# Book of Mormon Broadway Musical. Anyone see it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967 "2017-07-11T00:49:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/21 "2017-07-12T01:45:30Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > There’s nothing wrong with you. My wife and I both hated it. It was juvenile, basically middle school potty mouth humor. Ditto. My wife and I left at the interval - just didn’t think it was funny. We were not offended - neither of us is religious. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/22 "2017-07-12T01:51:00Z")
I enjoyed it and thought it was very funny. It is very very rough with its humor though so be warned. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/23 "2017-07-12T07:16:46Z")
> [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > 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!” . Yeah, actually, that’s a nice little feature: the Mormon church’s reaction to the show.They don’t get insulted and act all hissy–unlike the way so many Christian groups have protested , say, movies featuring Jesus. When I saw the show, they placed a big ad in the Playbill saying “You know how it is…the book is always better!” And in the smaller print there was something like "okay…so you watched the book of mormon and were entertained. That’s a start; So now, how about reading the Book of Mormom, and change your life? My favorite little detail in the show: the sacred “Golden Plates”–which are just dinner plates. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/24 "2017-07-12T19:56:16Z")
I saw it with one of my very Catholic friends and he was not a fan. I think he didn’t like the African’s insulting God. I thought it was hysterical and I plan on seeing it again some year with my wife (my buddy was using her ticket). It’s been over two years and I still chuckle occasionally in thinking about the show and sing snippets of the songs I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/25 "2017-07-12T20:49:44Z")
I went with my wife, who keeps up to date on these things. I’d seen the South Park episode, and thought it hilarious. I absolutely loved the show. My wife did as well - but I still don’t think she understands that it pokes fun at ALL religions. She’s a very fundamentalist Christian - and her favorite line is “because we’re Mormon, and Mormons just believe!” Yup - that’s my favorite line as well, but I think for a different reason… ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/26 "2017-07-12T23:17:45Z")
Saw it in Los Angeles with my wife and my mother. We all loved it. It was L.A., so the dress code ‘anything but naked’. ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/27 "2017-07-12T23:25:26Z")
Also add me to the “loved it” category. The only sour note for me - and it grinds me every time I listen to the soundtrack - is the repeated line “I’ve got maggots in my sc\*\*t\*m”. For a show with a fair amount of “clever” humor - word play, satire, etc - that line was just blaugh. Other than those collective 10 seconds? Hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/28 "2017-07-18T15:48:53Z")
Thank you everyone for your replies. I am excited about seeing it. And thanks for the comments on wardrobe. The suggestion about the white shirt and skinny black tie sounds like fun. Thinking about adding a black name tag. “Elder Jack Mormon, Zion Curtain, Utah”. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/29 "2017-07-18T16:05:52Z")
_Book of Mormon_ cosplay! I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/30 "2017-07-18T18:13:54Z")
I saw the touring production, and loved it (I’m quite religious by the way, but quite liberal and I can appreciate humor that pokes fun of Christians as much as anyone). I used to watch South Park years and years ago, but lost interest after a few seasons. I like all of the songs mentioned, but my favorite might be the show opener, “Hello.” But Hasa Deega Ebowai really does get stuck in your head. I saw it with my wife, and she didn’t like it as much. I don’t think she was exactly offended, but I think she felt like the show was a bit _too_ irreverent. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/31 "2017-07-18T18:32:11Z")
I saw it in SF and really enjoyed it. It balances the predictably crude stuff with some very smart, clever, and subversive humor, and the songs are a perfect balance of spoofing the genre but taking the crafts very seriously as well. While “Hello” is a remarkable opening number to set the tone for the evening, I look back most fondly at “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream” because it’s the closest to an actual South Park song in the show. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/32 "2017-07-18T18:34:49Z")
I liked it and laughed a bit, but don’t need to see it again. > [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > 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. There were similar LDS ads when the touring production came to Cleveland a year or so ago. > [@Celidin](#): > > Also add me to the “loved it” category. > > The only sour note for me - and it grinds me every time I listen to the soundtrack - is the repeated line “I’ve got maggots in my sc\*\*t\*m”. For a show with a fair amount of “clever” humor - word play, satire, etc - that line was just blaugh. Other than those collective 10 seconds? Hilarious! Is “scrotum” profanity now? In any event, it was the most memorable line of the entire show for me. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/33 "2017-07-18T19:24:03Z")
My favorite song is [Sal Tlay Ka Siti](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSIvDrHQUWY), but I think Baptise Me is pretty clever also. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967/34 "2017-07-20T17:58:51Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > 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. Maybe it was an audience full of people who recognized that the same as you did? Chicago’s a pretty heathen town. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-of-mormon-broadway-musical-anyone-see-it/790967.md?page=1)