{"id":10443,"date":"2023-09-10T21:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T04:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/?p=10443"},"modified":"2023-10-03T22:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T05:23:35","slug":"the-book-of-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/the-book-of-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Mormon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Friday, September 15th &#8211; Sunday, September 17th<\/h3>\n<p><i><b>The Book of Mormon<\/b><\/i> is a musical comedy with music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone. The story follows two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as they attempt to preach the faith to the inhabitants of a remote Ugandan village. The earnest young men are challenged by the lack of interest from the locals, who are distracted by more pressing issues such as HIV\/AIDS, famine, female genital mutilation, child molestation, and oppression by the local warlord.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Book of Mormon<\/i> has grossed over $700 million, making it one of the most successful musicals of all time.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> As of December 22, 2022, it is the 13th longest-running Broadway show. <em>-via wiki<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Centennial Hall | <span class=\"tribe-address\"><span class=\"tribe-street-address\">1020 E. University Blvd<\/span>&nbsp; | <a href=\"https:\/\/broadwayintucson.com\/event\/the-book-of-mormon\/\">Tickets and showtimes<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k4-eWO1xu3I?si=SczpXOIjLhme93v5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, September 15th &#8211; Sunday, September 17th The Book of Mormon is a musical comedy with music, lyrics, and book by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone. The story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[173,18],"tags":[38,295],"class_list":["post-10443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musical","category-theatre","tag-featured","tag-musical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/book-of-mormon.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Hqfr-2Ir","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10445,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions\/10445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucsonmonthly.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}