Book of Mormon--The Musical

So...this one's been around for some time now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar

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Originally posted by beternU:
This is for real. A Broadway musical entitled "The Book of Mormon" recently opened, to numerous good reviews!

Here is a link to one review of the musical, written by a Mormon (emphasis added by me):

http://blog.beliefnet.com/flun...-mormon-musical.html

An excerpt from the review:

"Where the show really nails Mormonism is in the ballad “I Believe,” sung by Elder Price when he remembers his call to serve and decides to head back to the mission field. “I am a Mormon, and a Mormon just believes,” he croons. This brilliant song is at once a mockery of the genre of the inspirational ballad and an affirmation of the choice to remain Mormon despite the apparent irrationality of some of the religion’s beliefs “I believe that in 1978, God changed his mind about black people!” Elder Price sings. “I believe that God is on a planet called Kolob!”"

Save your money for a plane trip and a ticket, WINDSONG! Your cult has arrived on the Great White Way!!!!!

( Goodness Bet, did you read the review? It starts by saying it is Satirizeing of the Mormons, also says its HARD EDGED. Its a play by the South Park people and in no way is to be ment as a true dipection of the MORMON RELIGION. tHE SONG ABOUT gOD LIVING ON A PLANET CALLED kOLOB IS A MADE UP SONG, WE DONT BELIEVE THAT OR TEACH IT. yOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEPERATE FICTION FROM REALITY. yOU DIG REALLY LOW BY TRYING TO DISCREDIT mORMONS WITH THIS TRIPE!)

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Originally posted by WINDSONG:

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Originally posted by beternU:
This is for real. A Broadway musical entitled "The Book of Mormon" recently opened, to numerous good reviews!

Here is a link to one review of the musical, written by a Mormon( HE MUSICAL WAS WRITTEN BY THE SOUTH PARK PEOPLE NOT A MORMON!) (emphasis added by me):

http://blog.beliefnet.com/flun...-mormon-musical.html

An excerpt from the review:

"Where the show really nails Mormonism is in the ballad “I Believe,” sung by Elder Price when he remembers his call to serve and decides to head back to the mission field. “I am a Mormon, and a Mormon just believes,” he croons. This brilliant song is at once a mockery of the genre of the inspirational ballad and an affirmation of the choice to remain Mormon despite the apparent irrationality of some of the religion’s beliefs “I believe that in 1978, God changed his mind about black people!” Elder Price sings. “I believe that God is on a planet called Kolob!”"

Save your money for a plane trip and a ticket, WINDSONG! Your cult has arrived on the Great White Way!!!!!

( Goodness Bet, did you read the review? It starts by saying it is Satirizeing of the Mormons, also says its HARD EDGED. Its a play by the South Park people and in no way is to be ment as a true dipection of the MORMON RELIGION. tHE SONG ABOUT gOD LIVING ON A PLANET CALLED kOLOB IS A MADE UP SONG, WE DONT BELIEVE THAT OR TEACH IT. yOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEPERATE FICTION FROM REALITY. yOU DIG REALLY LOW BY TRYING TO DISCREDIT mORMONS WITH THIS TRIPE!)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co...e-critics-think.html

For their first big Broadway venture, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the duo behind "South Park," have trained their satirical missile system on the Mormon Church. Along with Robert Lopez of "Avenue Q," they have set out to make a big, full-blooded musical with an irreverently comic heart.

"The Book of Mormon" officially opened Thursday at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York. Directed by Parker and Casey Nicholaw, the show tells the story of two young Mormon missionaries (Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad) who travel to a remote Ugandan village. The musical, which features an original book and score by Parker, Stone and Lopez, satirizes such topics as religion, AIDS and "The Lion King."

Like another high-profile Broadway musical with a name-brand creative team, "The Book of Mormon" has been relentlessly covered by the media. Parker and Stone have gone on the record stating that "we wanted to make this not just cynical and Mormon bashing, but hopeful and happy," according to the New York Times.

Meanwhile, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been conspicuously low-key about the show. Earlier this year, the church issued a terse statement saying that "the production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ."

How did the critics react to the show? It's fair to say that "The Book of Mormon" has made converts out of most of them.

Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the musical "has all the fearlessness one would expect" from the makers of "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut." But at its core, the production is "an old-fashioned musical comedy heart" that "can feel at times oddly familiar."
The New York Times' Ben Brantley called the production "old-fashioned" and "pleasure-giving," a show that "both makes fun of and ardently embraces the all-American art form of the inspirational book musical." As for the ensemble cast, it's "the best in a musical since Susan Stroman's team for 'The Producers.'"

David Rooney of the Hollywood Reporter wrote that the team has "created one of the freshest original musicals in recent memory." The show "packs plenty of blissful profanity, sacrilege and politically incorrect mischief," but its "defining quality ... is its sweetness."

The Washington Post's Peter Marks described the show as a "pricelessly entertaining act of musical-comedy subversion" and an "extraordinarily well-crafted musical assault on all things holy." He added that "the piece is ultimately more effective as pop entertainment [than other edgier musicals] because it refreshes the old templates rather than viewing them as worn out."

Elysa Gardner of USA Today wrote that "the most surprising thing about 'Mormon' ... may be its inherent sweetness." The creative team behind the show manages to "avoid the self-congratulatory snark common to their generation of comedy writers.... Neither the Mormons nor the Ugandans are mocked for their belief systems; they're parodied for their mutual human fallibility."

In case you missed this part-also which Mormon wrote it??
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Elysa Gardner of USA Today wrote that "the most surprising thing about 'Mormon' ... may be its inherent sweetness." The creative team behind the show manages to "avoid the self-congratulatory snark common to their generation of comedy writers.... Neither the Mormons nor the Ugandans are mocked for their belief systems; they're parodied for their mutual human fallibility."

Again, which writer is the Mormon?


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“They’ve matured. I’m very proud of the men they’ve become.” — “South Park” exec producer Anne Garefino, on Parker and Stone
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This nightmare, a good problem to have, might have been averted if not for a chance meeting with Robert Lopez in 2004.

On producer Scott Rudin’s advice, Parker and Stone went to see the writer-composer’s Tony-winning Avenue Q, then took him for a drink.

“Bobby said, ‘I want to do something about Joseph Smith,’ ” recalls Stone, the younger and more extroverted of the South Park duo, referrring to the founder of the Mormon religion. “And we were like: ‘Wait! We want to do something about Joseph Smith!’ ”

Growing up in Colorado, next door to Utah, Parker and Stone had long been familiar with the Mormon church and its members; Parker even dated a Mormon girl and was badly hurt when she ditched him.

They had first thought of a fictionalized Smith while working on an aborted Fox TV series about historical characters. Now, with Lopez, they started bandying about more concrete ideas — though they weren’t sure if their work would lead to a play or a film or something else altogether — only to realize Smith didn’t provide a strong enough hook.

“Within a few days, we were like, ‘Nah!’ ” Parker says. “We pretty quickly got to a modern story.”

This new version revolved around two young men who would go into the world on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a missionary task that’s obligatory for all Mormons. Precisely who they would be and where they would go remained undetermined.

In an effort to hone the tale, the three creators — who jointly wrote the book, music and lyrics — took a research trip to Salt Lake City.

“Bobby had never been there,” Stone remembers, “so we ended up doing all the visitor stuff and museums but mostly talking to a lot of people.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.c...e-trey-parker-171189

The "1978" thing in Beter's post sort of caught my eye and I looked it up. Try googling "mormons and black people" it is quite shocking that being black was considered by them to be a curse and that they were "the children of Cain". Until 1978 black people were banned from LDS priesthood and from their temples.

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Originally posted by BFred07:
The "1978" thing in Beter's post sort of caught my eye and I looked it up. Try googling "mormons and black people" it is quite shocking that being black was considered by them to be a curse and that they were "the children of Cain". Until 1978 black people were banned from LDS priesthood and from their temples.

You are about 33 years late with that news. Today white people still persicute blacks but in our church they are welcomed with open arms. There were even blacks in our church before 1978. MANY of our members are black. I have noticed in many religions out there you find a black COC church and down the road a white COC church! I also find that to be true with the Baptist, Methodest and many other sects. BUT, YOU WILL NEVER SEE TZHAT IN A MORMON CHURCH. Not at all in the original LDS, its all Gods Church!)

