THE MORMONS ARE (FINALLY) COMING …
to the Theatre Royal Nottingham from Wednesday 17 August to Saturday 10 September
The Book of Mormon is the smash-hit musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez that has been seen by 17 million people so far around the world.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the creators of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning television show, South Park, now in its twenty-fifth season, and the feature films South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Team America: World Police.
Robert Lopez co-created the Broadway musical Avenue Q and co-wrote the songs for Disney’s Frozen and Coco. He is the first person ever to have become a double ‘EGOT’, winning at least two of each of the four major entertainment awards – Emmy®, Grammy®, Oscar® and Tony® Awards.
The Book of Mormon is co-directed and choreographed by the Tony®, Olivier®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Award-winning Casey Nicholaw. His many other Broadway and West End credits include Disney’s Aladdin, Dreamgirls, Mean Girls, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Something Rotten!, Elf: The Musical, The Prom and The Drowsy Chaperone.
The Book of Mormon follows a pair of Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that’s a long way from their home in Salt Lake City.
Since making its world premiere in March 2011 at New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre, where it won nine Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, The Book of Mormon has been performed on three continents and won over thirty international awards. The musical has smashed long-standing box office records in New York, London, Melbourne, Sydney and in cities across the U.S.
The London production opened in February 2013, winning four Olivier Awards® including Best New Musical, and breaking the record for the highest single day of sales in West End history. It sold out every one of its performances before closing alongside all theatreland in March 2020. The first ever UK and European tour launched in Manchester in June 2019, winning ‘Best Theatre Show’ at the Manchester Evening News City Life Awards before touring throughout the UK and Europe.
Book, Music and Lyrics are by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Directed by Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon has choreography by Casey Nicholaw, set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt, sound design by Brian Ronan, orchestrations by Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus and music supervision and vocal arrangements by Stephen Oremus.
The Book of Mormon is produced by Anne Garefino, Important Musicals and Sonia Friedman Productions.
More information on tour dates and tickets for the Tony®, Olivier® and Grammy® award-winning show can be found at www.thebookofmormonmusical.com.
LISTINGS INFORMATION
The Book of Mormon
Wednesday 17 August – Saturday 10 September 2022
Theatre Royal Nottingham
Eves 7.30pm, Fri & Sat matinee 2.30pm
£18.50 – £75 www.trch.co.uk Box Office 0115 989 5555
SOCIAL MEDIA
UK & European Tour
Twitter: @bookofmormonuk
Instagram: @bookofmormoneu
Facebook: /bookofmormonEU
Website: thebookofmormonmusical.com/
MEDIA QUOTES
★★★★★
“AN UNSTOPPABLE CULTURAL JUGGERNAUT”
“A fiendishly well-crafted, hilariously smart – or maybe smartly hilarious – extravaganza. Each time you think they can’t possibly top a particularly crazed moment, ten more follow.”
“By the time The Book of Mormon ends in an orgy of over-the-top-cheer, you just can’t wait to get on that ride all over again.”
“I ♥ The Book of Mormon”
– New York Post
★★★★★
“Blissfully original, irreverent, outspoken and hilarious. It’s a show where you catch yourself laughing one minute, mouth agape the next, eventually wiping away tears, and finally, cheering. Being among the converted is what it’s all about.”
“OH BOY IT’S A REAL WINNER”
– New York Daily News
“It’s incredible. The Book of Mormon is so good it makes me angry. If aliens come thousands of years from now, and this is the record from our time on earth, I will be absolutely satisfied with that.”
“Mormon is a crowning achievement”
“SOMEONE ARREST TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE FOR STEALING OUR HEARTS”
– Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
“The Book of Mormon grabs the audience by the lapels and doesn’t let go. This show may offend thousands – if not more – with its roll-in-the-aisles lunacy. This is a blessed relief from the revival rut, and bless Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s iconoclastic hearts for it!”
