Tickets to THE BOOK OF MORMON Go on Sale in Melbourne Next Week

The wait is over. Tickets for THE BOOK OF MORMON at Melbourne's Princess Theatre go on sale to the general public on Monday 8 February.

The Tony, Olivier, and Grammy award-winning musical written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-creator and songwriter for Frozen, Robert Lopez, will play from 18 January 2017.

THE BOOK OF MORMON won nine Tony Awards including Best Musical and the Grammy for Best Musical Theatre album.

Since making its world premiere in March 2011 at New York's Eugene O'Neill Theater, it has played 253 consecutive weeks at more than 100% capacity on Broadway, 170 weeks at more than 100% capacity at theatres around the US, and sold out every single one of its 1225 performances thus far in London's West End.

The London production opened in February 2013, winning four Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical. THE BOOK OF MORMON smashed box office records for the highest single day of sales in West End history. It has broken the house record at the Eugene O'Neill Theater more than 50 times and set 90 house records at 47 theatres around the US.

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.

Tickets are available from BookOfMormonMusical.com.au.

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 16th Season, South Park has won four 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, and Uncut. The musical, which Parker directed and co-wrote earned an Oscar nomination for best song and a NY Film Critics Award. 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. 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 recognised work, the critically acclaimed and award-winning television show, South Park. The animated series is in its 16th season on Comedy Central and has won Stone four Emmy Awards and the coveted Peabody Award. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, which Stone produced and co-wrote, earned an Oscar nomination and the first NY Film Critics Award for an 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. Matt Stone is originally from Littleton, Colorado.

ROBERT LOPEZ (BOOK, MUSIC, LYRICS) Robert is the Tony, Grammy, and Emmy winning co-creator of the smash hit musicals Avenue Q and THE BOOK OF MORMON. With wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez he wrote songs for Disney animated feature Frozen, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, winning an Oscar for Best Original Song and a Grammy for "Let it Go". Together with his wife he co-wrote songs for Winnie the Pooh (Walt Disney Animation Studios, 2011) and Finding Nemo: The Musical (playing at Walt Disney World since 2006) and is working on a forthcoming original stage musical called Up Here. He shared two Emmy Awards for his music for The Wonder Pets and an Emmy nomination for the Scrubs musical episode. His work has been seen on South Park, The Simpsons, and Phineas and Ferb.

CASEY NICHOLAW (CO-DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER) Nicholaw won the 2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for co-directing THE BOOK OF MORMON, and the 2014 Olivier, Award for Best Theatre Choreographer. Also currently represented on Broadway as director/choreographer of Disney's Aladdin (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations, Best Choreography) and director / choreographer of Something Rotten! which opened in April 2015 (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations). Broadway: Elf: The Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone(Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Monty Python's Spamalot (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations, Best Choreography). New York: Anyone Can Whistle, Follies (direction, choreography), Bye Bye Birdie (choreography), Can-Can (musical staging) for Encores!; Candide (NY Philharmonic); South Pacific (Carnegie Hall, PBS "Great Performances"); Sinatra: His Voice, His World, His Way (Radio City). He directed and choreographed the world premieres of Minsky's (Center Theatre Group) and Robin and the 7 Hoods (Old Globe). For TV: a 2013 episode of NBC's Smash. He directed and choreographed the musical adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's best-selling novel Tuck Everlasting, which begins performances on Broadway in March 2016.

THE BOOK OF MORMON

Melbourne's Princess Theatre

163 Spring Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

Performances from: 18 January 2017

Opening Night: 4 February 2017

BookOfMormonMusical.com.au

Contains explicit language.

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus