Is South Park going to Broadway ?: ah kinda ...

South Park and the Book of Mormon goes to Broadway :(Melody sung: dum, dum, dum,dum,dum)

March 26, 2011

Ok not, South Park , but the creators , Trey and Matt Stone . Their now Broadway Producers...WHAT ?

That's right ! They have teamed up with a Tony a Tony ,Award winning Producer named Robert Lopez who co-wrote, Avenue Q. So,the idea came from Trey Parker. According to the Hollywood Reporter Trey says ,
Growing up in Colorado, next door to Utah, Parker and Stone had long been familiar with the Mormon church and its members; Parker even dated a Mormon girl and was badly hurt when she ditched him.,which were guessing was the inspiration for the "Mormon episode" on South Park ....for who remember or click this link...sing with us ....Ready sing.... (Melody sung: dum, dum, dum,dum,dum) ! LOL


Back to the Hollywood Reporter story, 
At 41, he ( Trey Parker) is no longer the enfant terrible who became notorious for lampooning everyone and everything — from Tom Cruise to Paris Hilton to Muhammad — and, along with Stone, even appearing in a dress at the Oscars. Rather, there’s a high seriousness to him that might surprise South Park aficionados.

On producer Scott Rudin’s advice, Parker and Stone went to see the writer-composer’s Tony-winning Avenue Q, then took him for a drink.
“Bobby said, ‘I want to do something about Joseph Smith,’ ” recalls Stone, the younger and more extroverted of the South Park duo, referrring to the founder of the Mormon religion. “And we were like: ‘Wait! We want to do something about Joseph Smith!’ ” Ready sing.... (Melody: dum, dum, dum,dum,dum) !

In 2006, Parker and Stone flew to London, where they spent three weeks with Lopez while he was working on the West End production of Avenue Q. “We wrote four or five songs and came up with the basic germ of the idea there — that they would go somewhere not Salt Lake City-like,” Parker recalls.
During the next few years, the trio met frequently to develop what they initially called The Book of Mormon: The Musical of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Book of Mormon, about two young missionaries who are sent to Uganda. Ready sing.... (Melody: dum, dum, dum,dum,dum) !



“When someone goes, ‘Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,’ there’s not a piece of my body that goes, ‘Sweet!’ ” Parker asserts. “That means I did it wrong. I’m just trying to make people laugh.”
Which is precisely what he says he’s trying to do with Mormon.

If anything, the shock element seems a distraction, as if Stone and Parker were reminding us they’re still the South Park creators of old when in truth they’re reaching for something new. 
“South Park is way bigger than either of us,” he says. “And it’s this curse, and when we are doing it, I hate it. I’m pissed off and I’m tired, and every single Tuesday I say, ‘This is the worst show we’ve ever done!’ It’s brutal. But it’s something I am a part of that’s bigger than I am. That’s what most important.”
Says Rudin: “It’s this thing that happens rarely in the culture, where something very subversive is also very affirmative. It has affirmative values but also tears down every possible institution.”
That combination has resulted in an enterprise worth hundreds of millions of dollars. South Park T-shirts alone generated some $30 million in sales in the late ’90s.

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