[Alex Murphy]

....don't look for Mormon protesters standing outside the Straz Center in Tampa, where the smash Broadway production opened Tuesday and runs through Nov. 24. Instead, the church has dispatched locally based missionaries to mingle with theatergoers before the show and during intermission in public areas outside. On the show's second night, four young men and two women gave out 350 “pass-along cards” that give the church's website and a QR code to scan a digital copy of the Book of Mormon, the church's sacred text. The one drawback: Some people think they're cast members. “They wanted to have their pictures taken with us,” said Heidi Birch, 21, of Utah. “After we explained who we were, I think they were excited about meeting sister missionaries”....

....[Ryan Cragun, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Tampa] said “about 90 percent” of the play is accurate about church teachings, though they're presented in a light-hearted or crass manner. It brought back a few memories for him: He spent two years in Costa Rica as a missionary. “It was a little bit like torture. All those amazing beaches and you couldn't swim. I had to enjoy it all in my white shirt, dark pants and tie,” he said, laughing. Instead of solidifying his faith, the mission experience led him to question it. The Book of Mormon, he finally concluded, was filled with “too many gross inaccuracies, and scientific and archeological errors.” He left the church soon after, and had to work through his feelings of anger and betrayal.

[svcw]

I wonder if they embrace BattleStar Galactica.

[Colofornian]

Here are lyrics from the "I Believe" song from the Book of Mormon musical...what I regard as both the heart of the song AND the musical:

I believe-
That God has a plan for all of us.
I believe-
That plan involves
Me getting my own planet.
Source: Original Broadway Production (2011) The Book of Mormon: the Musical - I Believe Lyrics

[Red Badger]

I had two young Mormon missionary girls, probably in their early 20s come to my door a few years ago. They were drop dead gorgeous! They were more beautiful than any Hollywood celeb and probably ten times as intelligent.....................

[Kip Russell]

I recently saw the musical in Denver and thoroughly enjoyed it.