I have not yet had the opportunity to see “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway, mostly because I’m incapable of planning an evening of theater a year in advance. Which is what’s required if you don’t want to spend as much for a pair of tickets as you would for a family vacation at Disney.
But the other day on Youtube I was hunting around for the first fifteen minutes of the Tony awards (which I’d missed) and came across a video from the previous year’s Tonys of Andrew Rannells as the show’s “Elder Price” performing “I Believe.”
In that song, the conflicted Price musically recites a litany of his deeply held beliefs, all of them accurate reflections of Mormonism.
It generated many laughs from the tony Tony crowd, but what I found intriguing were the things that the audience did not laugh at. It prompted me to consider the thought process of audience members when faced with Elder Price’s belief system.
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