About the Show:
The Book of Mormon is a religious satire musical with book, lyrics, and music by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone. Best known for creating the animated
comedy South
Park, Parker
and Stone co-created the music with Lopez, the co-composer/co-lyricist of Avenue Q, and, subsequently, Frozen. The Book of Mormon
follows two Mormon missionaries as they attempt to share their
scriptures with the inhabitants of a remote Ugandan village. The earnest young men are challenged
by the locals' lack of interest, occupied as they are by more pressing troubles
such as AIDS, famine, and oppression from
a warlord.
Development
on the musical began in 2003, with the trio meeting sporadically to work on the
musical for several years after Parker and Stone saw Avenue Q. Parker
and Stone grew up in Colorado,
and references to The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had been commonplace in their previous
works. For research, the trio took a trip to Salt Lake City to meet with current and former Mormon
missionaries. Developmental workshops were staged beginning in 2008. The show's
producer, Scott
Rudin, opted
to open the show directly on Broadway.
The LDS Church issued a polite, measured response to the musical, and purchased
advertising space in its playbill in later runs.
After nearly seven years of
development, the
show opened on Broadway in March 2011. The Book of Mormon garnered
overwhelmingly positive critical response, and set records in ticket sales for
the Eugene
O'Neill Theatre.
The show was awarded nine Tony Awards,
one of which was for Best Musical,
and a Grammy
Award for Best Musical Theater Album. The original Broadway cast
recording became the highest-charting Broadway cast album in over four decades,
reaching number three on the Billboard
charts. The
musical premiered in the West End
in 2013, and has staged two national tours.
More info on the show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mormon_(musical)
My
opinion:
I’ve
wanted to see The Book of Mormon for a while and now I finally have!!!
I was so
excited to see this show! It starts with being outside the Prine of Wales
theatre, it looks so pretty. We had seats in the forth row, that was perfect
and we were really able to see the expressions on the actors faces. That was
actually really important to me, but I will explain later on.
The
starts of this show with the song „Hello“ is awesome!!! The mormon elders knock
on doors, say hello and actually want to convince people to join them. First it’s
only Elder Price singing, but more and more oft hem joining and it’s so much
fun to watch them. Their expressions are on point and they are all very
different, which is so much fun.
Elder
Price then goes on a mission in Uganda with Elder Cunningham and he is rather
special. Their adventure starts and together with the other elders they try to
convince the population to become Mormons. However, that is not so easy. Following
this are some very funny scenes, exciting songs, but also a gripping story. It
was amazing to see the mixture between rock/pop songs and the African
influence.
KJ
Hippensteel as Elder Price was brilliant! He has an amazing voice, great mimics
and his acting was on point. David O’Reilly was fabulous and I think he fit the
role perfectly. He was hilarous!! Alexandra Ncube made a wonderful Nabulungi,
or shall we call her „Netflix“?! ;) I really liked the other elders as well,
the formed a fab group and all of them had amazing stage presence. Their songs
were so much fun and great to watch. The whole cast builds a brilliant picture
and the Ugandian „people“ on stage brought a lot of happiness and colours into
it.
This show
is AWESOME on so many levels:
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Brilliant and clever story, with lots of hilarious elements in it
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Awesome, catchy songs
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Amazing cast
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Actors and actresses with a great stage presence and amazing
acting/expressions
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Great dancing
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A mixture of all kinds of musical styles
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and more…
I would
definitely go see this show again, I LOVED every second of it!
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