Latest Events, Information & Tickets. Independent Theater Guide. Not a box office or venue.
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British Columbia, you’re in for the best kind of surprise as The Book of Mormon, one of Broadway’s wittiest, cleverest, and most comedic plays is arriving and performing in Vancouver on Saturday 16th November 2024 at the one and only Queen Elizabeth Theatre! Take part in a musical viewing that makes you fall in love with classical theatre, full of hysterical and comedic twists.
Produced from a collaboration of the creators of the famous comedy TV series South Park and the musical Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon tells the story of two Mormon missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, as they try to convert local villagers in Uganda. In the same fashion to their previous productions, the musical takes the serious theme of religion and satirizes it through both script and music.
As Ben Brantley of The NYC Times shares, just like South Park, it is “also blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet on a blue streak. But trust me when I tell you that its heart is as pure as that of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show”.
Make the most out of your chance to be one of the lucky ones and get a seat to this stunning show, before they run out!
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Welcome to Vancouver's most spacious and world-class play venues, Queen Elizabeth Theatre is proud to host the Book of Mormon on November at Saturday 16th November 2024. Enjoy world-class staging, interior design, and acoustics, Queen Elizabeth Theatre is already applauded by both locals and tourists in Vancouver as its top musical venue.
The musical runs at 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Book of Mormon was a surprising yet welcome addition to Broadway theatres when it started over 10 years ago, back in 2011 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The inventive take on the Book of Mormon was a record-breaker. In just the first nine months of the show, it broke the weekly box office record 22 times!! By mid-2022, it had already grossed more than $1 Billion Dollars around the world. Showing throughout the past decade, the musical amassed awards worldwide as well, ranging from Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, Olivier Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Helpmann awards among other citations!
The Book of Mormon blends the themes of faith, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its plot features two very different Latter-day saints (LDS) missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, its central characters, as they perform their two-year mission to convert the local population of a remote village in Uganda to their religion. This proves to be more difficult than expected however, as they discover that the village faces more pressing matters such as poverty, famine, an HIV/AIDS epidemic, and even oppression from a local warlord. Though not initially successful, it is Cunningham who is able to successfully preach to the locals with help from the local leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and an original approach . Though not as well versed on the Mormon doctrine as his fellow Mormons, he invents stories that are a combination of fact and fiction, copying from science fiction and fantasy works such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings that lead on the villagers more to convert. The two techniques of Price and Cunningham clash, orthodox and unorthodox respectively, as they both try to conceive the best way to achieve the mission they set out for in the first place.
The Book of Mormon’s decade-long run continues in Vancouver. Tickets are purchasable by clicking the link provided above.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre - Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, , US