EXTRA PREVIEW PERFORMANCE ADDED ON 5 JUNE 2019
WITH 1500 SEATS AT £15
LOTTERY TICKET POLICY ANNOUNCED WITH 15 TICKETS FOR £15 AT EVERY PERFORMANCE
An additional preview is announced today for the upcoming Manchester season of The Book of Mormon, on Wednesday 5 June at 7:30pm at the Palace Theatre. This will be the first chance for fans to see the much-anticipated Broadway smash hit.
1500 tickets for the first Manchester preview will cost only £15 and go on sale at 10am on Thursday 30 Mayonly at the Palace Theatre Box Office.
Tickets for this preview performance are only available in person via the Palace Theatre Box Office which will open at 10am on Thursday 30 May 2019. Up to two tickets may be purchased per customer on a strictly ‘first come-first served’ basis with coffee available at the Palace Theatre for those who get there early. Valid ID must be shown during the transaction (this ID will be used for identification on the day of the performance). All tickets are subject to availability and cannot be re-sold.
The Book of Mormon also announces details of a ticket lottery from 6 June, for which 15 tickets will be sold at £15 by ballot before each performance at the Palace Theatre, Manchester.
Entries will only be accepted in person, at the Box Office beginning two and a half hours prior to each performance. Two hours before curtain, names will be drawn at random for a limited number of tickets priced at £15 each.
“The best musical of this century.”
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
The Tony®, Olivier® and Grammy® award-winning show, has extended performances at the Palace Theatre, Manchester through to Saturday 10 August via www.thebookofmormonmusical.com and at the Palace Theatre Box Office.
The cast of The Book of Mormonin Manchester will be led by Kevin Clay as Elder Price and Conner Peirson as Elder Cunningham, recreating their roles from the Broadway and US touring productions. They are joined by Nicole-Lily Baisden as Nabulungi, Will Hawksworth as Elder McKinley, Ewen Cummins as Mafala Hatimbi, Johnathan Tweedie as Joseph Smith and Thomas Vernal as the General.
The company will include Jed Berry, David Brewis, Melissa Brown-Taylor, Chinasa, Sanchia Amber Clarke, Tre Copeland-Williams, George Crawford, Jordan Lee Davies, Jemal Felix, Patrick George, Isaac Hesketh, M-Jae Cleopatra Isaac, Evan James, Alex James-Hatton, Nicole Louise, Fergal McGoff, Jesus Reyes Ortiz, Lawrence Rowe, Lukin Simmonds, Chomba S Taulo, Brad Veitch, Tommy Wade-Smith, Sharon Wattis and Jacob Yarlett.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the creators of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning television show, South Park, now in its twenty-second season, and the feature films South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Team America: World Police.
Robert Lopez co-created the Broadway musical Avenue Q and co-wrote the songs for Disney’s Frozen and Coco. He is one of only fifteen artists to win all four major entertainment awards – Emmy®, Grammy®, Oscar® and Tony® Awards.
The Book of Mormon follows a pair of Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that’s a long way from their home in Salt Lake City.
Since making its world premiere in March 2011 at New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre, where it won nine Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, The Book of Mormon has been performed on three continents and won over thirty international awards. The musical has smashed long-standing box office records in New York, London, Melbourne, Sydney and cities across the U.S.
The London production opened in February 2013, winning four Olivier Awards® including Best New Musical, and breaking the record for the highest single day of sales in West End history. It has sold out every one of its 2605 performances to date at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
Book, Music and Lyrics are by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Directed by Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon has choreography by Casey Nicholaw, set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt, sound design by Brian Ronan, orchestrations by Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus and music supervision and vocal arrangements by Stephen Oremus.
The Book of Mormon is produced by Anne Garefino, Scott Rudin, Important Musicals and Sonia Friedman Productions.
Kevin Clay and Conner Peirson are appearing with the support of UK Equity, incorporating the Variety Artistes’ Federation, pursuant to an exchange programme between American Equity and UK Equity.
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