About the Musical The Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon – a musical created by the equal opportunity jokesters behind South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone – took Broadway by storm its first year out. When it came time for the Tony awards, the show gobbled up 14 nominations, just one shy of the 15-count record set by The Producers in 2001 and tied by Billy Elliot in 2009. The Book of Mormon went on to win nine prizes including Best Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Book of a Musical.
To create The Book of Mormon as a musical, Parker and Stone partnered with Robert Lopez, the force behind 2004's Best Musical, Avenue Q. After seven years of development, what resulted was a profanity-laced, blasphemous poke in the ribs that take shots at organized religion and musical theater with equal fervor.
Despite the off-color humor, audiences and critics alike have nothing but praise for the production since its opening in March of 2011. Crowds pack in at 102 percent capacity to see what all the fuss is about. The original cast recording hit the streets in May of 2011, becoming the highest-charting Broadway album since 1969.
The story tracks two Mormon missionaries who head out from the comfy environs of Salt Lake City to a village in Uganda with naïve hopes and plans to convert the villagers into followers of the Joseph Smith-founded religion. Turns out, only half of the team has actually filed through the pages of the good Book and the villagers are more concerned about poverty, famine, and AIDS, as a brutal warlord reigns over them.
The New York Times raved: “This is to all the doubters and deniers out there, the ones who say that heaven on Broadway does not exist, that it’s only some myth our ancestors dreamed up. I am here to report that a newborn, old-fashioned, pleasure-giving musical has arrived at the Eugene O’Neill Theater, the kind our grandparents told us left them walking on air if not on water. So hie thee hence, nonbelievers (and believers too), to The Book of Mormon, and feast upon its sweetness.”
A touring production of The Book of Mormon is on the calendar for December of 2012, kicking off in Denver. London's West End also has eyes on a 2012 production.
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