Tickets now available online
(Seguin) — Are you ready kids?…I can’t hear you!
Families in Seguin are invited to grab their tickets for this weekend’s theater production of The SpongeBob Musical. Bringing the sea to the stage is the San Antonio-New Braunfels branch of Christian Youth Theater (CYT).
Four shows are scheduled throughout the weekend at Texas Lutheran University’s Jackson Auditorium.
Bobby Tschoepe, the show’s artistic director at New Braunfels says the SpongeBob Musical has all the fun energy of the TV show while also taking an intelligent dive into important messages.
“What is so funny is that a lot of people expect to come see the show, expecting either like a theme park production or the silly goofiness of the TV show and it’s absolutely a blast. It is so much fun but the show is way more intelligent than people would expect. There are some really beautiful messages about friendship, about not knowing what your place is and finding your place — the value of family and of friendship and the music in the show is just phenomenal. Each musical number is written by a different popular music artist. There are songs written by Sara Bareilles, Lady Antebellum — there is music by Panic! at the Disco; Aerosmith — that are all written specifically for SpongeBob but you get so many genres of music in the production. That makes it really special and really unique,” said Tschoepe.
Tschoepe says what makes the production even more special is the talent that will be showcased this weekend by the CYT students.
“We are an afterschool theater arts program for students ages 4 to 18. We work with families in the New Braunfels, Seguin, San Antonio, Bulverde area. Our home studio is actually in New Braunfels, but we do shows obviously in Seguin at the Jackson Auditorium. We do shows in our home studio, and we also use the Brauntex Theater in downtown New Braunfels. Our mission is to develop character and creativity through quality theater arts training that brings families and communities together while reflecting Jesus and so, our goal is to help kids shine and to show the talent that they have been given and doing that through a theatrical outlet,” said Tschoepe.
In this production, Tschoepe says the stakes will be even higher for SpongeBob, Patrick, Sandy, Squidward and all of Bikini Bottom as they face the total annihilation of their undersea world.
Chaos erupts. Lives hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, production leaders says a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage and shows how the power of optimism can really save the world!
“If you are coming expecting just to see a school production or a children’s production, man, you are going to be surprised because these young men and women are blowing it out of the water. Our level of production at CYT is really high but we also want to value the students first so the production you see is not coming at the cost of an individual acknowledging who they are. You are going to have so much fun as you come see the show. I think you are going to be truly blown away at the amount of technology we use in the show. The CYT show is a whole family experience. There’s something for parents. There’s something for students and I truly believe that by the end of the show, you will be up out of your seats cheering and singing along to the Sponge Bob theme song. It’s something you don’t want to miss,” said Tschoepe.
Tschoepe says in addition to a great show, the hope is to give families an introduction to CYT, the largest after-school theater arts training program in the nation.
“We have 58 students ages 8 to 18 in the production. They have rehearsing for the last nine weeks and putting the whole show together and it’s truly a treat. We will be back at the Jackson this summer with adults and students for our Christian Community theater production of Beauty and the Beast so we will be back in Seguin soon,” said Tschoepe.
Show times are 7 p.m. Friday; 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Show times are Friday at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
Tickets are $18 standard or $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at cytsantonio.org/shows. For groups of 10 or more or accessible seating, email md@cytsanantonio.org.
