SpongeBob makes splash with audiences

Directors, actors, parents reflect on experience staging SpongeBob Musical 

Jacob Inman, as Patrick Star, and Eva Yllescas (center right), pose together after singing “BFF.” Holding the “BFF” signs are from left: Piper Oswald, Hannah Janda and Makenna Oswald.
Jacob Inman, as Patrick Star, and Eva Yllescas (center right), pose together after singing “BFF.” Holding the “BFF” signs are from left: Piper Oswald, Hannah Janda and Makenna Oswald.

The Aurora High School musical cast and crew gave it their all with their production of SpongeBob the Musical last week. Having gone through the ups and downs of missing rehearsal time, cast members such as Jacob Inman, who plays Patrick Star, were thrilled to finally perform in front of a live audience. “Thursday as the first performance, we kind of go in with that positive nervousness of really …