Video: Series creators South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone conquer London with the new musical The Book of Mormon
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
An audience that is closely acquainted with the "work" of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, just by looking at the title of the performance, can immediately guess what will be discussed. The Book of Mormon is an unrivaled satirical "song and dance" musical about a pair of Mormon missionaries sent from Salt Lake City to the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Both American critics and ordinary viewers met with ecstatic delight the play The Book of Mormon, which appeared on Broadway in New York in 2011. Satire on adherents of the Mormon religion flew over the Atlantic Ocean at a crazy speed and covered London streets in a wave. Hundreds of UK fans lined up all night to get tickets for the preview. And at the moment, all tickets for the comedy musical are sold out until July.
Among the British audiences at the show were such famous figures as Helena Bonham Carter, David Cameron and Lily Allen. Also famous comedian Simon Cowell, who attended the show, urges his fans to "break all the commandments, but get yourself a ticket."
Most British critics argue that audiences should be cautious, as this "furious" performance "causes a drooping jaw and a shortness of breath from shock." Of course, this was the intention of its creators. As this musical is the brainchild of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the cult TV series South Park, and Robert Lopez, Tony Award winner for musical parody of Sesame Street.
Kevin Price, a handsome, confident young Mormon from Salt Lake City, travels to Africa on his first mission to spread the word of God. His partner turns out to be a fat, inhibited Arnold, who, in order to succeed, distorts his religion in any way, if only Africans would like it. At this time, honest Price has nightmares that they will go to hell. Upon arrival in Uganda, the Mormons meet with the natives, who sing a joyous song that would sound appropriate in Disney's The Lion King: “Whenever something bad happens, we just raise hands to the sky and say: "Hasa Diga Eebowai" - say the natives.
Ugandans are portrayed as inhabitants of primitive huts, dreaming of Mormons and the "promised land" - Salt Lake City, whose name they mistakenly pronounce ("Sal Talai-ka City"). They are full of delusions and do not know how to use primitive techniques, for example, they believe that they can send text messages by beating a typewriter.
With the help of a grotesque of this kind, the authors want to display the ideas of the Mormon faith, which ultimately of the musical are reduced to the dictum "it is better to believe in something absurd than not to believe in anything at all."
Aiming at "exposing" the Mormons, Matt Stone and Trey Parker hooked Adolf Hitler, American lawyers, and large corporations such as Starbucks.
At first glance, the techniques of satirical depiction in this musical may seem very primitive, since during the performance you can hear an uncountable amount of swearing and obscene words. But none of the visitors, and even more so fans of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were not disappointed after watching the two-hour musical "The Book of Mormon".
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