Name: The Book of Mormon: Parker & Stone | 60 Minutes Archive
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If you came to New York this summer to see a Broadway play or a musical, chances are the one show you couldn't get tickets for was The Book of Mormon.

And if you want to come and see it next summer, you would be well advised to book your reservations now.

The new musical is from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, a show that changed the face of cable TV and is currently celebrating its 15th season.

Now they're working their magic on The Great White Way with another outrageous satire.

The South Park movie included the Oscar-nominated song "Blame Canada." Now they're the toast to Broadway.

This has been the scene outside the Eugene O'Neill Theater since March as people line up for The Book of Mormon, the hottest ticket on Broadway.

It has already grossed 32 million, is sold out for the next five months,

And that is music to the ears of its two creators, Trey Parker on the left and Matt Stone on the right.

Were you surprised it's been so successful?

We really we thought, you know, the songs were really good.

And but we didn't think it was going to be like this.

The musical is not just a satire of clean-cut earnest Mormons with unorthodox beliefs.

It's a playful send-up of all organized religion.

Did you know that Jesus lived here in the USA?

It's the story of two mismatched missionaries played by Andrew Reynolds and Josh Gadd, who were sent off to Africa to proselytize to pagans who have heard similar spiels before with no meaningful results.

In this part of Africa, we all have a saying.

Whenever something bad happens, we just throw our hands to the sky and say, "Has adiga ibo wai." Does it mean no worries for the rest of our days?

but soon we'll find out, is that the locals are flipping the finger at their Heavenly Father.

It is rude, crude, lewd, and blasphemous.

But it hasn't kept critics from proclaiming The Book of Mormon the best Broadway musical in a decade or stop it from racking up nine Tony Awards.

And for theater-going fans of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it's exactly what they wanted and expected from the creators of South Park.

A lot of the stuff the subject matter we've tackled, the way we found ourselves there is simply by trying to do something that no one else has touched.

And so we're just like, "Well, there's a reason why people haven't touched that." And we're like, "Oh, really?

Because we want to go do jokes that other people haven't done," you know?

They're barely 40 and have already been collaborating for 20 years.

They met in a film class at the University of Colorado and were partnered up to work on a project, quickly discovering that they shared a love of Monty Python and a subversive sense of humor.

I just remember that our senses of humor were just so similar that we would just really crack each other up.

And it got to the it got really annoying for everyone else in film school.

At ages 19 and 20, they raised $100,000 to make a movie about a Colorado prospector named Alfred Packer, who was forced to dine on his colleagues while snowbound in the mountains.

Cannibal, the musical, was rejected by the Sundance Film Festival, but

Parker and Stone win anyway and held guerrilla screenings in a hotel conference room.

I guess that's what you could call it, a release.

You might not want to pay more than a dollar for it,

They moved to Hollywood and spent three whole years as starving young artists until a studio executive gave them $1,200 and asked them to make a video Christmas card that he could send to his friends.

We went back to Colorado, and we spent three or four weeks cutting out construction paper.

And we did this little thing called the Spirit of Christmas.

The primitive five-minute cartoon featured an epic battle between Jesus and Santa Claus over control of the holiday, as witnessed by a group of young boys that would eventually become the South Park kids.

Help me put an end to him once and for all.

Stan, remember the choo-choo when you were three?

The video became an underground sensation.

Bootleg copies circulated all over the country and ended up in the VCR machines of entertainment executives in L.A., New York, and

I mean, it really was so viral before YouTube and all that.

All of a sudden, people wanted to meet us more.

And we got meetings everywhere all of a sudden.

And people were like, "OK, what do you want to do?" They eventually signed a contract to produce six episodes of a cartoon show based on the spirit of Christmas for a fledgling cable network called Comedy Central.

The show was named South Park after a real place in a remote stretch of Colorado where Trey Parker says strange things always seem to happen.

South Park was where everyone growing up, all the stories would come were like, "Oh, did you hear they found another UFO?

There's been all these cattle mutilations." And it was like, "Where?

South Park?" Their version of South Park would become a creative petri dish to examine and parody all the truly weird things going on in the adult world of America, as seen through the eyes of four elementary school boys who tried to make sense of it all.

And we were big fans of All in the Family.

And we were in the time of the early '90s, we were kind of sitting there going, "You know, a show like that couldn't be on the air right now.