James Fenton
'The Book of Mormon'
Hearing that the same men who brought us *South Park* were mounting a musical to be called *The Book of Mormon*, we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre. How could the Mormon faith, with its wobbly stories of golden tablets dug up and then lost to view, its pseudo-archaeological racism, its prevarications over the practice of polygamy, its almost exact resemblance to a cult, stand up to all that gleeful juvenile ragging?
June 11, 2011