The Book Of Mormon at Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Welcome to New York's most spacious and world-class musical theatres, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is showcasing the Book of Mormon on October at Friday 11th October 2024. Known for its world-class staging, sound design, and architecture, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is already loved by both locals and foreigners in New York as its top musical venue.

Running at 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Book of Mormon was a new and fresh addition to Broadway theatres when it started over a decade ago, back in 2011 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The imaginative take on the Book of Mormon was a box office success. Within just 9 months of its debut it broke the weekly box office record 22 times. By mid-2022, it had already earned more than $1 Billion Dollars worldwide. Over the past decade, the musical accumulated awards worldwide as well, ranging from Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, Olivier Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Helpmann awards among many other acclaims.

The Book of Mormon mixes the key ideas of religion, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its plot features two very different Latter-day saints (LDS) missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, its leading characters, as they are sent on a mission for training to convert the native villagers of a small African village in Uganda to their religion. It turns out 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 the local General. Thinking outside the box, it is Cunningham who is able to successfully preach to the villagers with help from the local leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and an unusual talent for lying. Though not as knowledgeable on the Mormon doctrine as his companions, he creates relatable stories that are a mix of fact and fiction, blatantly taking stories from pop culture and fantasy works such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings that entice the villagers more to convert. The two techniques of Price and Cunningham clash, orthodox and unorthodox. Comedy ensues 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 for sale by clicking the link above.