Thursday, February 22, 2024
'Book of Mormon' national tour stars preview wacky comedy's Benedum run
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “The Book of Mormon” follows Elder Kevin Price (Sam McLellan), a seemingly perfect Mormon teenager who is dismayed to learn he will be spending his two-year mission trip in Uganda with adorably awkward Elder Arnold Cunningham (Sam Nackman). The duo quickly realize that converting residents of a small Ugandan village to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints may be a borderline impossible task.
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I know that many people have mixed opinions of this show, typically they love it or they hate it. I personally have never seen it but I would really like to. I have heard the show compared to spamolot but as a more offensive version. I am very excited to see this show next week after years of hearing interesting reviews about the musical. I am only familiar with one song from the musical “I Believe” because my brother used it for an audition a few years ago. I personally found the song to be quite amusing so I am interested to see the rest of the musical. Spamolot is one of my favorite musicals so if it is funny in that way then I feel like I will enjoy it however I have heard that some of the humor in The Book Of Mormon is done a little sloppily and not as clever. But Like I said I would like to see it out of pure curiosity and then render my own opinion on it.
I previously saw Book of Mormon on Broadway a bit less than a year ago, and I really enjoyed it, but I do now definitely understand all of the hate and negative opinions it gets. It is the sort of show that made me think "was this really not written in like the late 1980s?" When I thought about it more however, I decided that the show is very self aware and it is attempting to portray and perhaps exaggerated views that are actually often held by Mormons. I don't think this is necessarily something to be admired, but I also don't think it is a bad thing. No matter what, I know few people who would call this a not entertaining show. There are many funny parts to it, and I think it is more important to see it as a standalone piece of humor than a political statement. Either way, I am very excited to see it in Pittsburgh next week, and am also very curious how the show changes at all between Broadway and touring.
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