THE BOOK OF MORMON Will Say Hello to Sydney

By: Sep. 02, 2017
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The Book of Mormon, Broadway's smash hit musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, is coming to Sydney.

The Tony®, Olivier®, Grammy® and Helpmann® award-winning show will begin performances at theSydney Lyric Theatre on 28 February 2018.

The ticket waitlist is now open at BookOfMormonMusical.com.au. Sign up to receive priority-booking information for your chance to see The Book of Mormon first in Sydney, before tickets go on sale onTuesday 5 September.

The Australian production of The Book of Mormon has notched up over 250 performances since opening at Melbourne's Princess Theatre on 17 January, with every performance sold out.

Winner of nine Tony Awards® including Best Musical, the Grammy® for Best Musical Theatre album and four Olivier Awards® including Best Musical, The Book of Mormon broke the house record for the highest selling on-sale period of any production in the Princess Theatre's 159-year history. At the 2017 Helpmann Awards, The Book of Mormon was crowned winner of the coveted Best Musical award, while Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw were awarded Best Direction of a Musical.

Since making its world premiere in March 2011 at New York's Eugene O'Neill Theater, The Book of Mormon has played 335 consecutive weeks at more than 100% capacity on Broadway (standing room adds additional capacity),170 weeks at more than 100% capacity at theatres around the US, and sold out every single one of its 1,888 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. Co-directed by Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw, 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 in Australia by Anne Garefino, Scott Rudin, Important Musicals and John Frost.

Waitlist for tickets now at BookOfMormonMusical.com.au

Contains explicit language.

The Book of Mormon

Sydney Lyric Theatre, The Star, Sydney

BookOfMormonMusical.com.au



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