Kyle Selig replaces Gavin Creel in The Book of Mormon

Kyle Selig replaces Olivier Award winner and Tony nominee Gavin Creel as Elder Price in the Broadway company of the 2011 Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon from tomorrow, 5 January 2016. Mr Creel leaves the production to begin rehearsals for the upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company production of She Loves Me at Broadway's Studio 54 from 19 February 2016. Mr Selig will continue in the role of Elder Price through to 21 February 2016.

The principal cast for The Book of Mormon currently stars Kyle Selig (Elder Price), Christopher John O'Neill (Elder Cunningham), Nikki Renee Daniels (Nabulungi), Grey Henson (Elder McKinley), and Daniel Breaker (Mafala).

The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on 24 March 2011, following previews from 24 February, and is currently booking through to 4 September 2016.

The Book of Mormon features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of Comedy Central's landmark animated series, 'South Park.' Tony Award-winner Lopez is composer and co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy, 'Avenue Q.'

The show opened to excellent reviews: Bowls you over (NewYorkTheatreGuide.com); Pleasure-giving musical (NY Times); Blissfully original, irreverent, outspoken and hilarious (NY Daily News); A hit (NY Post); Hysterically funny and tunefully irresistible (NY1).

Synopsis: The Book of Mormon follows "a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get."

The musical won nine 2011 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and has been a box office hit with a regular house attendence of 103%.

The show is choreographed by Casey Nicholaw and directed by Nicholaw and Trey Parker - joint winners of the 2011 Tony Award for best direction of a musical.

The Book of Mormon's creative team features set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design by Brian Ronan. Orchestrations are by Larry Hochman. Music supervision is by Stephen Oremus.

Parker and Stone made their Broadway musical writing debut with The Book of Mormon. Parker and Stone have won four Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award for 'South Park,' the team's controversial, critically acclaimed series, which airs on Comedy Central.

- by Tom Millward