Check out the insightful Terry Gross / NPR interview with Matt Parker and Trey Stone (of South Park fame) on their creative process while developing Broadway's "Book of Mormon". In contrast to taking about a week to completely write, animate and produce an episode of South Park, their Broadway production took the better part of the last 7 years.
Most surprisingly? It's not two cynical hours of bashing either religion (broadly) or Mormonism (specifically).
Leave it to Parker and Stone to so successfully swim against the mainstream cultural current. The show isn't about "religion". It's about having the faith to be illogically optimistic and hopeful in spite of all apparent realities. So I guess it is about religion. Or teenagers. :)
I've downloaded the original cast recording on iTunes. Great stuff. On the down side? Justine is probably going to insist I start watching "Glee".
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