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Originally posted by WINDSONG:

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Originally posted by BFred07:
The "1978" thing in Beter's post sort of caught my eye and I looked it up. Try googling "mormons and black people" it is quite shocking that being black was considered by them to be a curse and that they were "the children of Cain". Until 1978 black people were banned from LDS priesthood and from their temples.

You are about 33 years late with that news. Today white people still persicute blacks but in our church they are welcomed with open arms. There were even blacks in our church before 1978. MANY of our members are black. I have noticed in many religions out there you find a black COC church and down the road a white COC church! I also find that to be true with the Baptist, Methodest and many other sects. BUT, YOU WILL NEVER SEE TZHAT IN A MORMON CHURCH. Not at all in the original LDS, its all Gods Church!)

I'm glad that LDS corrected that error, now if they will just correct a few other things like getting rid of the Book of Mormon, getting this idea out of their heads that they can become gods, realize there is only one God, boot out those crooks who claim they're prophets, and a few other things then y'all might actually be able to eventually call yourself Christians.

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Originally posted by BFred07:

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Originally posted by WINDSONG:

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Originally posted by BFred07:
The "1978" thing in Beter's post sort of caught my eye and I looked it up. Try googling "mormons and black people" it is quite shocking that being black was considered by them to be a curse and that they were "the children of Cain". Until 1978 black people were banned from LDS priesthood and from their temples.

You are about 33 years late with that news. Today white people still persicute blacks but in our church they are welcomed with open arms. There were even blacks in our church before 1978. MANY of our members are black. I have noticed in many religions out there you find a black COC church and down the road a white COC church! I also find that to be true with the Baptist, Methodest and many other sects. BUT, YOU WILL NEVER SEE TZHAT IN A MORMON CHURCH. Not at all in the original LDS, its all Gods Church!)

I'm glad that LDS corrected that error, now if they will just correct a few other things like getting rid of the Book of Mormon, getting this idea out of their heads that they can become gods, realize there is only one God, boot out those crooks who claim they're prophets, and a few other things then y'all might actually be able to eventually call yourself Christians.

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Originally posted by WINDSONG:

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Originally posted by WINDSONG:

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Originally posted by beternU:
This is for real. A Broadway musical entitled "The Book of Mormon" recently opened, to numerous good reviews!

Here is a link to one review of the musical, written by a Mormon( HE MUSICAL WAS WRITTEN BY THE SOUTH PARK PEOPLE NOT A MORMON!) (emphasis added by me):

http://blog.beliefnet.com/flun...-mormon-musical.html

An excerpt from the review:

"Where the show really nails Mormonism is in the ballad “I Believe,” sung by Elder Price when he remembers his call to serve and decides to head back to the mission field. “I am a Mormon, and a Mormon just believes,” he croons. This brilliant song is at once a mockery of the genre of the inspirational ballad and an affirmation of the choice to remain Mormon despite the apparent irrationality of some of the religion’s beliefs “I believe that in 1978, God changed his mind about black people!” Elder Price sings. “I believe that God is on a planet called Kolob!”"

Save your money for a plane trip and a ticket, WINDSONG! Your cult has arrived on the Great White Way!!!!!

( Goodness Bet, did you read the review? It starts by saying it is Satirizeing of the Mormons, also says its HARD EDGED. Its a play by the South Park people and in no way is to be ment as a true dipection of the MORMON RELIGION. tHE SONG ABOUT gOD LIVING ON A PLANET CALLED kOLOB IS A MADE UP SONG, WE DONT BELIEVE THAT OR TEACH IT. yOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEPERATE FICTION FROM REALITY. yOU DIG REALLY LOW BY TRYING TO DISCREDIT mORMONS WITH THIS TRIPE!)

Well, WINDSONG, allow me to correct the assertion in the musical. They indeed did misrepresent Mormon teaching about where the Mormon god (who was, according to them, formerly a human being) lives. I will give it to you straight out of your own Mormon phony scripture, the Pearl of Great Price (actually a Pile of Great Tripe). Here ya go, WINDSONG:

"AND I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees;
And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;

And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest."

