Yesterday Larry & I went to see The Book of Mormon musical at the Pantages, along with a good group of friends. It’s spent a few months here at the Pantages while on its national tour, and we all were like, we HAVE to see it. Whenever Larry & I have been back in NYC, it’s still always sold out or whatever tickets are left are easily over $200. It was a much more reasonable price here in LA and we ended up having amazing tickets in the orchestra section.
The show was definitely worth the wait and just as funny as everyone has said it was. It is from Matt Parker and Trey Stone (the South Park guys) so you know it isn’t going to be anything less than outrageous. While the show is ridiculously funny, especially in Act II (at least that was my feeling), I still can’t say if the music and songs themselves are especially noteworthy. The first and last songs have fantastic callbacks to each other with the “Hello, I’m…” hook and those are super catchy, but I can’t say that it has other songs besides those that are ones you’ll find yourself humming after it’s over. So when I get back to the official Broadway rankings I’ve made, it won’t make the top spot, but I think it will be still pretty high up there.
Anyway, I took some pics from last night at the restaurant we went to beforehand (that’s a story I really don’t think I care to get into – good food yet majorly lacking service is the abbreviated version); here they are!
