Spongebob will be the most Tony-nominated musical of the season

This is not something I am happy to report, and I do not have a crystal ball. But the people on these boards, including myself, need to prepare for the headlines and ads stating Spongebob as the most nominated musical of the season.

I could very much be wrong (and honestly hope I am) but this is what a lot of the forecasts (including a lot of these predictions threads) are predicting if you just look at the numbers.

I do not think Spongebob will win many awards other than in design categories. However, with a month of being able to advertise that they are the most nominated musical of the season, maybe this could help their box office. Possibly post Labor Day?

(Please excuse the Michael-Reidel-esque false certainty in the phrasing of this thread title).

I have a few shows left to see but I enjoyed the hell out of SpongeBob, wouldn't bother me in the least if it gets the most nominations. I enjoyed it more than anything else I've seen for this season so far.

Updated On: 4/30/18 at 03:04 PM

BroadwayRox3588 said: "I wonder how many people on this board who consistently bashSpongeBobhave actually seen it."

I can proudly report that I have seen Spongebob and am basing my disappointment on my opinion after actually seeing the show - not writing it off as others have.

I am glad that others have enjoyed the show - I was personally disappointed with it.

I have only seen 3 musicals of this season - Mean Girls, frozen, and Spongebob - and personally enjoyed Mean Girls the best. I understand that I am in the minority here.

Playbill_Trash said: "However, with a month of being able to advertise that they are the most nominated musical of the season, maybe this could help their box office."

Are you basing your theory on the success of Great Comet also receiving a ton of nominations and staying open through Labor Day?

Impossible2 said: "In all fairness Comet did get a big boost in sales up to the Tony's and after until Josh left."

Did it? It was pulling about $1M most weeks before nominations, and then went up to $1.1M after, but it was also Groban's last few weeks, too, so kind of hard to extrapolate that the Tony nominations played a role. And if they did, that role seemed to disappear around the same time as Groban.

Playbill_Trash said: "BroadwayRox3588 said: "I wonder how many people on this board who consistently bashSpongeBobhave actually seen it."

I can proudly report that I have seen Spongebob and am basing my disappointment on my opinion after actually seeing the show - not writing it off as others have.

I am glad that others have enjoyed the show - I was personally disappointed with it.

I have only seen 3 musicals of this season - Mean Girls, frozen, and Spongebob - and personally enjoyed Mean Girls the best. I understand that I am in the minority here."

Thats totally fair...not every show is loved by everyone. Hell i know ive been attacked for it but i didnt love the bands visit. I mean at all but god knows im in the minority on that one and i know it will win awards.

We all get to root for out fave and yell at the tv when the other one wins. .thats the fun. I find the tonys so much more fun when anything can happen and its not a foregone conclusion. A year ago the thought of hearing the award for....goes to spongebob the musical would make me cringe but now if be quite happy for the underdog.

haterobics said: "Impossible2 said: "In all fairness Comet did get a big boost in sales up to the Tony's and after until Josh left."

Did it? It was pulling about $1M most weeks before nominations, and then went up to $1.1M after, but it was also Groban's last few weeks, too, so kind of hard to extrapolate that the Tony nominations played a role. And if they did, that role seemed to disappear around the same time as Groban."

I was visiting around that time and it wasn't on Tkts for about a month and if it was it was only single tickets occasionally throughout the day. Dunno why the money didn't go up much, maybe discounts after the Noms were announced?

For the last few weeks of Josh all the prices also went up when trying to buy on Telecharge.

haterobics said: "Putting aside why those would be the three musicals you picked, Mean Girls would seem to be the strongest of thosethree. I didn't see Frozen, but I'd imagine that in the third position?"

I would honestly rank the 3 that I’ve seen as

1. Mean Girls

2. Frozen

3. Spongebob

I know that’s controversial on these boards too. I agree with a lot of the opinions on here that say frozen left a lot to be desired. But if we’re talking musicals as a whole, I enjoyed frozen a lot more than spongebob. It was just structured a lot better and made for a better musical than what they tried to put together for a plot in spongebob. I left the sponge thinking it can’t be compared to other movie adaptations like shrek or frozen because those shows have one consistent plot and throughline.

Spongebob tries to chase every mouse and tried to cram in a whole television series worth of character development into 2 hours so to me, every song stood ok on its own but did not come together to make what I would call a good musical story. I understand that the songs were written by different artists but jeez, at least make be believe there was ever a meeting to try to turn these ingredients into a meal.

I had a good time though. In my opinion, spongebob was a fun show, but not a good musical.

Mean Girls has a brand new GIGANTIC billboard on Broadway that apparently just went up in the last 24hrs...

Thank God they can't take that quote to themselves!!! Ugh!

all_that_jazz said: "Taking in all the theater awards including any the bands visit received last year the total now stands at...

38 spongebob. 29 bands visit

Soooo Spongebob is the most nominated of the season."

True. However I was referring to Tony nominations, and I am also glad that Mean Girls at least gets to share the quote with Spongebob. Glad to see the nominators are not completely delirious.

However I bet if that rule about categories with 9 or more eligible nominees automatically getting 5 nominees instead of 4 in the past did not apply this year, Spongebob would have had the same amount of nominees and Mean Girls would have gotten less.

This never would have happened while Obama was president. Just saying.