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Ohio, you’re in for the best kind of surprise as The Book of Mormon, one of Broadway’s wittiest, cleverest, and most comedic musicals is arriving and performing in Columbus on Friday 11th October 2024 at the one and only Ohio Theatre! Take part in a musical viewing that makes you laugh and love classical theatre, full of unrestrained and comedic 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 features two Mormon 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 part of the audience and get a seat to this stunning show, before they're all gone!
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Welcome to Columbus's most spacious and top-tier play venues, Ohio Theatre is showcasing the Book of Mormon on October at Friday 11th October 2024. Enjoy world-class staging, sound design, and architecture, Ohio Theatre is already loved by both locals and tourists in Columbus as its best musical venue.
The musical runs at 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Book of Mormon was a surprising yet welcome addition to Broadway theatres when it premiered over a decade ago, back in 2011 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The imaginative take on the Book of Mormon was a box office success. In just the first nine months of the show, it broke the weekly box office record 22 times!! By mid-2022, it had already grossed 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 blends the themes of religion, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its story 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 their religion. It turns out to be more difficult than expected 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. Faced with the challenge, it is Cunningham who is able to successfully preach to the locals with aid from the local leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and an unusual talent for lying. Though not as knowledgeable on the Mormon doctrine as his fellow Mormons, he invents stories that are a mix of fact and fiction, copying from science fiction 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 respectively, as they struggle try to strategize 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 Columbus. Tickets are available by clicking the link above.
Ohio Theatre - Columbus, Columbus, Ohio, , US