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The Book of Mormon, 2011

Shows · The Book of Mormon · Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 2011

We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against The Book of Mormon and could document any of its runs. None
Original BroadwayEugene O'Neill Theatre 5,000 performances9 Tony Awards

The run dates incomplete

Opened
2011
Closed
Performances
5,000
Previews
Theatre
Eugene O'Neill Theatre

Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 2nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.

Who was in it103 named

Rory O Malley
Michael Potts
Justin Bohon
Lewis Cleale
Kevin Duda
Brian Tyree Henry
Clark Johnsen
Benjamin Schrader
Michael James Scott
Brian Sears
Jason Michael Snow
Lawrence Stallings
Maia Nkenge Wilson
Tommar Wilson
Kevin Clay
Sydney Quildon
Jacques C Smith
Thomas Doelger
Rosharra Francis
Garfield Hammonds
Arica Jackson
Kristen Jeter
Vance Klassen
John K Kramer
Brett Michael Lockley
Andrew Stevens Purdy
Jasmin Richardson
Jay Wilkison
Derrick Williams
Ryan Bondy
Dave Thomas Brown
Jordan Matthew Brown
Noah Marlowe
Cody Jamison Strand
Pj Adzima
Keziah John Paul
James Vincent Meredith
Ryan Allen
Stephen Christopher Anthony
Stephen Ashfield
Taprena Michelle Augustine
Shanel Bailey
Jimmy Bain
Jon Bass
Jacob Ben Widmar
Nyk Bielak
Daxton Bloomquist
Ryan Breslin
Jr Bruno
Terren Wooten Clarke
Josh Daniel
Dayna Jarae Dantzler
Christian Delcroix
Ben Estus
Amanda Felicia Foote
Donell James Foreman
Keisha Gilles
Eddie Grey
Marja Harmon
Phyre Hawkins
Carly Hughes
David Hull
Bre Jackson
Carole Denise Jones
Tamika Sonja Lawrence
Ben Laxton
Matt Loehr
Stanley Wayne Mathis
Anastacia McCleskey
Nedra Mcclyde
Mike Mcgowan
Syesha Mercado
Jake Morrissy
Bryonha Marie Parham
Ben Platt
Destinee Rea
Arbender J Robinson
Connor Russell
Kyle Selig
Nichole Turner
Samantha Marie Ware
Hardy Weaver
Bud Weber
Christian Dante White
Candice Marie Woods

22 of these 103 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 81 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters7 roles recorded

Gavin Creel Elder Price
Jared Gertner Elder Cunningham
Samantha Marie Ware Nabulungi
Grey Henson Elder McKinley
Kevin Mambo Mafala Hatimbi
Derrick Williams General
Mike McGowan Joseph Smith / Mission President

Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director
Casey Nicholaw, Trey Parker
Choreographer
Casey Nicholaw

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 9 from 14 nominations

Best Musical Won

Around this production

The LDS Church responded with ads in the Playbill: "You\'ve seen the play, now read the book." The creators called it "the smartest possible response."

Memorable Opening Note: “Fuck You ALL! from Marc Shaiman. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2010 To May 2011 Viagas Robert 7th Annual Ed, p. 76

  • Collectors of Broadway trivia will remember 2012 as the year when Jesus Christ appeared in three musicals running simultaneously on the Great White Way: in a cameo appearance in The Book of Mormon, and as the central figure in concurrent revivals of Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 30
  • The Book of Mormon ($286,725) was the top fundraising Broadway Musical. Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 122
  • 2011: The Book of Mormon; The Book of Mormon won Outstanding Musical at the Drama Desk Awards in 2012. Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 428
  • Frederick Loewe Award for Dramatic Composition: John Kander, Fred Ebb, and David Thompson, The Scottsboro Boys; Robert Lopez, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, The Book of Mormon Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 440
  • Shows as recent as Book of Mormon (Elder McKinley), Something Rotten (Brother Jeremiah), and Spamalot (Lancelot) continue the tradition of broad comedy that The Producers showcases at the expense of the gay characters in the show. Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 868

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
  • No recording is held for The Book of Mormon at all.
  • When it closed.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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