Pros: Utterly hilarious, deeply offensive, great songs and great dancing; nearly everything I was hoping it would be!
Cons: I didn’t get that intangible feeling that you get when you see a truly incredible, life-changing show. A brilliant show from start to finish.
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RATING
Excellent!
I can never remember a show opening in the West End with such a fanfare. Nine Tony Awards, a series of broken box office records, and nothing else in the theatre world headlines for the last month or so. Even I was quite excited when, four months after I had booked my tickets, my turn had come to see what all the fuss was about.
My verdict (which I’m sure has been as highly anticipated as the show itself!) is as follows: The Book of Mormon is hilarious, clever, camp, wonderfully rude, and it has noticeably good choreography…. But it isn’t as ground-breakingly brilliant as I was hoping it would be. Like many others, I genuinely believe that it has been over-hyped. I’m not trying to be contrarian, and I’m not saying that it isn’t fantastically good, because it certainly is! What I am saying however, is that I thought I was going to walk out of the theatre wanting to talk about nothing else, but by the time we’d reached the bus stop on Shaftesbury Avenue, my group’s conversation about it was over. We all agreed it was excellent, but nobody was so enthused that they wanted to talk about it all the way home.
Written by: Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez
Directed by: Trey Parker and Casey Nicholaw
Booking Until: 19th Sept 2015
Booking Link: http://www.showsinlondon.co.uk/show/the-book-of-mormon
