The Book of Mormon Will Make You a Believer

Categories: Book of Mormon

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I'm quite certain that The Book of Mormon is the only current Broadway musical with the song lyric, "Fuck you, God, in your ass, mouth, and cunt -- and the eye!"

And I defy anyone to get offended. Except Mormons.

The show -- done by the South Park guys with the help of an Avenue Q writer -- manages the high-wire feat of spoofing religion, poverty, and Jesus, while throwing in AIDS jokes and songs about closeted Mormons "turning it off" -- and virtually everyone leaves happy!

The characters are douches but somehow sympathetic, and the show ends up having enough heart to temper all the smirky antics. And it's really funny.

It's like a big Disney musical -- full of ballads and relationships and yearnings to fit in -- but on piles of crystal, with wickedly satirical numbers that are so deftly executed you leave humming, "I've got maggots in my scrotum".

The show doesn't always sustain the same level of ingenuity -- Act One loses momentum after the first few showstoppers -- but by the time the Ugandan natives put on a revue in Act Two, featuring all the warped lies the Mormons have fed them (like, "Don't fuck a baby, fuck a frog"), you're at the altar of high wit. Or low wit. But definitely wit.

And I loved when one of the natives reminded everyone that the revue was only in previews!

So go. I think you'll enjoy this even more than that other spoof of Mormonism -- the Donny and Marie Christmas Show.

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Lightbearer77
Lightbearer77

The author of this article sees nothing offensive in the Book Of Mormon. Well just bully for him!!! Nothing offense, hmmm since the Ugandans are depicted as primitive savages right out of a 1940's Tarzan movie it is interesting to see how the author states there is no offense here.  And again I say no offense to the author but perhaps others might be? Could anyone dare be offended by the portrayals in this play? Well let’s see Africans constantly chopping women’s clitoris off for sport,   yea that is hilarious.  Or how about Big African men rapping babies because they are so superstitious to believe that rapping babies would cure them of aids, yea that is a real knee slapper!!!  Or did you hear the real funny one about how African medicine is so primitive and incompetent that even their doctors have maggots living in their scrotum, whooowee, now that one alone had me literally falling down in the aisles.  This isn’t satire. It is sick.  You satire that which you know, otherwise it isn’t satire.   Do the majority of white people going to see this abomination even know anything pertinent to current day Africa or Uganda? Despite the deliberate exploitation of Africa and its people by individuals just like these “enlightened” theater goers Africa still is here It is a sickness that people would laugh at others pain .  It is simple I was offended and saddened that in the year 2011 theater goers and whites in particular, could see this demeaning portrayal of Africans as anything other than as offensive.

Jonwards
Jonwards

[coincidentally, this was spotted on the net!]

Banned Utah Humor !

(1) Three levels of LDS heaven: celestial, terrestrial, cholesterol ! (2) LDS houses are painted by Ladder-Day Saints. (3) Brigham Young, when looking down on the Salt Lake Valley, said "This is the place." How come so many folks settled in that valley if he looked down on it? (4) Did Adam Swapp get his wives at a Swapp meet? (5) New Mormon cat food: 9 Wives ! (6) What's a plastic covered Indian? A laminated Lamanite. Of course I've known this since I was Nephite to a grasshopper. (7) Mormon: Someone who is more man than woman. Is "Mormon" short for "More Money"? (8) Mormonism teaches that we can know truth if there is a "burning in the bosom." Joseph Smith was the first Mormon who had a bosom below his belt ! (9) Brigham lived in the Lion House which helped him to keep on Lion. (10) Utah is the only state where you can spell "Moron" with two m's. And it's the only state where the sheep take care of the cattle !

(Glenn Beck, Jon Huntsman Jr., Warren Jeffs, Thomas Monson, and Mitt Romney did not approve of the above humor.)

Jequato
Jequato

And if you're coming to NYC as a visitor to see Book of Mormon, the icing on the cake would be choosing a Marriott for your stay!

Movielover
Movielover

Dying to see it. My good Mormon friend went and loved it! He's the loveliest boy, and the Mormon church has treated him like shit.

Musto
Musto

I know. I tried to warn y'all in a previous post that this was going to be sick and hot.

Jonster
Jonster

Oh Gawd. The gold-plated reviewers have all given it 5 stars. Now I'll never get a ticket!!!

guest
guest

I love Donny and Marie and find Donny the cutest Ken doll around.

timwayne
timwayne

So I'm reading this page at work and suddenly a fucking commercial Restasis (one of the advertisements in your sidebar) comes BLARING OUT OF MY SPEAKERS.

Thanks a lot, MUSTO, for the embarrassment. THANKS!

Get control over your advertisers.

Zippers
Zippers

No, but I do love this review and love your quote on the commercial: "God! How do I get a ticket?"

Musto
Musto

PS: Has anyone heard the rumor that Claudia Shear is helping jazz up the Catch Me If You Can script?

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