Barnegat High School’s Bengal Theatre Co. will be performing “The SpongeBob Musical” at 7 p.m. on April 7 to 9 and at 2 p.m. on April 10 in the school’s auditorium, located at 180 Bengal Blvd. in Barnegat Township.

Director Kerry Bollenbach said “The SpongeBobMusical” wasn’t the company’s first, or even second, choice for its spring musical. She had been unable to secure performance rights for those shows because a national tour will soon be performing one in the area while Beach Haven’s Surflight Theatre will be producing the other this summer.

So she picked seven shows, made sure she could get the rights to them, and let a leadership group of Bengal Theatre Co.