Toronto, Des Moines Added to BOOK OF MORMON Tour

THE BOOK OF MORMON, the new Broadway musical nominated for 14 Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical, will launch its national tour in December 2012. The premiere stop, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), has already sold out. 

THE BOOK OF MORMON features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of Comedy Central's landmark animated series, "South Park." Tony Award-winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy, Avenue Q. The world premiere musical is choreographed by five-time Tony Award-nominee Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python's Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) and is directed by Nicholaw and Parker.

THE BOOK OF MORMON, which follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get, has been nominated for 14 Tony Awards, including Best Musical; 12 Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical; 6 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Musical and the Drama League Award for Best Musical. On May 9th, THE BOOK OF MORMON won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical.

THE BOOK OF MORMON features set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design by Brian Ronan. Orchestrations are by Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus. Music direction and vocal arrangements are by Stephen Oremus.

The touring schedule is as follows: 

8/14-9/2/2012   DENVER Ellie Caulkins Opera House
9/4-11/25/2012  LOS ANGELES The Pantages 
December 2012  CHICAGO Bank of America Theatre 
1/24 - 2/3/2013  DES MOINES Civic Center of Greater Des Moines 
2/5 - 2/17/2013  MINNEAPOLIS Orpheum Theatre 
May/June 2013   TORONTO TBA 

For more information, visit www.bookofmormonbroadway.com.