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Record Sales For ‘Book Of Mormon’ London Bow

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Saturday March 23, 2013 @ 9:49am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Book Of Mormon, London, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez, Ticket Sale Record, Trey Parker
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: The producers of The Book Of Mormon opened the Tony winning hit Thursday night at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre. They’ve announced that the show set a record for the biggest single day of sales in West End and Broadway history on the day following. Yesterday, between 10:00 AM and Midnight, the box office did £2,107,972, or $3,210,019 in ticket sales. Some 150,000 additional tickets have been made available and the show is now booking until January 11, 2014.

Cameron Mackintosh, who owns the theater and has had his share of big stage hits said: “After a phenomenal opening night I am delighted to see a phenomenal record-breaking post opening box office of over £2m. The Mormons have truly delivered a Heavenly hit!”

The Book Of Mormon, with book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, is produced in London by Anne Garefino, Scott Rudin, Important Musicals and Sonia Friedman Productions. This is the latest of a swarm of broken records for the musical, which on Broadway has bested the Eugene O’Neill Theatre’s house record 44 times. The National Tour has continually broken house records across the country since opening in Denver in the summer of 2012, and the Chicago production holds the house record at the Bank of America Theatre. The musical, which won nine Tony Awards and a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album, shows how lucrative an original stage hit can be. The musical shows no sign of slowing, with four Book Of Mormon companies operating thus far, and the inevitable movie that will come sometime down the line.

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‘Book Of Mormon’ Co-Creator Robert Lopez Signs Script Deal With ABC Studios

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 22, 2012 @ 10:13am PSTTags: ABC Studios, Bobby Lopez, Robert Lopez, The Book of Mormon
Nellie Andreeva

Robert Lopez, co-creator of hit Tony-winning musicals The Book Of Mormon and Avenue Q, is looking to add a co-creator of a TV series title to his resume. Lopez and his brother Billy Lopez haves signed a blind script … Read More »

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‘The Book Of Mormon’ Now In The Black

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 11:59am PSTTags: Broadway, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez, The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker
Mike Fleming

While there is suspicion that the year-old Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark will have to run for decades to recoup its $75 million budget despite its glowing press, the same cannot be said of the Tony-winning The Book Of Mormon. … Read More »

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