I saw The Book of Mormon on Broadway a few months ago. If I tell people that, they’ll always be like, “Oh! What did you think?!” This is what I think.
- Definitely get someone else to buy tickets for you.
- There’s a lot of singing in musicals. Like, most of the time I’d say.
- The characters don’t all talk in South Park voices.
- Every mormon boy in the world is insanely fit except for Elder Cunningham.
- A lot of the performers have comedy-related backgrounds.
- The dudes who play mormon boys are like 57 years old, so theater is more about musical talent than accuracy.
- There are many jokes in it.
- Mormons wear weird pajamas.
- The “The Book of Mormon” props they use on stage are all filled with blank pages – it is a ruse. Here’s an idea: put the script in there. Whoa. You’re welcome, Broadway.
- There’s lots of AIDS in Uganda.
- Typically, there are two main acts in a Broadway musical.
- After Act I, I was like “This is the best thing I’ve ever seen in the entire world.”
- After Act II, I was like “That was pretty good.”
- It’s a satire of a musical that’s still totally a musical, i.e. it’s guilty of things it’s trying to satirize sometimes.
- I liked it.