THE BOOK OF MORMON, the new Broadway musical nominated for 14 Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, will launch its national tour in December 2012 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA). A complete tour schedule will be announced in the coming weeks.

“We can’t tell you how much it means to us to open the tour in the state in which we grew up. It’s a homecoming,” said “South Park” creator Trey Parker. “We can’t wait to play the show across America and the fact that we’re getting the chance to start where we grew up is an incredible bonus and very humbling.”

“I am honored that Matt, Trey and the entire team have given Denver the nod to open their national tour at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts,” said Randy Weeks, President of the DCPA. “The Book of Mormon has reinvented Broadway. It’s fantastic that the folks in Colorado will have the first opportunity to see the tour.”

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