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Perhaps, like me, you never watched the animated adventures of a sea sponge who looks like a kitchen sponge, wears a red tie and brown pants, and lives in a pineapple under the sea. If so, you probably have not been anticipating the $20 million Broadway musical named after the Nickelodeon cartoon series—“SpongeBob SquarePants”—which opened on Monday. You also may not know that its eponymous character also has a pet snail that meows; a sea-star friend who watches television; a cranky octopus neighbor who plays the…