I loved the soundtrack. And have tickets to see it in August in Salt Lake City.
Did you like it?
Also, what to wear? It is my first broadway musical. Living in the tropics means my closet is shorts and sandals. So, I will need to buy used or rent something.
Thanks for replies.
Broadway is a long street, but I’m pretty sure it does not extend all the way to Utah.
I saw it in New York and thought it was fantastic. Definitely the best musical I saw that year.
I saw a touring company. Great show! The “Turn It Off” number is pure magic; you have to see it on stage to get the full impact.
I don’t think there’s a dress code. As long as you’re neatly dressed, you’ll be fine.
Add me to the crowd. It’s a fun musical, curious that you’ll get to see it in the Mormon heartland…! People nowadays wear all kinds of clothes to see a show, you’ll see everything from jeans and tees to ball-gowns. Usually the gowns are just worn by little girls though 
I shouldn’t think you’d need to rent a fancy outfit.
I saw it on Broadway and loved it. I did accidentally buy my most expensive cocktail though ($40 rum and coke). People were in everything from jeans and polos to formal. YMMV there, but if you dress like you’re going to a decent steak house you’ll be fine.
Saw it in Chicago some time ago. Very funny.
I thought it odd, tho, all the people laughing uproariously, as tho they didn’t understand the show was poking fun at ALL religions, not just Morons. A lot of the humor is pretty brutal towards organized belief.
I saw it with my wife. She loved it. I should have. I like South Park type humor. The play also hit on all the points where I disagree with LDS doctrine, at least the ones that can be made jokes of. The skill of the performances was world class. The plot moved well. The play had a lot of African-American actors, a good thing IMO.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but I started hating the play the moment it started. I am a member of a minority religion, and something about outsiders poking fun at a minority religion rubbed me the wrong way from the get-go. I seethed for 3/4 of the play. I was probably the only person in the building not having a good time. I was afraid that I’d had a mental block where I could no longer enjoy comic theater. The show did come together for me at the end. I was laughing at the final jokes as hard as anyone. I would have left at intermission, or before, if the Mrs. wasn’t with me and so obviously enjoying herself. I would have missed the ending if I had. I don’t know what was wrong with me, but I did not care for it overall.
A more legitimate criticism I read of the play is that while it’s very specific and accurate about the LDS parts, the African setting is extremely generic, even though those scenes are set in a specific part of a specific country. Ghana? Nigeria? I don’t remember, and it doesn’t matter because the play was no more tied to a real place than any Disney movie set in “Europia”.
You’ll probably love it. The performances were top-notch, and worth seeing live. I guess I’m just a weirdo, in a way that was unexpected and disappointed me about myself.
We were traveling light, and dressed informally. I had chinos and a light weight collared shirt, but we’d been walking all over Manhattan that day so we weren’t exactly formal. Nobody said anything. I didn’t feel out of place because of my clothes. It’s 2017 after all.
Uganda! Like Lion King!
I loved BoM. I’ve seen it a couple times and have the soundtrack practically memorized. And I’m not going to fault them for being generic about Africa–it’s a musical. I don’t expect geographical accuracy from a musical.
The thing that surprised me was how sweet the whole thing is, given some seriously off-color songs (“Hasa Diga Eebowai” is catchy as hell and stuck in my head for days.) It’s respectful to the missionaries, respectful to the Ugandans, and overall doesn’t end up making fun of anybody except maybe really hidebound religious types (which most of the missionaries aren’t). It has a very positive message.
I saw it on Broadway with my brother a few years ago. (I sat in the orchestra for the first time in many years.) It was hilarious, and I have rarely seen an audience laugh so outrageously.
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The thing that surprised me was how sweet the whole thing is, given some seriously off-color songs (“Hasa Diga Eebowai” is catchy as hell and stuck in my head for days.) It’s respectful to the missionaries, respectful to the Ugandans, and overall doesn’t end up making fun of anybody except maybe really hidebound religious types (which most of the missionaries aren’t). It has a very positive message.
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Parker and Stone while very critical of Mormonism (and other religions) can be very sympathetic to Mormons as people. In their South Park episode on Mormonism they shredded the beliefs of the religion but ended by saying how nice Mormons themselves were.
Don’t worry about what you wear. People don’t dress up for musicals even on Broadway. You’ll be dressed up if you wear long pants and a shirt with a collar.
I adore Book of Mormon. It is my favorite musical of all time. I saw a touring company a couple of years ago, and will see it again next winter. I love all of it.
Wear whatever you want to wear. It’s not church.
Maybe not a church…but it is in Salt Lake City.
It just occurred to me that it would be funny to go to the theater wearing black pants, a white shirt, and a skinny black tie. 
You joke but outside of most, all?, of the touring productions are usually a couple of actual Mormon missionaries. They get the joke, but are not going to miss an opportunity to spread the message.
I think the generic African setting is intentional, that is how Americans see it. You know, the country of Africa.
Anyways, you will see people in jeans and shorts, and people dressed in the very nicely. A Tuesday night show or Sunday matinee might be more casual and Friday and Saturday night more formal. But nobody is going to bat an eye one way or another. It is actually fun people watching.
There’s nothing wrong with you. My wife and I both hated it. It was juvenile, basically middle school potty mouth humor. Most of the people around seemed to be uncomfortable with it, but afraid to say anything lest someone accuse them of just being “prooo-oooods”.
I liked it, but it didn’t quite live up to the hype. People were *so *enthusiastic about it, I think I was expecting more. All in all, though, a good and funny play.
There was one woman sitting behind me, however, that clearly did not enjoy it. She must have been a prude. 
Have you enjoyed any other Parker/Stone work?
Whe I saw it in Philly, there was a full-page ad in the Playbill by an LDS group with the headline, “You’ve seen the musical, now read the book!” along with instructions on how to get your very own Book of Mormon.
Saw it on Broadway and loved it. Oddly, Hasa Diga Eebowai was the last song I listened to before I walked into work this morning and I was thinking how a lot of my co-workers would not be down with it at all.
Same here. Clever and fun, but the South Park episode did the same thing in a tidy 22 minutes, and cost a whole hell of a lot less.
The woman sitting next to us was a prostitute and hooking up with Johns on her cell phone and left a short time in.
Gotta love The Theater!
Normally I love juvenile middle school potty mouth humor. That’s what’s so weird about my reaction. I also thought the plot was going to end like Hamlet, but bloodier, due to the one realistic element in the play. Glad to have been wrong on that one. (And yes, I’m being indirect.)
I’m the wife who loved it. Yes, it was juvenile and pretty offensive all around, but it didn’t take itself too seriously. I did actually like the repeated line referring to taking things on faith “Maybe that’s what God was going for??!!”.
I’m certainly glad we didn’t see it back when the only way to get tickets was to go through scalpers. We actually walked by the theater that afternoon and bought them (just about the last 2 they had).