"The book of Mormon" was a critical and box-office darling even without star big names and nominations of Tony Award on Tuesday could give additional boost: official endorsement of the theatre community. Not bad for a show in which a man loudly complains of having of maggots in his scrotum.
The musical, about two Mormon missionaries who are more that they negotiated in Africa, was written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of "south park" and Robert Lopez, co-creator of the Tony Award-winning musical "Avenue Q." the trio is teaming up with Casey Nicholawwho co-directed with Parker and choreographed.
He received 12 Drama Desk Award nominations, six Outer Critics Circle Award nominations and appointment Fred & Adele Astaire Award, which recognizes excellence in dance. The musical is Box-Office also more 1 million dollars per week and that it sells - location "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was supposed to be before its implosion.
On the front of the theatre piece, two favorites for the appointments of Tony are the hybrid of human puppets comforting "War horse" and David Lindsay-Abaire of the "Good People", a darkly comic exploration of differences of class in Boston. While the "war horse" is a great visually and beautifully directed story of a boy and his horse during the second world war, it is based on a children's book; Lindsay-Abaire game, on the other hand, leaves all Fireworks in his script smart, adult.
"The book of Mormon" and "War horse" are just two hits in good faith in a complicated season which has seen everything for a deemed revival of "The merchant of Venice Shakespeare" for a new raw piece whose title - "The Motherfuckers - with the Hat" - some delicate. It is also a season in which football fans come to see Vince Lombardi prowling a scene from Broadway and applauded James Earl Jones at the wheel in a resumption of "driving Miss Daisy."
"There is absolutely nothing cookie cutter on this season," said Charlotte St. Martin, Executive Director of the Broadway League, jointly produced the awards with the American Theatre Wing Tony. "" "". "The theme is that there is no theme".
42 New productions this season, there were 14 musicals - 12 occasions ones and two new - and 25 pieces of theatre, a whopping 16 of them again. The last time there were 16 new plays produced in a single season was 1986-87.
It is also shaping up to a lucrative time for Broadway, with a large box-office total already be over $ 987,057,484, or 3.6% more than the same period last year. Attendance this season is more than 11.4 million, an increase of 3 per cent on this time last year.
The awards will be given June 12 to a new location: the Beacon Theatre in the Upper West Side of Manhattan after producers lost their space in the long term at the Radio City Music Hall. It will be broadcast live by CBS.
"The book of Mormon" will probably have competition from a trio of musicals that have films in their DNA - "Catch Me If you can", "Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical"and "Sister Act." is there spots for "elf" or "the scottsboro Boys" or "bloody bloody Andrew Jackson"?"
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