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- 0:00Speaker 1: I am a little tired. Why? Well, I had a
- 0:02Speaker 1: late night.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Why? You know, when you get to this stage of
- 0:04Speaker 2: your life and you get up this early in the morning,
- 0:06Speaker 2: you've got to keep it for late in the week.
- 0:08Speaker 2: That's why they brought in the matinee. But the reason
- 0:12Speaker 2: I'm a little tired this morning and it's worth every
- 0:16Speaker 2: bit of it is because I was at this last night.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Yay! The Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon Did
- 0:55Speaker 1: you spot many Mormons in the crowd? Not really.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Let me just tell you up front, if you don't
- 1:02Speaker 2: like a bit of wrong town.
- 1:04Speaker 1: And I love Wrong Town. If you don't like a
- 1:07Speaker 1: bit of.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Wrong Town, not remotely Wrong Town, this is not the
- 1:10Speaker 2: show for you. However, and I'll follow that by saying
- 1:14Speaker 2: it is, of course, written by the South Park boys. Oh,
- 1:17Speaker 2: the mayors of Wrong Town.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
- 1:20Speaker 2: So, you know, if you've ever been even the tiniest
- 1:23Speaker 2: bit offended by South Park, This show is not for you.
- 1:26Speaker 2: But if you love a laugh and you love a
- 1:29Speaker 2: good stage show and you love a good night out,
- 1:32Speaker 2: this show is 100% for you. The Book of Mormon,
- 1:34Speaker 2: this is the second time the Book of Mormon has
- 1:37Speaker 2: been to Perth.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:38Speaker 2: And I went the first time and just loved every
- 1:42Speaker 2: minute of it. But I dare say this, no offence
- 1:46Speaker 2: to the first production, but this one's even better.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Yeah. This is so good.
- 1:51Speaker 2: The cast is, just a quick premise of the show,
- 1:54Speaker 2: of course, it's the the telling of, you know, the
- 1:58Speaker 2: Mormon religion and how they.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Go on their mission.
- 2:02Speaker 2: You know, the Mormons reach a certain age, they go
- 2:04Speaker 2: on their mission, they always get coupled up with someone,
- 2:08Speaker 2: you know, they hope to go somewhere really exciting. And
- 2:13Speaker 2: when this lot get coupled up, you know, they're going
- 2:15Speaker 2: to Norway, they're going to France, they're going to Japan,
- 2:19Speaker 2: but our Mormons are going to Uganda.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Yes.
- 2:22Speaker 2: To try to baptise and win over to the Mormon religion,
- 2:28Speaker 2: the Ugandans. So this cast is led by Sean Johnston
- 2:32Speaker 2: as Elder Price and Nick Cox as Elder Cunningham.
- 2:34Speaker 1: They are absolutely amazing. Fantastic.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Huge shout out to Paris Lavecki, who's Nabilangi, if you
- 2:41Speaker 2: know the story, you know who she is.
- 2:44Speaker 1: She is magnificent.
- 2:46Speaker 2: But the whole ensemble, all the other Mormon elders are incredible.
- 2:51Speaker 2: My favourite, you'll know if you've seen the show, my
- 2:55Speaker 2: favourite bit is turn it off like a light switch.
- 3:00Speaker 2: And the guy who does turn it off like a
- 3:03Speaker 2: light switch is It is just the best performance of
- 3:07Speaker 2: that I've ever seen. I don't know your name because
- 3:10Speaker 2: I didn't buy a program because I'm cheap.
- 3:12Speaker 1: I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry. Tickets were free. But
- 3:16Speaker 1: you were fantastic.
- 3:19Speaker 2: And also, big shout out to the guy with maggots
- 3:22Speaker 2: in his scrotum.
- 3:24Speaker 1: It's too early for this.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Because Magazine Must Grow To Me is one of the
- 3:30Speaker 2: great songs and he was a joy to behold and
- 3:34Speaker 2: I hope you've got an ointment for that.
- 3:39Speaker 1: Now, five stars, all the thumbs up.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Go see The Book of Mormon unless you're easily offended
- 3:49Speaker 2: and you don't like Wrong Town.
- 3:50Speaker 1: But otherwise, you're going.
- 3:52Speaker 2: To absolutely love it.
- 3:54Speaker 1: It's at crowntheatre.com. It's on until December.
- 3:57Speaker 2: It's on until December. Run, don't walk, all of that.
- 4:02Speaker 2: Run like you've got maggots in your scrotum.
- 4:05Speaker 1: If I go and see, am I going to hell? Nah.