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Eugene O'Neill Theatre
New York, you’re in for the best kind of surprise as The Book of Mormon, one of Broadway’s wittiest, cleverest, and most comedic plays is arriving and performing in New York on Thursday 10th October 2024 at the one and only Eugene O'Neill Theatre! Take part in a musical performance that makes you fall in love with classical musicals, full of hysterical and amusing twists.
Produced from the minds of the creators of the famous comedy TV series South Park and the musical Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon features two Latter-day Saints (LDS) missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, as they try to convert local villagers in Uganda. In similar fashion to their previous creations, the musical takes the serious subject of religion and satirizes it through both writing and music.
As Ben Brantley of The NYC Times states, just like South Park, it is “also blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet on a blue streak. But trust me when I tell you that its heart is as pure as that of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show”.
Make the most out of your chance to be part of the audience and get a seat to this unforgettable show, before they run out!
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Known as one of the most spacious and world-class musical theatres, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is proud to host the Book of Mormon on October at Thursday 10th October 2024. Known for its world-class staging, interior design, and acoustics, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is already praised by both locals and tourists in New York as its ultimate musical venue.
Running at 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Book of Mormon was a new and fresh addition to Broadway theatres when it debuted over a decade ago, back in 2011 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The creative take on the Book of Mormon was a box office success. In just the first nine months of the show, it broke the weekly box office record 22 times. By mid-2022, it had already earned more than $1 Billion Dollars around the world. 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 themes of faith, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its narrative features two very different Mormon 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 remote village in Uganda to Mormonism. This proves to be a challenge however, as they find out that the village faces more practical issues such as poverty, famine, an HIV/AIDS epidemic, and even oppression from the local General. Faced with the challenge, it is Cunningham who is able to get through to the villagers with help from the local leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and an original approach . Though not as well versed on the Mormon doctrine as his fellow Mormons, he creates relatable stories that are a mix of fact and fiction, copying 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 methods of Price and Cunningham clash, orthodox and unorthodox. Comedy ensues as they both try to strategize the best way to achieve the mission they set out for in the first place.
The Book of Mormon’s decade-long run in New York. Tickets are available by clicking the link provided above.
Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York, New York, , US
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