The Broadway production of The Book of Mormon—winner of nine
2011 Tony Awards, including Best Musical—celebrates its 5,000th
performance at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre November 4 at 7 PM.
The hit production is the longest-running show in the 99-year history
of the O'Neill (a distinction the production has carried since 2019) as
well as the 12th longest-running Broadway show of all time.
The Book of Mormon
opened on Broadway March 24, 2011, subsequently winning the Grammy for
Best Musical Theatre
Album. The Broadway production also won five Drama Desk Awards,
including Best Musical; the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best
Musical; the Drama League Award for Best Musical; and four Outer Critics
Circle Awards, including Best Musical.
The Book of Mormon features
a book, music, and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone.
The production is choreographed by Casey Nicholaw and is directed by
Nicholaw and Parker.
The musical also has set design by Scott
Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt,
sound design by Brian Ronan, hair design by Josh Marquette,
orchestrations by Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus, music supervision
and vocal arrangements by Oremus, dance music arrangements by Glen
Kelly, musical direction by Justin Mendoza, and casting by Carrie
Gardner.
The West End production opened in February 2013, winning four Olivier
Awards, including Best New Musical. The musical is also on tour in the
U.K. and opens in Sydney in 2025.
Look back at the Broadway opening night in the gallery below:
The Fred Ebb Award recognizes excellence in musical theatre songwriting, by a songwriter or songwriting team that has not yet achieved significant commercial success.