{"id":3500,"date":"2010-04-15T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2010\/04\/south-park-creators-tackle-boo.html"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:11:43","slug":"south-park-creators-tackle-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2010\/04\/south-park-creators-tackle-boo.html","title":{"rendered":"South Park Creators Tackle &#8216;Book of Mormon&#8217; for Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"2493\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/imgs\/mormoncalendar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mormoncalendar.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/assets_c\/2008\/12\/mormoncalendar-thumb-220x220-2493.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/form>\n<p>We should have seen this coming. At least those of us who caught<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southparkstudios.com\/guide\/712\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the 2003 &#8220;All About Mormons&#8221;<\/a> episode of the riotous and irreverent animated show, South Park, should have realized that creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker hadn&#8217;t exhausted the reserves of things they had to say and sing about Mormon life. (I mean, that episode didn&#8217;t even mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/12\/calendar-boys-mormon-hunks-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Men on a Mission&#8221; Mormon hunks calendar<\/a>&#8230;)Now, Parker and Stone, together with Avenue Q co-creator Robert Lopez, have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/8621980.stm\" target=\"_blank\">written script, music and lyrics for a new Broadway musical, &#8220;The Book of Mormon,<\/a>&#8221; which &#8220;will tell the story of two young Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda to spread the church&#8217;s gospel.&#8221;&#8221;Growing up in Colorado, a lot of our friends were Mormons and we always thought their book would make a great musical,&#8221; Parker and Stone said in a joint statement (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/8621980.stm\" target=\"_blank\">cited at BBC News Online<\/a>).The show, which will be directed by Parker and Avenue Q director Jason Moore, is due in March of 2011, and with South Park and Avenue Q as the creators&#8217; collective pedigree, is bound become a controversial and irreverent treatment of Mormon life. 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