The Book of Mormon Tickets

The Book of Mormon seat call, made fast

For The Book of Mormon, sit in the center orchestra from about row E to the middle of the house if you can, and take the front center mezzanine if you want nearly the same experience for less. Those two zones of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre deliver what this show depends on: clear lyrics and readable faces. The show has played this West 49th Street house since 2011, and as of October 2026 it has no announced closing date.

The reason is the material. This is a joke-dense musical where a lyric lands, a look follows, and the laugh comes a half second later. Scenery is not the draw. A seat that loses the actors' expressions loses a share of the comedy, and in a house of only 1,108 seats, very few seats are far enough away for that to happen.

• First choice: center orchestra, row E to mid-house.
• Value choice: the first several rows of the center mezzanine.
• Fallback: mid-mezzanine center, still close by Broadway standards.
• Skip if you can: deep rear orchestra and the far ends of any row.

Inside the Eugene O'Neill: two levels and some boxes

The O'Neill is among the smaller Broadway houses that host musicals. It has an orchestra (the ground-floor seating closest to the stage), a single balcony that Broadway calls the mezzanine, and a handful of boxes along the side walls. Herbert J. Krapp designed it. It opened in 1925 as the Forrest Theatre, became the Coronet in 1945, took the Eugene O'Neill name in 1959, and its interior is a designated New York City landmark.

The orchestra

Rows close to the stage put you near the performers but force you to look up and sweep side to side during the big ensemble numbers. Mid-house is the sweet spot. Toward the back, the mezzanine above hangs over the rows and can clip the top of the set, which is why rear orchestra often costs more than it is worth.

The mezzanine

Because the room is shallow, the front of the mezzanine sits closer to the stage than you might expect from the seat map. You see Casey Nicholaw's choreography as a full pattern, and you can still read faces. The rear rows work, but expressions shrink.

The boxes

Boxes feel private and close, yet the angle is sharp. You look across the stage rather than at it, which is a poor trade for a show built on reactions.

Rows that cost more than they deliver

• Rear orchestra under the overhang: the ceiling of the mezzanine can cut the upper part of the stage picture. For the same spend, the front mezzanine usually sees more.
• Extreme side seats on either level: you watch much of the show at an angle, and blocking at the near edge of the stage can disappear.
• The very first rows: vivid and close, but you spend the dance numbers turning your head.
• Back rows of the mezzanine: perfectly usable, though the faces that carry the jokes become small.

None of these are disasters in a house this compact. They are simply the seats where the price and the payoff stop matching.

Before you buy: tone, age rule and running time

As of October 2026, the production lists a running time of about 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one 15-minute intermission. Children under 4 are not admitted, and the show carries an explicit-language advisory.

Take that advisory seriously. The show is profane from start to finish, including in the songs, and it jokes bluntly about religion, AIDS, war and sexual violence. It mocks religious belief, then closes on a surprisingly warm view of what faith can do for a community. The under-4 rule is a legal floor, not a guide to suitability. Most families treat this as a show for older teenagers and adults, and anyone buying for a group should make sure every guest knows what kind of evening it is.

Busy weeks, quiet nights and the lottery

After 15 years, demand for this show runs on a steady and predictable cycle. Most seats sold online are resale (tickets listed by other buyers), and prices rise and fall with the calendar.

• Peak periods: the stretch from Christmas to New Year's, spring break and summer.
• Weekend evenings: Friday and Saturday sell first, and good center seats in a small house can thin out weeks in advance.
• Best selection: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, and matinees outside holiday weeks.
• Special engagements: returning original cast members have drawn heavy demand for limited runs in the past.

The production also runs a digital lottery for a small number of reduced-price seats, worth entering if your dates are flexible. If a holiday-week date is fixed, buy early. Every Reserved Seat order is backed by a 100% guarantee. Lottery rules and the schedule are on the show's own website.

Two missionaries, one village and a record run

The story sends two young missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to a remote village in Uganda. Elder Price is polished and sure of himself. Elder Cunningham is awkward and prone to making things up. The villagers face famine, disease and a brutal warlord, and they have no use for the pair's pamphlets.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created South Park, wrote the book, music and lyrics with Robert Lopez. Nicholaw and Parker directed. Previews began on February 24, 2011, and the opening came on March 24, 2011, with Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad in the lead roles.

• Awards: 9 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Original Score; a Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album; Drama Desk honors; and the Olivier Award for Best New Musical in London.
• Box office: it earned back its 11.4 million dollar capitalization in nine months, and by December 2025 it had played more than 5,000 performances, ranking 10th among Broadway's longest runs, with worldwide grosses above 900 million dollars.
• Recent milestones: 15 years on Broadway in March 2026; a May 2026 fire in the building's upper backstage floors, including the electrical room, halted the show for about three weeks before it returned on May 27, 2026.

The church responded with humor of its own, placing Playbill ads that read "You've seen the play, now read the book."

Outside New York

Two Equity tours (companies under the Actors' Equity union contract) crossed North America between 2012 and 2020, and a non-Equity tour began in September 2022. The London production opened in the West End in March 2013. As of October 2026, the Broadway League's current-tours list does not include the show, so confirm before you plan around a touring date. It sits alongside other New York staples such as Hamilton, Wicked, MJ the Musical and Hadestown.

Sources

• Wikipedia – The Book of Mormon (musical)
• Wikipedia – Eugene O'Neill Theatre
• The Book of Mormon – Broadway site
• The Broadway League – Current shows
• The Broadway League – Current tours
• Playbill – Productions