By: Rachel Hawkins, NDG Staff Writer
“The Book of Mormon”, brought back to Dallas by popular demand opened on Jan.29 and ran until Feb. 3, at the Music Hall at Fair Park, in Dallas. The nine-time Tony Award-winning musical holds extreme explicit language, and theme, and is not suggested to the easily offended.
The musical comedy itself follows the two mismatched Mormon missionaries newbies, and their adventures as they travel across the world to try to convert a tribe in Uganda. This musical is from the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
The two main leads, Elder Kevin Price played by Liam Tobin, and Elder Cunningham, played by Conner Peirson are sent to Uganda for their first mission. Seeing how the village is suffering from disease, famine and a ruthless dictator named General Butt-F*cking Naked, they decided to work together to baptize all of the villagers, and teach them about the Mormon ways in order to according to them, better their lives.
To their dismay, things don’t actually turn out in their favor. Instead, their trip is filled with weird nightmare hell-related dreams, hilarious misinterpretations, and realizations about what it truly means to help people.
The musical was written in collaboration with Robert Lopez, the Tony Award-winning writer of Avenue Q and Frozen, and co-directed by Mr. Parker and three-time Tony nominee Casey Nicholaw. The musical features 19 original songs.
As for the musical itself, it had fantastic lighting and orchestration. While the songs may not be liked by all, they still had pretty good singing. The set design itself will keep you guessing what is going to happen next. While it does have an Africa feel to it, the sets continue to randomly change, surprising you each time.
