The short answer is: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez. You probably know Parker and Stone as the guys who gave us South Park—the crudely animated, perpetually offensive show about four kids in Colorado. Lopez, meanwhile, is the musical genius who co-wrote Avenue Q and later Frozen’s “Let It Go.”
Imagine those three sitting in a room, thinking: “What if we took everything sacred about organized religion and wrapped it in a sparkly, tap-dancing musical?” That’s exactly what they did. The result was a show that somehow gets away with singing about “Spooky Mormon Hell Dreams” while also making you cry over a young missionary’s crisis of faith. Brilliant, right?
How Did They Even Get Together?
It all started because Parker and Stone were huge fans of Avenue Q. They reached out to Lopez after a performance, and the three discovered a shared love for pushing every boundary in the most joyful way possible. Over seven years of writing, they visited Salt Lake City, interviewed missionaries, and studied the Church’s history until they could quote it better than a prophet.
But here’s the secret: they didn’t make fun of belief itself. They made fun of certainty—the kind that ignores doubt, fear, and human messiness. The play’s message is actually uplifting: faith is powerful, but kindness is even more so. (Yes, you read that right. A show called The Book of Mormon is secretly a love letter to being a good person.)
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