The Book Of Mormon at Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Welcome to New York's most spacious and top-tier musical theatres, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is proud to host the Book of Mormon on September at Friday 20th September 2024. Known for its world-class staging, sound design, and architecture, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is already praised by both locals and tourists in New York as its premier musical venue.

The musical runs at 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Book of Mormon was a new and fresh addition to Broadway theatres when it premiered over 10 years ago, back in 2011 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The creative take on the Book of Mormon was a record-breaker. Within just 9 months of its debut it broke the weekly box office record 22 times!! By mid-2022, it had already grossed more than $1 Billion Dollars around the world. Showing throughout the past decade, the Book of Mormon accumulated awards as well, ranging from Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, Olivier Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Helpmann awards among other citations!

The Book of Mormon blends the key ideas of religion, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its plot features two very different Mormon missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, its central characters, as they are sent on a mission for training to convert the native villagers of a remote village in Uganda to their religion. This proves to be a challenge however, as they learn that the village faces more urgent affairs such as poverty, famine, an AIDS epidemic, and even oppression from a local warlord. Faced with the challenge, it is Cunningham who is able to successfully preach to the villagers with help from the village leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and an unusual talent for lying. Though not as well versed on the Mormon doctrine as his fellow Mormons, he creates relatable stories that are a blend of fact and fiction, copying from science fiction and fantasy works such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings that convince the villagers more to convert. The two methods of Price and Cunningham clash, orthodox and unorthodox respectively, as they both try to figure out the best way to achieve the mission they set out for in the first place.

The Book of Mormon’s decade-long run is now available in New York. Tickets are available by clicking the link above.