{"id":136800,"date":"2018-06-18T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136800"},"modified":"2018-09-05T18:08:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T00:08:04","slug":"stage-review-the-book-of-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/stage-review-the-book-of-mormon.html","title":{"rendered":"Stage Review: "The Book of Mormon""},"content":{"rendered":"

We attended a Fathers Day matinee of The Book of Mormon,<\/i> which is on tour and passing through Denver right now at the DCPA. We all had fun from my entering-college son to my devout mother.<\/p>\n

It's an interesting show, beyond having some great tunes. While it definitely pokes barbed fun at the LDS church as both an institution and mythos (and, by extension, organized religion and blind faith in general), it also speaks to both the humanity that spiritual belief can build up, and the human need to create myths to illuminate and inspire that humanity.<\/p>\n

Since this is South Park<\/i>'s Trey Parker and Matt Stone (and the analogous talent of Robert Lopez, of Avenue Q<\/i> fame), the story is packed to the gills with irreverence (and not just about religion — there was more than one moment where I was, "They're singing about that?!)<\/i> — and, as with all satire, one's personal comfort level with different oxen being gored will vary. But I nabbed a copy of the sound track from the swag shop at the theater ("Warning! Explicit lyrics!"), and plan to get to know the music even better, because there is some funny shit there.<\/p>\n

I'm glad we went; it was a fun part of Fathers Day with the family.<\/p>\n

Book of Mormon<\/i> plays at the DCPA until 7 July (https:\/\/www.denvercenter.org\/shows\/specific-series\/Get?Id=76cce1c8-11ed-4630-abe9-f78213413f7c<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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