The Book Of Mormon at Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Welcome to one of the most spacious and top-tier show venues, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is showcasing the Book of Mormon on September at Thursday 19th September 2024. Known for its world-class staging, sound design, and architecture, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is already applauded by both locals and tourists in New York as its leading musical venue.

The musical runs at 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Book of Mormon was a surprising yet welcome addition to Broadway theatres when it premiered 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 around the world. Over the past decade, the musical amassed 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 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 tasked to preach their faith to convert the local population of a small African 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 HIV/AIDS epidemic, and even oppression from the local General. Thinking outside the box, it is Cunningham who is able to get through to the locals with help from the village leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and an original approach . Though not as well versed on the Mormon doctrine as his fellow Mormons, he invents 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. 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 in New York. Tickets are purchasable by clicking the link provided above.