http://defamer.com/5091224/south-park-creators-mormon-musical-to-light-up-broadway-with-magical-underwearFile this under “good timing”: just as the passage Proposition 8 ignited a gays vs. Mormons clash so intense that only David Archuleta can mediate a resolution, word has leaked about the next project from South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, a Broadway-bound show entitled Mormon Musical. The two have set openly gay Xanadu alum Cheyenne Jackson to star, and Jackson opened up to Pop Wrap about what to expect (besides, obviously, the angel Moroni slathered in gold body glitter):”It’s hilarious – very acerbic and biting. It offends everybody but does what ‘South Park’ does best, which is by the end it comes around and has something great to say,” Cheyenne told Pop Wrap.”I play the main missionary, Elder something,” he said, straining to recall the name of his character. But the biggest unknown still is who else will be joining the cast. When I asked Cheyenne which other actors would be co-starring, all he would say (through the world’s largest grin) is, “a lot of people – all amazing.” …The show starts rehearsals in December, so expect to see it on the Great White Way sometime in 2009!Finally, a way for gays to get inside Mormons that doesn’t involve three Sprite Zeros and some balled-up long underwear! At Defamer HQ, we’re especially excited for the original soundtrack; we’ve heard that even Sondheim can’t top the Joseph Smith love theme, “I Do, I Do, I Do (to You, and You, and You).” 
I can’t wait! This is one play I will definitely have to see. And thanks for the photograph. I’ve always wondered what holy underwear looked like. (I’ve seen plenty of holey underwear.) Mormons get on my nerves, and my home town has way too many of them. They have just about ruined the Boy Scouts around here. Very adamant about NO godless children.
One big cult!
How delicious! I bet the play gets sold out for a long run! Hope the writers include some reference to Prop 8 in it. Also hope it gets made into a movie, cuz I don’t see myself going to NYC to see it.
That is magic underwear!? I imagined lots of rainbows.
Yeah, that’s the Mormon magic underwear, there are more than one kind of female garments however. I wish the would show a close up of the secret markings covertly sewn into the shirt portions.(They only tell you what the secret markings mean you marry in the temple, so I don’t have a clue what they’re all about) Mormon’s suck! I hate what they did with prop h8.
G-String and Thong are a little bit more magical for me….
Methinks the male pants are padded.
It is still a cult.
I would LOVE to see this, but I guess I’ll have to wait for the movie.
Boy, living in Idaho is going to be fun when this thing hits the market.
Freaks, I tell ya’!
Speaking of mormons, the CA Supreme Court agrees to hear legal challenges to the passage of Prop 8:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage_lawsuits;_ylt=AiRoMMiWwk62xfNFUs.iceSs0NUE
Lets never allow one religious group to deny another group their Constitutional rights such as the mormons did to gays in CA.
As a refuge from Utah I have some info on the holy garments, it seems the slits in them are a modification of the secret handshakes of the Masons. Each slit represents an aspect of divinity you have or strive for. Revrence for the holy garb reaches such fervor that at least once a year a stry is published of a person who dies for lack of surgery because they will not remove the underware. I feel it also has to do with the mormon prudishness over the nude human form.
ga4ry:
I’m curious if you know anything about the letters secretly sewn in, or the ritualistic burning of the markings as the garment’s become too old and must be destroyed. just curious, because I don’t have a clue.
I agree Boise Jim – fellow Idahoan here.
Are Donny and Marie going to be considered for roles?
I highly doubt it, but it would be funny to have look-a-likes!
Where in Idaho are you?
cascadia, no, I have heard about the letters but no nothing about them, and yes hey burn the old garments