Yes, WINDSONG, in the Mormon fantasy, there is a Kolub, but it is a star neat the supposed planet upon which the sup[posed Mormon god suposedly dwells, not the planet where he and his supposed harem of innumerable wives copulate ceaselessly to populate the supposed cosmic domain over which he supposedly reigns.

Lest there are any doubts about what I have posted here about all this Mormon nuttiness, I am providing you with a link to an ardently pro-LDS web page LDS web page where you can read about this Kolub crackpottery for yourself
No extra charge.

http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blkolob.htm

Glad to correct that for you, WINDSONG.

quote:

This is for real. A Broadway musical entitled "The Book of Mormon" recently opened, to numerous good reviews!

Here is a link to one review of the musical, written by a Mormon (emphasis added by me):

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In an effort to hone the tale, the three creators — who jointly wrote the book, music and lyrics — took a research trip to Salt Lake City.

“Bobby had never been there,” Stone remembers, “so we ended up doing all the visitor stuff and museums but mostly talking to a lot of people.”
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Which writer is the Mormon??

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Originally posted by beternU:

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Originally posted by WINDSONG:

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Originally posted by WINDSONG:

quote:

Originally posted by beternU:
This is for real. A Broadway musical entitled "The Book of Mormon" recently opened, to numerous good reviews!

Here is a link to one review of the musical, written by a Mormon( HE MUSICAL WAS WRITTEN BY THE SOUTH PARK PEOPLE NOT A MORMON!) (emphasis added by me):

http://blog.beliefnet.com/flun...-mormon-musical.html

An excerpt from the review:

"Where the show really nails Mormonism is in the ballad “I Believe,” sung by Elder Price when he remembers his call to serve and decides to head back to the mission field. “I am a Mormon, and a Mormon just believes,” he croons. This brilliant song is at once a mockery of the genre of the inspirational ballad and an affirmation of the choice to remain Mormon despite the apparent irrationality of some of the religion’s beliefs “I believe that in 1978, God changed his mind about black people!” Elder Price sings. “I believe that God is on a planet called Kolob!”"

Save your money for a plane trip and a ticket, WINDSONG! Your cult has arrived on the Great White Way!!!!!

( Goodness Bet, did you read the review? It starts by saying it is Satirizeing of the Mormons, also says its HARD EDGED. Its a play by the South Park people and in no way is to be ment as a true dipection of the MORMON RELIGION. tHE SONG ABOUT gOD LIVING ON A PLANET CALLED kOLOB IS A MADE UP SONG, WE DONT BELIEVE THAT OR TEACH IT. yOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEPERATE FICTION FROM REALITY. yOU DIG REALLY LOW BY TRYING TO DISCREDIT mORMONS WITH THIS TRIPE!)

Well, WINDSONG, allow me to correct the assertion in the musical. They indeed did misrepresent Mormon teaching about where the Mormon god (who was, according to them, formerly a human being) lives. I will give it to you straight out of your own Mormon phony scripture, the Pearl of Great Price (actually a Pile of Great Tripe). Here ya go, WINDSONG:

"AND I, Abraham, had the Urim and Thummim, which the Lord my God had given unto me, in Ur of the Chaldees;
And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;

And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest."

Yes, WINDSONG, in the Mormon fantasy, there is a Kolub, but it is a star neat the supposed planet upon which the sup[posed Mormon god suposedly dwells, not the planet where he and his supposed harem of innumerable wives copulate ceaselessly to populate the supposed cosmic domain over which he supposedly reigns.

Lest there are any doubts about what I have posted here about all this Mormon nuttiness, I am providing you with a link to an ardently pro-LDS web page LDS web page where you can read about this Kolub crackpottery for yourself
No extra charge.

http://lds.about.com/library/bl/faq/blkolob.htm

Glad to correct that for you, WINDSONG.

Thank you sir! You are sometimes a scholor and a gentleman. BTW, its KOLOB not KOLUB. God has to live somewhere doesnt He?

The answer is none of the writers are Mormons-they have made fun of every religion, and this is a nothing thread. Goodnight all.