BOOK OF MORMON's Robert Lopez on the Show That 'Lifts You to Heaven!'

The cast and creative team of Broadway's THE BOOK OF MORMON chatted with Broadway Beat at the opening night after party last week. There, they caught up with one of the show's creators, Robert Lopez, who acts as the co-composer/lyricist/book writer.

On what to expect from the hilarious new musical, Lopez commented: "I think that it's a show about faith. It's about a guy that looses his faith (his naive, childish faith), and through the story regains it in a stronger, more mature way. In the end he's really lifted up into heaven, and that's the audience experience that we're trying for too."

As for the show's co-director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw, he added, "When Casey came into the mix, the energy for the show just jumped - that's the only way to put it. His dancing is just so infectiously energetic and funny." He continued, "Without Casey the show would have still been funny but it would have been more plotty and talky and now its like a party."

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THE BOOK OF MORMON features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of Comedy Central's landmark animated series, "South Park." Tony Award-winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy, Avenue Q. The world premiere musical is choreographed by three-time Tony Award-nominee Casey Nicholaw Monty Python's Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone and directed by Nicholaw and Parker.

THE BOOK OF MORMON, which follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get, features Josh Gad as Elder Cunningham, Andrew Rannells as Elder Price, Nikki M. James as Nabalungi, Rory O'Malley as Elder McKinley and Michael Potts as Mafala Hatimbi, with Lewis Cleale, Scott Barnhardt,Justin Bohon,Darlesia Cearcy, Kevin Duda, Asmeret Ghebremichael, Brian Tyree Henry, Clark Johnsen, John Eric Parker, Benjamin Schrader, MichaelJames Scott, Brian Sears, Jason Michael Snow, Lawrence Stallings, Rema Webb, Maia Nkenge Wilson and Tommar Wilson. The production will also featureGraham Bowen, Ta'Rea Campbell, Jared Gertner, Tyson Jennetteand Nick Spangler.

THE BOOK OF MORMON features set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design by Brian Ronan. Orchestrations are by Larry Hochmanand Stephen Oremus. Music direction and vocal arrangements are by Stephen Oremus.

Tickets $137.00 - $59.00 are available at Telecharge.com, by calling Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or in person at the Eugene O'Neill box office 230 West 49th Street.

For more information, visit www.bookofmormonbroadway.com.

 

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