“THE BOOK OF MORMON IS HILARIOUS, UPROARIOUS, OUTRAGEOUS, SPIKY, AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINING”
– The Huffington Post
“Matt and Trey: Where have you been all my life? You’ve discovered your true calling as the wit-spewing class clowns of musical theatre. A pricelessly entertaining act of musical-comedy subversion. This extraordinarily well-written show is ONE OF THE MOST JOYOUSLY ACIDIC BUNDLES BROADWAY HAS UNWRAPPED IN YEARS.”
- The Washington Post
“THE FUNNIEST MUSICAL OF ALL TIME.”
“The Book of Mormon is an exhilarating musical, at once revolutionary and classic, hilarious and humane, funny and obscene, uncompromising in its writing and unafraid of just about anything. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have crafted a phenomenally blasphemous, rather perfect show. This is what the 21st-century musical can be. I believe in The Book of Mormon.”
– Entertainment Weekly
“The Book of Mormon is an extravaganza of jaw-dropping obscenity, hair-raising blasphemy, and irresistible good cheer. It hits such heights of offensive hilarity that it leaves audience members literally gasping for breath.”
“THE FUNNIEST MUSICAL OF ALL TIME”
– Vogue
★★★★★
“The geniuses of South Park make history.”
“The Book of Mormon is as good as it gets. It’s on its march into legend. Laughs come hard, long, hard, and uncut. This is the new gold standard for musicals. It should keep audiences in shock and awe for years.”
“COME ON MORMONS, GO INTO YOUR DANCE.”
– Rolling Stone
“The Book of Mormon is a confetti burst of profanity, blasphemy, and hilarity that sends up and makes love to the musical and, in the process, rejuvenates it. It constitutes the happiest example of a civilization whose culture at the moment seems to consist largely of quoting and recycling and re-spinning. Mormon is provocative, lacerating, impious, original, witty, crude, and utterly delightful.”
“THIS IS THE MORMON MOMENT.”
CREATIVE TEAM
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the creators of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning television show, South Park, now in its twenty-fifth season, and the feature films South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Team America: World Police.
Robert Lopez co-created the Broadway musical Avenue Q and co-wrote the songs for Disney’s Frozen and Coco. He is the first person ever to have become a double ‘EGOT’, winning at least two of each of the four major entertainment awards – Emmy®, Grammy®, Oscar® and Tony® Awards.
The Book of Mormon is co-directed and choreographed by the Tony®, Olivier®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Award-winning Casey Nicholaw. His many other Broadway and West End credits include Disney’s Aladdin, Dreamgirls, Mean Girls, Monty Python’sSpamalot, Something Rotten!, Elf: The Musical, The Prom and The Drowsy Chaperone.
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TREY PARKER Co-Director, Book, Music, Lyrics
MATT STONE Book, Music, Lyrics
ROBERT LOPEZ Book, Music, Lyrics
CASEY NICHOLAW Co-Director, Choreographer
SCOTT PASK Scenic Design
ANN ROTH Costume Design
BRIAN MACDEVITT Lighting
BRIAN RONAN Sound Design
LARRY HOCHMAN Co-Orchestrator
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TREY PARKER (CO-DIRECTOR, BOOK, MUSIC, LYRICS)
Parker wrote and directed his first feature film, Cannibal! The Musical, while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder. A few years later, Trey co-created the hit animated series South Park with Matt Stone (his college friend and Cannibal! producer). Debuting on Comedy Central in 1997 and currently in its 22nd season, South Park has won five Emmy® Awards as well as the coveted Peabody Award. The same year South Park debuted, Parker wrote, directed and starred in the film Orgazmo. Two years later, Parker and Stone released the critically acclaimed feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. The musical, which Parker directed and co- wrote, earned an Oscar®nomination for Best Song and the first ever New York Film Critics Circle Award for an animated film. In 2004, the pair returned to theatres with Team America: World Police, an action movie co-written and directed by Parker that starred a cast of marionettes. It has been a long-time dream of Parker’s to write a musical for Broadway. He won four Tony®Awards for The Book of Mormon, including Best Musical, as well as the Grammy® for The Best Musical Theater Album. Trey Parker is originally from Conifer, Colorado.
MATT STONE (BOOK, MUSIC AND LYRICS)
Stone met Trey Parker at the University of Colorado, and together they made a short animated piece called The Spirit of Christmas. This launched their most recognized work, the critically acclaimed and award-winning television show, South Park. The animated series is in its 22nd season on Comedy Central and has won Stone five Emmy® Awards and the coveted Peabody Award. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which Stone produced and co-wrote, earned an Oscar® nomination and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film. In addition to South Park, Stone has partnered with Parker on the low-budget Cannibal: The Musical, the superhero comedy Orgazmo, and the marionette action thriller Team America: World Police. Stone won three Tony® Awards for The Book of Mormon, including Best Musical, as well as a Grammy® for The Best Musical Theater Album. Matt Stone is originally from Littleton, Colorado.
ROBERT LOPEZ (BOOK, MUSIC, LYRICS)
Lopez is the co-creator of the smash hit, Tony® Award winning Broadway musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon. Along with his wife and collaborator Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he wrote the songs for Disney’s Frozen, earning an Oscar® and a Grammy® for the movie’s signature song “Let It Go,” and a Grammy® for the Frozen soundtrack. The pair adapted Frozen for Broadway which opened Spring 2018. Lopez and Anderson-Lopez also co-wrote the Oscar® winning song “Remember Me” from Pixar’s Coco, original musical Up Here, the score for Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, and Finding Nemo: The Musical (playing at Walt Disney World since 2006). Lopez shared two Emmy® Award wins for his music for Nickelodeon’s The Wonder Pets and an Emmy®nomination for the musical episode of Scrubs and the song “Moving Pictures,” which opened The 87th Academy Awards. His work has also been featured on TV shows including South Park, The Simpsons and Phineas and Ferb. Lopez is one of only fifteen artists to win all four major entertainment industry awards (Emmy®, Grammy®, Oscar® and Tony® Awards). He has also won Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Lucile Lortel, Frederick Loewe and Edward Kleban awards. A graduate of Yale, Lopez now resides in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. Thanks Buzzetti, Mom, Dad, Billy, Katie, Annie and especially Kristen for all the love and support.
CASEY NICHOLAW (CO-DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER)
Represented on Broadway as director/choreographer of Mean Girls (2018 Tony® nominations for Best Direction and Choreography), Disney’s Aladdin (2014 Tony®, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Choreography) and co-director and choreographer of The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony®, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Awards for co-director and nominations in the same categories for Choreography). Has been represented in the West End as director and choreographer of The Book of Mormon (Olivier® Award winner for Best Choreography), Dreamgirls and Disney’s Aladdin. Other Broadway credits as director/choreographer: The Prom, Tuck Everlasting, Something Rotten (2015 Tony Nominee Best Director), Elf: The Musical; The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony®, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle nominations); Monty Python’s Spamalot directed by Mike Nichols (2005 Tony®, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle nominations Best Choreography). Additional New York credits: for City Center Encores! – the highly acclaimed productions of Most Happy Fella, Anyone Can Whistle and Follies (direction/choreography).
CAST
The cast of The Book of Mormon on tour is led by Robert Colvin as ‘Elder Price’, Conner Peirson as ‘Elder Cunningham’, Aviva Tulley as ‘Nabulungi’, Jordan Lee Davies, Ewen Cummins, Johnathan Tweedie and Thomas Vernal.
The full company on tour includes Loren Anderson, Jed Berry, David Brewis-Scott, Sanchia Amber Clarke, Tre Copeland-Williams, Tom Dickerson, Chanel Edwards-Frederick, Patrick George, Tad Hapaguti, Daniel Haswell, Evan James, Darren John, Michael Lewis, George Littell, Nicole Louise, Fergal McGoff, Ben Middleton, Sasha Monique, David Perkins, Rory Shafford, Chomba S. Taulo, Sharon Wattis and Jacob Yarlett.
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