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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 shows is arriving and performing in New York on Thursday 3rd October 2024 at the one and only Eugene O'Neill Theatre! Take part in a musical viewing that makes you fall in love with classical musicals, full of unrestrained and comedic twists.
Produced from the minds 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 subject of religion and satirizes it through both script and music.
As Ben Brantley of The NYC Times describes, 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 awe-inspiring show, before they run out!
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Welcome to one of the most spacious and top-tier show venues, Eugene O'Neill Theatre is proud to host the Book of Mormon on October at Thursday 3rd October 2024. Known for its 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.
Running 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 creative take on the Book of Mormon was a record-breaker. 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 show 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 integrates the themes of faith, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its plot features two very different Mormon missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, its central characters, as they are sent on a mission for training to convert the local population of a remote village in Uganda to Mormonism. It turns out to be a challenge however, as they discover that the village faces more pressing matters such as poverty, famine, an AIDS epidemic, and even oppression from the local General. Thinking outside the box, it is Cunningham who is able to successfully preach to the villagers with aid from the village leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and a bit of creativity. Though not as well versed on the Mormon doctrine as his fellow Mormons, he invents stories that are a blend of fact and fiction, drawing information from pop culture and fantasy works such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings that entice the villagers more to convert. The two ways 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 continues in New York. Tickets are purchasable by clicking the link above.
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