{"id":691367,"date":"2026-06-08T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691367\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:50:09","slug":"book-of-mormon-15th-anniversary-performance-at-2026-tonys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691367\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Book of Mormon\u2019 15th Anniversary Performance at 2026 Tonys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOrlando! It was a night of reunions on Sunday at the 2026 Tony Awards<\/a>, including for The Book of Mormon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the 79th annual Tony Awards<\/a> ceremony, the original cast of The Book of Mormon \u2014 Josh Gad<\/a>, Andrew Rannells<\/a> and Rory O\u2019Malley \u2014 reunited to celebrate their 15th anniversary. <\/p>\n

\n\tIntroduced by the show\u2019s creators Trey Parker, Matt Stone (who also created South Park) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q co-creator), the stars seamlessly stepped back into their roles to perform \u201cMan Up,\u201d the closing number to act one. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut the reunion doesn\u2019t stop there. Gad, Rannells, O\u2019Malley, Parker, Lopez, Stone and Nikki M. James are set to return for eight performances of the show from June 9 to 14.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe satirical musical starred Rannells and Gad as Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent to a remote Ugandan village to preach their faith, while spotlighting their contrasting worldviews. The pair have also co-starred in Gutenberg! The Musical! on Broadway<\/a> from 2023 to 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Book of Mormon won nine Tony Awards<\/a> in 2011, including best musical. Now, the show stars Kevin Clay as Elder Price and Diego Enrico as Elder Cunningham, with Sydney Quildon as Nabulungi, Charlie Franklin as Elder McKinley and Jacques C. Smith as Mafala Hatimbi.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe production also made headlines in May after the Eugene O\u2019Neill Theatre caught fire on May 4, forcing a few weeks\u2019 closure before resuming on May 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditional performances on Sunday night include The Lost Boys,\u00a0Schmigadoon!,\u00a0Titan\u00edque,\u00a0Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),\u00a0Cats: The Jellicle Ball<\/a>,\u00a0Ragtime\u00a0and\u00a0Richard O\u2019Brien\u2019s\u00a0The Rocky Horror Show, while anniversary performances came from Chicago<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0A Chorus Line.<\/p>\n

\n\tFind the full list of Tony Award winners here<\/a> and see all of the stars who walked the red carpet here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando! It was a night of reunions on Sunday at the 2026 Tony Awards, including for The Book…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[22099,10546,21540,236,88,12876,299991,12362,144710,270839,270552,299821],"class_list":["post-691367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andrew-rannells","tag-awards","tag-broadway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-josh-gad","tag-the-book-of-mormon","tag-theater","tag-tony-awards","tag-tony-awards-2026","tag-tonys","tag-tonys-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}