The Genius of “Mormon”
If those great 18th Century Satirists, Voltaire and Jonathan Swift were alive today, they would have written “The Book of Mormon.” It is truly the 21st Century’s answer to that masterpiece, “Candide.” Its brilliance lies in the fact that it deals in the truth, the truth of a certain “holy book,” the political truths of rampant AIDS and female genital mutilation in Africa and throws it all together in a completely irreverent musical send up of every musical from the Sound of Music to the Lion King. They offend all of us and therefore none of us. Run don’t walk to see this piece. Through “gut wrenching” (literally) laughter it will help you process all the absurdities and horrors of our current world.
