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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 Wednesday 20th November 2024 at the one and only Eugene O'Neill Theatre! Take part in a musical viewing that makes you fall in love with classical theatre, full of unrestrained and humorous twists.
Produced from a collaboration of the creators of the famous comedy TV series South Park and the play Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon tells the story of two Mormon missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, as they try to convert local villagers in Uganda. In the same fashion to their previous productions, the musical takes the serious concept of religion and satirizes it through both writing and music.
As Ben Brantley of The New York Times shares, 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 amazing show, before they're all gone!
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Known as one of the most spacious and top-tier play venues, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is proud to host the Book of Mormon on November at Wednesday 20th November 2024. Enjoy world-class staging, sound design, and architecture, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is already loved by both locals and tourists in New York as its premier 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 debuted over a decade ago, back in 2011 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The imaginative take on the Book of Mormon was a hit smash. Within just 9 months of its debut it broke the weekly box office record 22 times. By mid-2022, it had already taken home more than $1 Billion Dollars worldwide. Over 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 many other acclaims!
The Book of Mormon blends 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 perform their two-year mission 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 find out that the village faces more pressing matters such as poverty, famine, an HIV/AIDS epidemic, and even oppression from a local warlord. Though not initially successful, it is Cunningham who is able to successfully preach to the villagers with help from the village leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and a bit of creativity. Though not as competent 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 lead on the villagers more to convert. The two techniques of Price and Cunningham clash, orthodox and unorthodox. Comedy ensues as they both try to conceive the best way to achieve the mission they set out for in the first place.
The Book of Mormon’s decade-long run continues in New York. Tickets are purchasable by clicking the link provided above.
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