"Book of Mormon" already breaks record in London

CBS News ^ | March 22, 2013

[Colofornian]

NEW YORK The seemingly unstoppable hit "The Book of Mormon" has broken another record

[Colofornian]

From the article: The seemingly unstoppable hit "The Book of Mormon" has broken another record — this time on the other side of the Atlantic. The quirky, profane musical opened Thursday night to some critical bashing, but the next day earned the highest one-day gross in London theater history. Between 10 a.m. and midnight Friday, 2.1 million pounds ($3.2 million) was taken in at the box office, according to preliminary estimates...To put the staggering one-day take in perspective, the highest single-week gross in the West End — from another Yankee show, "Wicked" — was just over 1 million pounds over nine productions during the final week of 2010. "The Book of Mormon" by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and "Avenue Q" composer Robert Lopez tells the story of two Mormon missionaries sent to spread the word in Uganda.

This musical takes aim not only @ Mormons & Mormonism, but a generic "God"...and it certainly hasn't helped that Mormonism's gods -- men who get "god jobs" -- make it easier for liberals to lampoon "God" in general.

(That's what happens when counterfeiters wind up representing "God")

[Rummyfan]

Still waiting for that smash musical The Book of Mohammed to be written by some bracv religion-bashing liberal. Waiting.... waiting... waiting...

[vladimir998]

I’d love to see somebody get the courage to do a musical called The Qur’an.

For some reason I don’t think that that will happen. . . ever.

[Rummyfan]

Sorry... brave!

[Jack Hydrazine]

It played at the Paramount in downtown Seattle in early January to sell out crowd.

[mnehring]

SOUTH PARK CREATORS PLAN ISLAM MUSICAL

[golux]

No Mohammedan Follies. Trans-generationally institutionalized rape, incest, and murder isn’t as quirky as boys in shirts and ties.

[Elsie]

The quirky, profane musical opened Thursday night to some critical bashing, but the next day earned the highest one-day gross in London theater history.

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pro·fane (pr-fn, pr-)
adj.
1. Marked by contempt or irreverence for what is sacred.

Taint NOTHIN' 'sacred' about MORMONism!

[Elsie]

Trans-generationally institutionalized rape, incest, and murder isn’t as quirky as boys in shirts and ties.

Who you callin' a QUIRK; Buster???

[Elsie]

Here we are; bustin our butts 10/6/365 and these GENTILES are callin' us bad names!!!

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[Elsie]

(I wonder if they be a rule about thumpin' they boney heads???)

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[svcw]

Wow, that’s a lot of dough.

[9YearLurker]

Presuming they make it as cuddly as the BofM, it’ll probably be good advertising for the Religion of Peace.

[Colofornian]

No Mohammedan Follies.

(It's easier to take on a racist god like the Mormon gods...gods who put up "No blacks allowed" signs in Mormon temples...gods who demand multiple wives to be a rising leader in the cult)

[JoeProBono]

[traumer]

HAHA !

[golux]

“OK. Dude. One more freakin’ time:
Do not embark on an airplane.
Do not handle firearms.
Do not handle explosives.
And wear your freakin’ jammies underneath. Hello?”

[golux]

I can see by your post history you’ve got chapter and verse up the wazoo and are focused like a laser on challenging Mormonism, and as a Jew who went to Catholic and Anglican schools I certainly won’t challenge your own interpretations of your own books... But surely we can agree it’s more pleasant to have neighbors who ‘fundamentally’ believe in science fiction, whether or not they are right, than neighbors who ‘fundamentally’ believe in killing you, whether or not they are right?

And what’s it to you whether Mormons like blacks? Are you black? Do you wish to become Mormon? What do you think most Moslems think of “blacks,” hmm? Who gathered and sold the slaves? Who created the slave trade and had it in place worldwide long before the New World? Mormons?

[Colofornian]

...as a Jew...And what’s it to you whether Mormons like blacks? Are you black?

Wow! (I didn't know racism was a "black-only" issue; or that it applied to only blacks. Thanx for "educating" me. /S)

[Colofornian]

What do you think most Moslems think of “blacks,” hmm?

(Well I know what they think of Christians: We're the "infidels"...pretty close actually to the Mormon worldview of Christians...to Mormons, we're the "apostates"...Hence they seem to be on the "same page" of a LOT of things...like the first Sept. 11 domestic terror act in this country did not take place in 2001...'twas 1857...when 120 innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered in Western Utah...called the Mountain Meadows Massacre...and the perps involved? Yup. Those "peace-filled" Mormons!)