Everyone sit on the floor, close your eyes." And she turned off the lights, put on the demo. And then when we finally got the song, Tina came in, she had a CD in her hand, she said, "We have the demo. When I found out that he was writing a song for the show, that was a true freak-out moment. He came back and we were talking and he was like, "I saw articles about the show, it looked amazing, and then I saw your last name and I thought 'I've got to go find out if we're related.'" My entire life people have been saying like, "Are you related to Christian Slater?" and I would say, "I don't think so but I wish." So for him to come back and say, "Do you think we're related?" is a pretty good culmination of that.ĭanny Skinner as Patrick Star and Ethan Slater as SpongeBob in SpongeBob SquarePants.Ħ) Which of the artists who wrote music for SpongeBob were you most fanboying over? Recently they called a guest for me at the stage door, and I went to see who it was, and it was Christian Slater. One of my absolute favorite pieces of fan art is this fanzine that we got with illustrations by different artists of each scene throughout the show in chronological order.ĥ) Who is the coolest person to come see the show? It was magic.Ĥ) What is the most interesting present you received at the stage door? I've never had to stifle a laugh so hard in my life. So I look up and he's not there, and so I say my line and I look down and Danny is running in, in slow motion, doing everything he's supposed to do in the air but on the ground instead. When we closed in Chicago we all did that bit onstage after the bow.ģ) What was the worst technical difficulty you experienced during the run?īy far one of my favorite moments - and Danny is going to kill me for saying this - is at one point he is supposed to fly in and we had one show where for some reason he could not fly.
It doesn't really make much sense, but we had this one celebratory bit we would do when something happened: We would start doing yoga poses like tree pose or downward dog or trying to do crow and failing. We might only have seven minutes left, but we could make them the best seven minutes ever." I look into the eyes of the people right around me, and I can feel that that line hits home every night as we near the end of that particular show, and we realize that we're nearing the end of this run that has meant so much to us.Ģ) What is the best inside joke from among the company? I'm always touched by the moment when I say, "It doesn't have to be like this. Ethan Slater plays the title character in SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway.ġ) What is your favorite line that you get to say?