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.
I enjoyed it and thought it was very funny. It is very very rough with its humor though so be warned.
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.
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.
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…
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’.
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!
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”.
Book of Mormon cosplay! I love it.
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.
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.
I liked it and laughed a bit, but don’t need to see it again.
There were similar LDS ads when the touring production came to Cleveland a year or so ago.
Is “scrotum” profanity now? In any event, it was the most memorable line of the entire show for me.
My favorite song is Sal Tlay Ka Siti, but I think Baptise Me is pretty clever also.
Maybe it was an audience full of people who recognized that the same as you did? Chicago’s a pretty heathen town.