Sunday - April 07, 2013

it’s perverted, crude, gross, vile, filthy and successful. whats that say about the culture?

I’d say this outdoes the Springer opera and may even match that slob Stern for cultural degradation.  With thanks to Chris for those last 2 words. Cultural Degradation indeed.  On a major scale.

What sort of culture approves this kind of thing? What kind of ppl see humor in this?  You don’t even have to be religious to recognize the depravity here.

What’s funny about baby rapes and genital mutilation?  How are those accepted as worthy of the money and attention it is getting?  I think the church elders have made a bad mistake but then, I’m not a member.  But I fail to see how it does them any good except to look like a bunch of suckers to the ppl who have produced this perversion.

As the article states if you read all of it.

The writers’ self-styled reputation for taking on powerful vested interests was dealt an embarrassing blow two years ago, before an episode which featured an image of the prophet Muhammad.

A little known New York-based Islamic website, called Revolution Muslim, warned that the show’s two creators faced being murdered if the depiction went ahead.

Despite the radical group having no more than ten official members, the South Park producers caved in. The images of Muhammad were covered by a ‘censored’ sign and references to him were bleeped out.

The episode still featured a cartoon of Buddha snorting cocaine and Jesus downloading internet porn.

Likewise, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is clearly an easier target than radical Islam.

Even so, producers were so frightened of reprisals they insisted on strict security at the London theatre rehearsals of the musical, with guests having to sign in and mail strictly checked for suspect devices.

As it turned out, the good-natured Mormons decided to see the funny side of theatre’s crudest and most over-hyped show of all time.

But how long will it be before audiences who have paid a small fortune to see it start to feel it is a case of the emperor’s new clothes?

The most over-hyped show on God’s earth: It includes jokes about raping babies but a brilliantly cynical PR blitzkrieg has made The Book Of Mormon a record breaker

Tickets for the show are like gold dust and sales have broken records
Producers spent an unprecedented $1million on marketing in London alone

By Paul Scott

On the basis, presumably, that if you can’t beat them, join them, elders from the Mormon church have paid for three full-page ads in the programme for the new hit West End show The Book Of Mormon.

Which is somewhat surprising, considering that from start to finish the bad-taste musical mercilessly lampoons the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, whose devotees famously include Donny Osmond.

Clearly, they have taken the ‘any publicity is good publicity’ route and hitched their wagon to this unstoppable juggernaut.

Tickets for the foul-mouthed show, which makes fun of raping babies and female genital mutilation, are like gold dust.

Already, it has broken West End box office records, taking more than £2 million in advance bookings in a single day, following its official opening at the end of last month. The sales record was broken after producers released a further 150,000 tickets.

Even so, it is now almost impossible to find a spare seat through official channels until July. Meanwhile, unofficial websites are selling a pair of tickets for later this month for a staggering £750.

Already, the run has been extended until January and the London PR agency hired by the show’s American producers, let slip to me this week they are looking to emulate another West End hit, We Will Rock You, which has been running for 11 years.

And the touts are not the only ones cashing in. The Prince of Wales theatre, where The Book of Mormon is showing, has just put up its prices because of the high demand — with the best seats going for £72.50.

At the same time, highbrow critics are falling over themselves to find ever more fawning superlatives for the musical, which has won nine Tony Awards on Broadway.

One hyperventilating female reviewer from the Guardian wrote: ‘It’s simply a work of genius, so brilliantly conceived and executed that it makes astonishingly savage and sophisticated satire into joyous, hilarious, literally all-singing, all-dancing fun and glamour.

And the Observer’s critic trilled that it is: ‘The most cryingly good night out to have come along in years.’

Not everyone agrees, however. The Mail’s Quentin Letts described the show, which follows two clean-cut Mormon missionaries sent to poverty-stricken Uganda, as ‘cowardly, coarse and cynical’.

One undeniable thing is that The Book of Mormon — written by the American creators of equally controversial adult television cartoon South Park — is fast becoming the most hyped show in theatre history.

Subtle it is not. One song, a spoof of the ditty Hakuna Matata, from Disney’s The Lion King, has the natives belting out an F-word strewn two-fingered salute to God which includes lines such as, ‘**** you, God’ and ‘**** you in the ****.’

Elsewhere, there is a blood-drinking warlord who believes in female circumcision and that raping babies can cure Aids. Later one of the Mormon evangelists persuades the locals the disease can, in fact, be eradicated by indulging in bestiality.

As one of the first to see the show in London, I can attest it is, indeed, vile, offensive and potty-mouthed. Which might be forgivable were it not also puerile, crass and — worst of all — not very funny.

But it must be conceded that on the evidence of the hysterical reaction of the audience at the preview I attended, I am in the minority.

It all depends on your definition of high comedy. I found it surreal sitting stony-faced while those around me dissolved into paroxysms of laughter over an African — who looked like he was straight out of Central Casting — shouting over and over: ‘I have maggots in my scrotum’.

Yet, already there has started a rather sinister online campaign against anyone who doesn’t fall over themselves to praise the show.

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