The Book Of Mormon Tickets
Durham Performing Arts Center | Durham, North Carolina
North Carolina, you’re in for the best kind of surprise as The Book of Mormon, one of Broadway’s wittiest, cleverest, and most comedic plays is arriving and performing in Durham on Thursday 10th April 2025 at the one and only Durham Performing Arts Center! Take part in a musical performance that makes you laugh and love classical theatre, full of unrestrained and humorous twists.
Produced from a collaboration of the creators of the famous comedy TV show South Park and the play Avenue Q, The Book of Mormon features two Mormon missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, as they try to convert local villagers in Uganda. In similar fashion to their previous creations, the musical takes the serious concept of religion and satirizes it through both script and music.
As Ben Brantley of The New York Times states, just like South Park, it is “also blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet on a blue streak. But trust me when I tell you that its heart is as pure as that of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show”.
Make the most out of your chance to be one of the lucky ones and get a seat to this stunning show, before they run out!
Welcome to Durham's most spacious and top-tier musical theatres, Durham Performing Arts Center is proud to host the Book of Mormon on April at Thursday 10th April 2025. Known for its world-class staging, interior design, and acoustics, Durham Performing Arts Center is already praised by both locals and foreigners in Durham as its greatest musical venue.
The musical runs at 2 hours and 30 minutes, the Book of Mormon was a surprising yet welcome addition to Broadway theatres when it debuted over 10 years ago, back in 2011 at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. The creative take on the Book of Mormon was a record-breaker. Within just 9 months of its debut it broke the weekly box office record 22 times!! By mid-2022, it had already earned more than $1 Billion Dollars around the world. Over the past decade, the musical amassed awards as well, ranging from Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, Olivier Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Helpmann awards among many other acclaims!
The Book of Mormon blends the themes of faith, culture shock, and classic theatre into its comedic musical. Its narrative features two very different Mormon missionaries, Kevin Price and Arnold Cunningham, its central characters, as they perform their two-year mission to convert the native villagers of a remote village in Uganda to Mormonism. It turns out to be more difficult than expected however, as they learn that the village faces more pressing matters such as poverty, famine, an HIV/AIDS epidemic, and even oppression from the local General. Thinking outside the box, it is Cunningham who is able to successfully preach to the villagers with assistance from the local leader’s daughter, Nabulungi, and an unusual talent for lying. Though not as well versed on the Mormon doctrine as his fellow Mormons, he invents stories that are a combination of fact and fiction, drawing information from science fiction and fantasy works such as Star Wars and Lord of the Rings that lead on the villagers more to convert. The two ways of Price and Cunningham clash, orthodox and unorthodox. Comedy ensues as they both try to strategize the best way to achieve the mission they set out for in the first place.
The Book of Mormon’s decade-long run continues in Durham. Tickets are for sale by clicking the link above.
