The Book of Mormon

Financial Times“Sells its bare-faced cheek with enormous technical and performance flair...” Is neither as perfect nor as audacious as it pretends, but it puts over the package so well that we either do not notice or do not mind...

The Observer“The most cryingly good night out to have come along for years...” One of its many surprises is that it sent an enraptured, ecstatic audience home with an odd sense of having come, somehow, to really like Mormons. The first surprise is how punchingly good the music is...

Time Out“It is, above all, very funny...” From Casey Nicholaw's kitsch choreography to the sheer detail of a book that hops with élan from Biblical Egypt to eighteenth-century America to a sort of vaginal version of hell, this is a tremendous show...

The Arts Desk“It’s difficult to disagree with a show that leaves you feeling so good...” If there’s anything really startling about the show, ultimately it is its generosity and sweetness, and the ability of the production by Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker... to switch in a twinkling between ribald hilarity and touching sentiment...

The Stage“A blast of often goofy, sometimes glorious satirical musical comic delight.” The production is every bit as good as the one I saw on Broadway when the show first opened there almost exactly two years ago, proving that we’re now equal in every way to New York in delivering a production of flair and flourish...

Whatsonstage.com“There is little here to genuinely shock, and laughs by the bucketload...” how refreshing it is to see a show on a West End stage that resonates so widely across the cultural spectrum - on the night I saw it..., the excitement and enthusiasm in the stalls was of a kind I've not experienced before...

Guardian“It does have its pleasures...” While the show has a few sardonic things to say about our capacity for credulity, the biggest myth of all is that it's somehow a landmark American musical...

Evening Standard“Parker and Stone have created something spirited and refreshing...” It manages the unlikely trick of rolling offensiveness and morality into a single package. For all its cartoonish devilry, it ends up feeling benign, joyous and even cuddly...

The Independent“I absolutely loved it – albeit slightly guiltily...” Is the show touristic? Does it merely flirt with blasphemy? Oh, you bet. But there is also something very winning about its spirit. True, it does not take any really daring risks...

The Telegraph“The songs, though mostly pastiche, have undoubted flair...” While acknowledging that it is often damnably clever and sharp, I find it hard to warm to the show.For a start, mocking the Mormons and their bizarre belief system is the softest of targets...