Latest from Mormon Land: On Tuesday, 'The Book of Mormon' staged its 4,000th Broadway performance. The show — which underwent a rewrite last year to make it more racially sensitive — reportedly has grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.
First national tour cast in "The Book of Mormon" musical. The show won the Tony for best musical 11 years ago this week and recently staged its 4,000th Broadway performance.The Mormon Land newsletter is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Support us on
and get exclusive access to Tribune subscriber-only religion content, extended newsletters, podcast transcripts and more.During its run, the show has been amusing and antagonizing, pleasing and profaning, inspiring and insulting crowds across the globe.The New York Times interviewed three cast members who have been in and around the musical from the first time Elder Price joyously sang about getting his own planet as his nerdy companion, Elder Cunningham, lovingly lied his way to convert after convert in the jungles of Uganda.
Asked if he was offended by some of the writing, John Eric Parker, who portrays an African in the show, conceded that audiences may recoil at the sometimes dirty dialogue and lewd lyrics — saying some theatergoers may say, “Whoa, that’s a little bit too much for me.”“I consider myself a person of faith, coming from a family of ministers and devotion leaders and churchy people,” Parker told.
Apostle Quentin L. Cook, a fellow lawyer, presented Abrams with the Thomas L. Kane Award from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law Society for his efforts to improve ties between the Jewish community and Latter-day Saints.
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