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Eugene O'Neill Theatre

  • Theater
  • Midtown West
  • price 4 of 4
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
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Time Out says

Built in 1925 and christened the Forrest Theatre after great American thespian Edwin Forrest, this 1,030-seat playhouse has gone through many changes over the decades. It became the Coronet Theatre in 1945. Then in 1959, following a hit revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Great God Brown, it got its present name. Playwright Neil Simon bought the building in the late ’60s and sold it to Jujamcyn in 1982. In 1999 the O’Neill was home to the acclaimed 50th-anniversary production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
Since 2011 it has housed The Book of Mormon.

Details

Address:
230 W 49th St
New York
Cross street:
between Broadway and Eighth Ave
Transport:
Subway: C, E to 50th St; N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Sq; N, R to 49th St
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The Book of Mormon

  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • Musicals
  • Open run

If theater is your religion and the Broadway musical your sect, you've been woefully faith-challenged of late. Venturesome, boundary-pushing works such as Spring Awakening, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Next to Normal closed too soon. American Idiot was shamefully ignored at the Tonys and will be gone in three weeks. Meanwhile, that airborne infection Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark dominates headlines and rakes in millions, without even opening. Celebrities and corporate brands sell poor material, innovation gets shown the door, and crap floats to the top. It's enough to turn you heretic, to sing along with The Book of Mormon's Ugandan villagers: "Fuck you God in the ass, mouth and cunt-a, fuck you in the eye." Such deeply penetrating lyrics offer a smidgen of the manifold scato-theological joys to be had at this viciously hilarious treat crafted by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, of South Park fame, and composer-lyricist Robert Lopez, who cowrote Avenue Q. As you laugh your head off at perky Latter-day Saints tap-dancing while fiercely repressing gay tendencies deep in the African bush, you will be transported back ten years, when The Producers and Urinetown resurrected American musical comedy, imbuing time-tested conventions with metatheatrical irreverence and a healthy dose of bad-taste humor. Brimming with cheerful obscenity, sharp satire and catchy tunes, The Book of Mormon is a sick mystic revelation, the most exuberantly entertaining Broadway musical in years. The high q

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