The books the cast brandish in The Book of Mormon , the foul-mouthed, screamingly funny and universally offensive musical written by South Park’ s Trey Parker and Matt Stone with Frozen ’s Robert Lopez, are, in fact, real. As in, they are really copies of The Book of Mormon , the 1830 holy text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

“In rehearsals, there were the few moments where we’d be having a little bit of downtime, or the director would be working with somebody else. And I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’ll just flick through and read some parts of this book’,” says Sean Johnston, who plays leading man Elder Price in the current production of the show.

Sean Johnston (left) and Nick Cox star in The Book of Mormon. Credit: Eddie Jim

Life imitating art imitating life.

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