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The Book of Mormon is a musical comedy with music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone.The story follows two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as they attempt to preach the faith to the inhabitants of a remote Ugandan village.
The Book of Mormon was named best musical theater album at the 2012 Grammy Awards. [1] Parker, Lopez, and Stone wrote the musical progressively over a period of six years, beginning in 2004. The recording for the album took place over three days, with the orchestra recording for one and the cast recording for another.
He served as co-composer, musical director, and keyboard 1 in the pit orchestra, as well as playing the role of Gilderoy Lockhart. [4] In 2013, Holmes was the standby for Elder Cunningham on The Book of Mormon in the Chicago, Illinois production. He also composed the music for StarKid's Twisted alongside Kaley McMahon, who wrote the lyrics. [5]
It was the first of a staggering number of statuettes, as The Producers movie he wrote and directed won the Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1969; after he turned the film into a Broadway musical in ...
The Book of Mormon premiered on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on March 24, 2011, following previews from February 24. The show received numerous theater awards, including the 2011 Tony for Best Musical, as well as two more Tony Awards for Lopez: Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical. [11]
A Franklin native is saying "Hello!" to a career on Broadway. Andrew Stevens Purdy, a graduate of the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, stars in the Tony-Award winning musical "The Book ...
Andrew Scott Rannells (born August 23, 1978) is an American actor. He is best known for originating the role of Elder Kevin Price in the 2011 Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
Oremus, meanwhile, is a Tony winner for his orchestrations on “The Book of Mormon” and “Kinky Boots,” and has also taken the lead on fleshing out the scores for Broadway shows like ...