The Book Of Mormon at Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Known as New York's most spacious and world-class play venues, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is showcasing the Book of Mormon on August at Saturday 3rd August 2024. Known for its world-class staging, facilties, and spacious seating, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is already applauded by both locals and tourists in New York as its best musical venue.

Running at 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Book of Mormon was a surprising yet welcome addition to Broadway theatres when it debuted over a decade ago, back in 2011 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The inventive take on the Book of Mormon was a record-breaker. In just the first nine months of the show, it broke the weekly box office record 22 times. By mid-2022, it had already taken home more than $1 Billion Dollars around the world. Over the past decade, the musical 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 integrates the key ideas of faith, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its story features two very different Mormon missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, its main characters, as they are tasked to preach their faith to convert the native villagers of a remote village in Uganda to their religion. It turns out to be a painstaking mission however, as they discover that the village faces more pressing matters such as poverty, famine, an HIV epidemic, and even oppression from a local warlord. Faced with the challenge, it is Cunningham who is able to get through to the locals with aid from the local leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and an unusual talent for lying. Though not as knowledgeable on the Mormon doctrine as his fellow Mormons, he invents stories that are a combination of fact and fiction, blatantly taking stories from pop culture and fantasy works such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings that lead on the villagers more to convert. The two techniques 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 goes on tour in New York. Tickets are for sale by clicking the link above.