The Book of Mormon by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez & Matt Stone
A Sonia Freidman production
At Prince of Wales Theatre, London
“ripe language and a camp chorus line”
There has been lots of press about this show saying it is rude and disrespectful so I was looking forward to a raucous afternoon of theatre.
If you like South Park then you will definitely love Book of Mormon. Written by the same team this is a spectacular, musical tongue in cheek sending up of all organised religions, but especially Mormons.
The basic story is of a group of newly trained initiates being sent out into the wide world to convert the great unwashed to their version of religious belief. We follow two, Elders Cunnigham and Price, to Uganda. They assume it will be easy to convert the locals but the locals turn out to be far more intelligent than to simply accept what they are told.
As expected the language is ripe. In fact the only thing they missed was a C-bomb, but then we have all heard far too much about Covid lately!
There are, of course, wall to wall songs. What I didn’t expect was the outrageous choreography. At times it was so camp and homoerotic that I thought I was watching a trailer for gay Mormon porn!
I have long wanted to see this show and had originally booked to see it in 2020. Of course Covid threw a spanner in the works so I rebooked, twice. On that subject it has to be said that Delfont Mackintosh made the procedure very easy. Unlike some suppliers. It was also very reassuring that we had to show our vaccine passports before we could get in.
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