518: Clark Johnsen - From BYU to Broadway's Book of Mormon Musical Part 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2015

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this hilarious and touching episode of Mormon Stories, John Dehlin interviews Clark Johnson, an original cast member in the hit Broadway musical, The Book of Mormon.

In part one, Clark shares his experience as a young gay Mormon coming from a conservative LDS background, his mission to Mexico, and how he and his family came to terms with his decision to leave the church.

In part two, Clark recounts the events and his favorite memories leading him to join The Book of Mormon cast; from the dance department at BYU to the Broadway stage. He goes on to share scene by scene and song by song, themes from the musical that relate to his life and experience with the world.

Warning - Because of the language contained in the Book of Mormon Musical, listener discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Because of the language contained in the Book of Mormon musical, this episode does contain some swearing.
0:05.6	And being like, can I really get a little more tea on f***ing tough?
0:10.4	We just earned our explicit rating.
0:12.1	I thank you.
0:13.7	Consequently, listener discretion is advised.
0:16.5	Nonetheless, don't be fooled.
0:18.1	This interview with Clark Johnson is totally awesome.
0:24.7	To check out the video version of this episode, go to youtube.com slash Mormon stories.
0:29.2	To keep these podcasts alive, please consider a financial contribution today at MormonStories.org.
0:34.4	Thanks for listening.
0:44.2	Hello and welcome to a special edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:48.2	I'm your host John DeLin.
0:50.0	It is December 28, 2014.
0:53.5	We are in Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:56.8	Probably Sandy area.
0:59.4	And we're very excited to have a live audience of about 120 awesome people.
1:11.6	And we're here tonight to spend an evening with Clark Johnson.
1:16.3	Clark is a very talented and interesting individual.
1:20.9	And he's probably best known for being the original cast of the Broadway musical,
1:27.2	the Book of Mormon musical.
1:28.8	So we're here to talk a little bit about Clark's early years, how he kind of got into Broadway.
1:35.7	Then we hope to dig deep on the musical itself.
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