SAW THE BOOK OF MORMON ON TOUR LAST NIGHT IN PHILLY!!!
little debrief/review post 😛
Bought these tickets for $30 right after i saw it on west end, was originally going to take my brother but he didn’t want to go so i brought my friend lol (thanks anna i hope you had a good time 😋)
bought the enamel pin set! its now on my updated TBOM/matt stone trey parker shrine lol. I wanted to buy a shirt for when I go in January but they were all so expensive!! does anyone have any like shirts on etsy or redbubble recommendations?
Anyway rest of post below cut! Some photos and videos as always!
- The show was still fantastic as always but I definitely did not have as good a time as i did on west end- my seats were allllll the way back
I kinda felt like i was dreaming through the show, i had to squint to see and the seats were so small and everyone around me smelled like alcohol 😭
- The highlight of the show was absolutely Diego Enrico as elder cunningham. He was so good and so so so fun to watch and he is so cute lol
- i felt like the only characters I could connect to were cunningham, nabulungi, and the doctor/gotswana for some reason?? like they were the only characters that i was really really excited to watch
I know price is the leading man but i feel like I barely saw him- idk if I just was zoning out when he was on stage, he was still amazing, I just felt like this watch around he was more of an accessory to cunningham and his arc than his own independent thing. His most memorable moment in the show for me was end of i believe and his part in I am Africa (and anna’s reaction to that was priceless her mouth was wide open 😭) also the intro to and all of smhd
Also- mckinley- he is usually like one of if not my favorite character and i BARELY got to see him I was trying so hard to pay attention and stay invested but like i was not getting anything i could barely see him 😭 for some reason he did not feel like a main character at all in this performance and I have no idea why (maybe because i was so far away?) i was so sad about it lol- craig was wonderful though and his voice is heavenly and it was not his performance at all
- in the mission hut, instead of the couch, there was just a bunch of old office chairs?? did they change the set or is it just for the touring productions?
- the little golden moroni at the top of the stage didn’t move :(
- on occasion they had the lights go out into the audience and it was really cool/pretty
- fun overhead spotlights!! people who were doing handheld face on spotlights sometimes forgot to turn them on though so sometimes people would just be like… half in the dark
- being so high up i got to see a lot of the blocking and formation I hadn’t seen before, that was really cool. The dances looked great from so up high!! There were even parts of the show I didn’t even know there was dancing I finally got to see so that was cool
- the villagers were the other highlight of this. They were so fun to watch and so funny and I loved them so much. JSAM I think was my favorite part of the show it was so great
- sam (elder price) was like just a tiny tiny bit flat at some parts on occasion? I feel bad for saying this lol. he sounded fantastic most of the time though! His acting and dancing were flawless though, I loved watching him in AAP and SMHD specifically
- there was no mcpriceley in this like AT ALL and I missed the mcpriceley almost kiss AGAIN erghhhh idk how it keeps happening 😭
they were leaning into pricingham a lot and at the end price picked him up and like twirled him around it was really cute lol
- felt like the arnaba chemistry was more platonic than romantic but idk 🤷♀️🤷♀️
OKOK stage door!!
This was the best part of this whole thing everyone was so nice and I had so much fun
I gave out the tbom themed friendship bracelets I made and they all really liked them 😋😋
they were like all surprised to get them too lol 😭
Me and my BESTIE 💜 diego ENRICO 💜
and me and pookie sam mclellan 😭 I accidentally got sharpie on his hand and flannel I felt so bad
i keep embarrassing myself in front of elder mckinelys bc i gave my orlando bracelet to craig (i was giving them out at random and at that point i wasn’t sure if sam was coming out) and i was like “look it has the fancy charms!” this man just blank stares at me and is like “😀 wow!! 😀 ill take this to orlando with me when we go there in a few weeks! 😀” and then i was like “cool!! some of my friends are going to see you guys in orlando!” and he continues to stare blankly and smile at me until i asked him for a picture. i was dying. pj when i come to new york i promise i will try to have a normal conversation with you 🩷
and ill reblog this with some more pics bc i reached the limit lol
stage dooring was my favorite part, and i am SOOOOO excited for January!!! 😋😋
just a suggestion but… have you ever considered drawing the anastasia national tour cast? as in veronica stern and willem butler as dimya? :)
good news anon!! i have painted the 2nt cast a couple times, just haven't shared them on here, only on instagram. i'll drop them here for you :)
veronica and willem, painted in the week before i got to see this production again last october <33
(fun fact! willem asked me for a print and a sticker of this one, now the sticker is on his water bottle <33 top tier level of fame for me i guess lol)
and idk if i posted this one on here but kyla stone and sam mclellan, painted after seeing them back in november 2021 early in this production's run <33
