Why Is Ethan Slater Being Compared to a ‘Jim Henderson Animatronic Creation’ After Hyping ‘Wicked?’
We turn now to Ethan Slater, who has kissed Ariana Grande, and we all need to learn to sit peacefully with that. Slater became the face of a new generation of musical entertainment when he landed the lead role in the deeply weird SpongeBob SquarePants musical in 2016, a production widely remembered as the thing that theater kids at the time might have talked about if they could have just stopped reciting Hamilton for ten minutes. Since then, he’s been making bigger and bigger waves, appearing in the Broadway production…