"SpongeBob SquarePants," a cartoon denizen ... asking me to come in about was kind of a theme park show with big mascot costume heads, and so I said no," said Tina Landau, the musical's director ...

returning to the opera house in the role of SpongeBob. “The actors aren’t wearing big mascot costumes — it’s much more about seeing how these undersea creatures might look as humans while ...