Post by deanna on Aug 31, 2011 8:13:23 GMT -7
The Department of Theatre and Dance invites you to a talk:
“The Cult of The Book of Mormon Musical”
Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones (BYU)
Friday - September 9 - 4pm
Center for the Arts, Room 1020
In her talk, Dr. Jones discusses how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long had a cult status in American religions. From its inception in upstate New York in the 1830s to its current “I am A Mormon” campaign, the Mormon church’s relationship with mainstream America has long been an effort to be recognized as a normative Christian religion. The opening of The Book of Mormon on Broadway has both complicated and facilitated these efforts. In addition, The Book of Mormon has become a cult hit in its own right as ticket sales have kept audiences to a small, but very loyal group. Framing the success of The Book of Mormon in a larger conversation about cults, cult hits, and cult classics sheds some light both on the musical and the religion that inspired it.
Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Brigham Young University. Her scholarship on religious performance in 19th-20th century America has been published in Theatre Journal, The State of the Art, and Theatre Topics. Her first book, Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama (Routledge 2009), was awarded the the prestigious Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association.
Please see the attached flyer.
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Brian Eugenio Herrera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre & Dance
theatre.unm.edu/
email: herrerab@unm.edu OR herrerab.unm@gmail.com
office: Room 121, Hartung Building (2414 Central SE)
phone: 505-277-0942
mail: Department of Theatre & Dance
MSC04 2570
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
“The Cult of The Book of Mormon Musical”
Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones (BYU)
Friday - September 9 - 4pm
Center for the Arts, Room 1020
In her talk, Dr. Jones discusses how The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has long had a cult status in American religions. From its inception in upstate New York in the 1830s to its current “I am A Mormon” campaign, the Mormon church’s relationship with mainstream America has long been an effort to be recognized as a normative Christian religion. The opening of The Book of Mormon on Broadway has both complicated and facilitated these efforts. In addition, The Book of Mormon has become a cult hit in its own right as ticket sales have kept audiences to a small, but very loyal group. Framing the success of The Book of Mormon in a larger conversation about cults, cult hits, and cult classics sheds some light both on the musical and the religion that inspired it.
Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Brigham Young University. Her scholarship on religious performance in 19th-20th century America has been published in Theatre Journal, The State of the Art, and Theatre Topics. Her first book, Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama (Routledge 2009), was awarded the the prestigious Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association.
Please see the attached flyer.
__________________________________________________________________
Brian Eugenio Herrera, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre & Dance
theatre.unm.edu/
email: herrerab@unm.edu OR herrerab.unm@gmail.com
office: Room 121, Hartung Building (2414 Central SE)
phone: 505-277-0942
mail: Department of Theatre & Dance
MSC04 2570
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001