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Eugene O'Neill Theatre
New York, you’re in for the finest kind of surprise as The Book of Mormon, one of Broadway’s wittiest, cleverest, and most humorous musicals is arriving and performing in New York on Tuesday 24th September 2024 at the one and only Eugene O'Neill Theatre! Take part in a musical showing that makes you laugh and love classical theatre, full of hysterical and amusing twists.
Produced from the minds of the creators of the famous comedy TV show South Park and the play Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon tells the story of 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 productions, the musical takes the serious subject of religion and satirizes it through both script 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 one of the lucky ones and get a seat to this excellent show, before they run out!
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Known as one of the most spacious and top-tier show venues, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is proud to host the Book of Mormon on September at Tuesday 24th September 2024. Enjoy world-class staging, facilties, and spacious seating, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is already praised by both locals and tourists in New York as its top 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 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 grossed more than $1 Billion Dollars around the world. Showing throughout the past decade, the show accumulated awards all over the world as well, ranging from Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, Olivier Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Helpmann awards among other citations!
The Book of Mormon mixes the themes of religion, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its narrative features two very different Latter-day saints (LDS) missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, its main characters, as they perform their two-year mission to convert the native villagers of a small African village in Uganda to Mormonism. It turns out to be a challenge however, as they find out that the village faces more practical issues such as poverty, famine, an HIV epidemic, and even oppression from the local General. Though not initially successful, it is Cunningham who is able to successfully preach to the villagers with assistance 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 invents stories that are a combination of fact and fiction, drawing information from science fiction and fantasy works such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings that convince 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 available by clicking the link above.
Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York, New York, , US
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