The Book of Mormon: Parker & Stone | 60 Minutes Archive
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park creators, achieved massive Broadway success with their satirical musical *The Book of Mormon*, grossing $32 million, selling out for years, and winning nine Tony Awards for its blasphemous take on Mormon missionaries in AIDS-ravaged Africa. Their career began with the cult film *Cannibal! The Musical*, exploded via the viral *Spirit of Christmas* cartoon leading to South Park's 15+ seasons of profane, boundary-pushing episodes parodying religion, politics, race, and more. The duo's partnership thrives on shared subversive humor, total creative freedom, and balancing sharp ridicule of dogma with pro-faith uplift, sustained by a tight team despite controversies.
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If you came to New York this summer to see a Broadway play or musical, the one show you couldn't get tickets for was The Book of Mormon. Book reservations now to see it next summer. The new musical is from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park, which changed cable TV and is celebrating its 15th season. They're working their magic on Broadway with outrageous satire. Not their first musical: South Park movie included Oscar-nominated song Blame Canada. Now the toast of Broadway.
Scene outside Eugene O'Neill Theater since March: people line up for The Book of Mormon, hottest ticket on Broadway. Grossed $32 million, sold out for next 5 months, probably for years.
Were you surprised it's been so successful? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I mean, we thought it was good. We thought the songs were really good but we didn't think it was going to be like this.
Musical is satire of clean-cut, earnest Mormons with unorthodox beliefs and playful sendup of all organized religion.
Hello, my name is Elder Price. Hello, my name is Elder Young. Did you know that Jesus lived here in the USA?
Story of two mismatched missionaries (Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad) sent to Africa to proselytize to pagans who have heard similar spiels with no results.
And in this part of Africa, we all have a say. Whenever something bad happens, we just throw our hands to the sky and say Hasa Diga Eebowai.
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