Went to see The Book of Mormon last night at the Liverpool Empire Theatre with Holly. It was a very last minute thing as we only booked tickets on Thursday afternoon - Holly was going to go on her own. We bought 2 single tickets on the same row either side of a pair. We were hoping the couple in between us would be nice and would swap so they were closer to the centre and we could be next to each other.
I've heard of the play but had no idea what it was about. Brandon Flowers (front man of The Killers) is a Mormon but again don't know anything about the religion. My cousin Tracy went to see it last weekend so asked her what it was about and that was about as much research as I'd done into it. Holly said she googled but still had no idea. We knew it was comedy musical so hoped for the best. We only paid £26 for our tickets so even if it wasn't good we didn't spend loads.
We got tickets on the left of the stage near the far end stalls. The opposite side of where me and Danielle sat when we saw SIX at Easter. We were row F so was pretty close to the stage. The couple that were the pair between us turned out to be nice people and swapped with us. At first they seemed a bit hesitant but we said they would be closer to the centre and they swapped so that worked well for us. They were good seats just couldn't really see what was happening to the left as it was restricted view and there was stuff happening there like they were looking that way at one point but we couldn't see what they were looking at.
It was really funny and we enjoyed it! Don't know how true to real life about Mormons it is. It's about 2 Mormons that have finished their missionary training and are sent out to village in Uganda to preach about their faith. The people in the village aren't interested as they have their own issues to deal with like HIV/AIDS, famine, female genital mutilation and a war lord.
The people a couple of rows behind us were proper howling and snorting laughing but then also laughing at bits that weren't even that funny. The woman next to me after the interval found everything hilarious but we thought the first half was better. I would say if you're easily offended it definitely isn't for you as the jokes are borderline racist and a lot of sexual references. I do recommend if you want a good laugh and you definitely don't need to know anything about it before because all Tracy described to me was "Just basically about another part of the bible and getting people to believe. Just a bit of a pisstake" which sums it up very well. It's on in Liverpool till next Saturday 13th August then it continues its tour around the UK. There's still quite a few seats left and you could get lucky like us and manage to sit next to each other if you get single seats on the same row.
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