Hillenburg, SpongeBob SquarePants The Broadway Musical-as it was first called-offered a completely original storyline (from director Tina Landau’s concept and Kyle Jarrow’s book) with all of the memorable characters of Bikini Bottom, including SpongeBob, his snail Gary, his best friends Patrick Star and Sandy Cheeks, his curmudgeonly neighbor Squidward J. But wait! There’s more!įrom acclaimed West End revivals to Off-Broadway stages, from Broadway to houses in Texas and Louisiana, here are more titles to keep your appetite for theatre satisfied:Ībsorbent and yellow and porous, SpongeBob SquarePants officially opened on Broadway Decemat the Palace Theatre in an explosion of color, innovation, craftiness, and joy. If you’re anything like us, you’ve already devoured the offerings on our list of 15 Broadway Plays and Musicals to Watch On Stage From Home. ![]() From The SpongeBob Musical to Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s Oh, Hello, from Lincoln Center Theater’s The King & I revival to Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, here are 26 more captures of live performance to watch from home.
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