Broadway in Orlando review: Scatological satire 'The Book of Mormon' hasn't lost its bite
Oct 23, 2024
It’s been seven years since Broadway’s The Book of Mormon last toured to Orlando, and prior to walking into the Dr. Phillips Center on Tuesday night I was uncertain how the award-winning scatological satire from the creators of South Park (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) and Avenue Q (Robert Lopez) would be received by a modern audience. After all, countless cranky comedians have been complaining that anything edgy or outrageous is now outlawed, so how would today’s supposedly woke theater patrons react to an R-rated musical romp about teenage Utahn missionaries proselytizing to impoverished Ugandans? The answer, it turns out, is with gales nearly nonstop laughter and repeated showstopping cheers — from the first doorbell ring to the final scrotum gag — proving that even after Black Lives Matter, The Book of Mormon still hasn’t lost its bite.