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[coolcoates]

South Park's creators to make Mormon musical for Broadway

South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are cooking up a musical which will poke fun at Mormons.

The Broadway musical, which has the working title Mormon Musical, will be based on the unconventional lifestyles of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

The Utah-based church was a key member of a religious coalition which formed to convince the Californian electorate to vote against legalising gay marriage recently.

Cheyenne Jackson, a gay actor who played in the September 11 film United 93, told the New York Post that he had accepted the lead role in the film.

He said: "It's hilarious: very acerbic and biting. It offends everybody, but does what South Park does best, which is [that] by the end it comes around and has something great to say."

He added: "I play the main missionary, Elder something."

Stone and Parker are well known for taking no prisoners with their cartoon, ridiculing everyone and everything from Saddam Hussein to Starbucks.

South Park, about a group of children growing up in a small Colorado town, put cable channel Comedy Central on the map with its satirical take on American life.

It is now in its twelfth year and Stone and Parker are contracted to produce episodes until 2011.

Parker told the LA Times on Tuesday: "We always said, when we feel like we don't want to write the show any more, ourselves, then it's time to end the show."

[Will]

Nothing we haven't heard for the past five years.

[Cannibal Lover]

Published: 9:27AM GMT 19 Nov 2008

This article is a year old. ;)

More posts about Mormon Musical are here.

[coolcoates]

Published: 9:27AM GMT 19 Nov 2008

This article is a year old. ;)

More posts about Mormon Musical are here.

Oh shit yeah - I read that as '2009' haha. My bad.

[Zwerg-im-Bikini]

I am not sure if this is the right thread, but it's the newest about the musical, so I'll use it.

It will will finally be finished in August – September 2010:

http://www.nytw.org/season_09_10.asp
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43808

[willowrose]

Awesome. So I guess we know how they'll be spending their Summer months.

I didn't dare read all those comments for the aint it cool article. I was a little afraid to look. :/

[Cannibal Lover]

'South Park' Duo Hits 200th - And Broadway

It's milestone time for South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Below is a video taste of tomorrow night's 200th episode. They are set to make their Broadway debut in March on The Book Of Mormon, a stage musical. Parker and Stone wrote the book and music with Avenue Q’s Bobby Lopez and Parker will direct with Avenue Q’s Jason Moore. Scott Rudin is producing with Anne Garefino. The Broadway move comes as Comedy Central prepares to air the 200th episode of their irreverent comedy series.

The musical deals with two wide-eyed Mormon boys who go on a two-year mission to Third World countries and underprivileged communities, where they try to convert people to join the Mormon faith. After watching them lacerate scores of notable celebrity and faith--every star skewered in the 14 seasons of South Park appear in tomorrow's 200th episode--my instinct is to fear for the Mormom faithful. Insiders describe the musical as highly subversive and satiric, but with a generous spirit. The theater hasn’t yet been named, but financing is in place and the musical is fully formed after being run through three workshops.

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[Brennan]

Sweeeeeet. I absolutely must get a ticket. Fuck everything else. I gotta be there.

[Jessie]

I love all the Mormon stuff with those two. :)

[poopstain]

The Book of Mormon was plagiarized from a novel by a guy named Spalding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalding%E2%8...rmon_authorship

http://solomonspalding.com/docs/rlds1885.htm


I am guessing maybe Trey is a Jack-mormon........... :packer:

[Will]

So it's Spalding we have to blame for the Mormon Church? :lol:

[poopstain]

dum dum dum dum dummmmy dummm DUM!

apparently Rigdon got ahold of a copy of the Manuscript at Amity, Washington County, Pennsylvania shortly after Spalding died.

dat all i no! :swan:

[willowrose]

So should we all do a field trip to this thing? We could meet up somewhere and then go from there, for the opening. But let's drive. I don't fly. ... Then again, I don't drive either but I'll work that out.

[exparrot]

I don't fly. ... Then again, I don't drive either but I'll work that out.

Two words: hover board.

[willowrose]

If only!!!!

Now I'm in the mood to watch Back to the future.. part 2.