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If you came to New York this summer to see a Broadway play or a musical, chances are the one show you couldn't get tickets for was The Book of Mormon.

如果你這個夏天來到紐約，想看一齣百老匯的戲劇或音樂劇，很有可能你買不到票的那齣就是《摩門經》。

And if you want to come and see it next summer, you would be well advised to book your reservations now.

如果你想明年夏天來看，建議你現在就趕快預訂。

The new musical is from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, a show that changed the face of cable TV and is currently celebrating its 15th season.

這齣新音樂劇來自《南方公園》的創作者 Trey Parker 和 Matt Stone，他們的作品改變了有線電視的面貌，而且目前正在慶祝他們的第 15 季。

Now they're working their magic on The Great White Way with another outrageous satire.

現在他們正將他們的魔法施展在百老匯，又帶來一齣離經叛道的諷刺劇。

The South Park movie included the Oscar-nominated song "Blame Canada." Now they're the toast to Broadway.

《南方公園》電影裡包含了奧斯卡提名歌曲「Blame Canada」。現在他們可是百老匯的寵兒。

This has been the scene outside the Eugene O'Neill Theater since March as people line up for The Book of Mormon, the hottest ticket on Broadway.

自從三月以來，這就是尤金·奧尼爾劇院外面的景象，人們排隊等著看《摩門經》，這是百老匯最夯的票。

It has already grossed 32 million, is sold out for the next five months,

它已經創下 3200 萬的票房紀錄，接下來五個月的票都已售罄，

而且很可能未來幾年都會是這樣。

And that is music to the ears of its two creators, Trey Parker on the left and Matt Stone on the right.

這對他們的兩位創作者來說，簡直是天籟之音，左邊是 Trey Parker，右邊是 Matt Stone。

Were you surprised it's been so successful?

We really we thought, you know, the songs were really good.

我們真的覺得，你知道，這些歌真的很好聽。

And but we didn't think it was going to be like this.

The musical is not just a satire of clean-cut earnest Mormons with unorthodox beliefs.

這部音樂劇不只是一齣諷刺片，諷刺那些有著非傳統信仰的、乖巧認真的摩門教徒。

It's a playful send-up of all organized religion.

這是一齣對所有有組織的宗教的幽默諷刺。

Did you know that Jesus lived here in the USA?

It's the story of two mismatched missionaries played by Andrew Reynolds and Josh Gadd, who were sent off to Africa to proselytize to pagans who have heard similar spiels before with no meaningful results.

故事講述了由 Andrew Reynolds 和 Josh Gadd 飾演的兩位不搭調的傳教士，他們被派往非洲，向那些聽過類似說詞但沒有顯著成效的異教徒傳教。

In this part of Africa, we all have a saying.

在這非洲的某個地方，我們都有一句俗語。

Whenever something bad happens, we just throw our hands to the sky and say, "Has adiga ibo wai." Does it mean no worries for the rest of our days?

每當有壞事發生時，我們就舉起手向天說：「Has adiga ibo wai。」這是不是意味著我們未來的好日子都無憂無慮了？

而且我們有百分之八十的人都得了愛滋病。

but soon we'll find out, is that the locals are flipping the finger at their Heavenly Father.

但很快我們就會發現，當地人正在對他們的天父豎中指。

我的天啊，我說了大概十三次！

It is rude, crude, lewd, and blasphemous.

它粗俗、下流、淫穢又褻瀆神明。

But it hasn't kept critics from proclaiming The Book of Mormon the best Broadway musical in a decade or stop it from racking up nine Tony Awards.

但這並沒有阻止評論家們稱《摩門經》是十年來最棒的百老匯音樂劇，也沒有阻止它贏得九項東尼獎。

And for theater-going fans of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it's exactly what they wanted and expected from the creators of South Park.

對於 Trey Parker 和 Matt Stone 的戲迷來說，這正是他們對《南方公園》創作者所期待的。

A lot of the stuff the subject matter we've tackled, the way we found ourselves there is simply by trying to do something that no one else has touched.

我們處理的許多題材，之所以會接觸到，只是因為我們想做一些別人沒碰過的東西。

And so we're just like, "Well, there's a reason why people haven't touched that." And we're like, "Oh, really?

所以我們就想：「嗯，人們沒碰過那東西一定有原因。」然後我們就說：「喔，真的嗎？

Because we want to go do jokes that other people haven't done," you know?

因為我們想做別人沒做過的笑話，你知道嗎？

有沒有什麼界線是你們不會跨越的？

我不知道，嗯，我們還沒找到。

They're barely 40 and have already been collaborating for 20 years.

他們才剛滿 40 歲，就已經合作了 20 年。

They met in a film class at the University of Colorado and were partnered up to work on a project, quickly discovering that they shared a love of Monty Python and a subversive sense of humor.

他們在科羅拉多大學的電影課上認識，並被分到一起做一個專案，很快就發現他們都熱愛《蒙提·派森》和顛覆性的幽默感。

你們還記得是什麼吸引了彼此嗎？

I just remember that our senses of humor were just so similar that we would just really crack each other up.

我只記得我們的幽默感超合拍，常常逗得對方哈哈大笑。

And it got to the it got really annoying for everyone else in film school.

搞到電影系的其他人都覺得很煩。

At ages 19 and 20, they raised $100,000 to make a movie about a Colorado prospector named Alfred Packer, who was forced to dine on his colleagues while snowbound in the mountains.

在 19 歲和 20 歲的時候，他們籌集了 10 萬美元，拍了一部關於科羅拉多州一個名叫 Alfred Packer 的淘金客的電影，這位淘金客在被困雪山時，被迫吃掉他的同事。

Cannibal, the musical, was rejected by the Sundance Film Festival, but

這部音樂劇《Cannibal》被日舞影展拒絕了，但是

Parker and Stone win anyway and held guerrilla screenings in a hotel conference room.

Parker 和 Stone 還是贏了，並在飯店會議室舉辦了遊擊放映。

I guess that's what you could call it, a release.

我想那大概可以稱得上是上映了。

You might not want to pay more than a dollar for it,

你可能不想花超過一塊錢買它，

They moved to Hollywood and spent three whole years as starving young artists until a studio executive gave them $1,200 and asked them to make a video Christmas card that he could send to his friends.

他們搬到好萊塢，花了整整三年當窮困的年輕藝術家，直到一位製片主管給了他們 1,200 美元，請他們製作一張影片聖誕卡寄給他的朋友。

We went back to Colorado, and we spent three or four weeks cutting out construction paper.

我們回到科羅拉多，花了三四個星期剪紙板。

And we did this little thing called the Spirit of Christmas.

我們做了個小東西，叫做「聖誕精神」。

The primitive five-minute cartoon featured an epic battle between Jesus and Santa Claus over control of the holiday, as witnessed by a group of young boys that would eventually become the South Park kids.

這部原始的五分鐘卡通描繪了耶穌和聖誕老人為了掌控節日而展開的一場史詩般的戰鬥，一群後來成為《南方公園》小孩的年輕男孩目睹了這一切。

Help me put an end to him once and for all.

Stan, remember the choo-choo when you were three?

史丹，還記得你三歲時的火車嗎？

The video became an underground sensation.

Bootleg copies circulated all over the country and ended up in the VCR machines of entertainment executives in L.A., New York, and

盜版拷貝在全國各地流傳，最後落入了洛杉磯、紐約和

倫敦的娛樂公司高層的錄影機裡。

I mean, it really was so viral before YouTube and all that.

我的意思是，在 YouTube 和那些東西出現之前，它真的非常病毒式傳播。

All of a sudden, people wanted to meet us more.

突然間，大家變得更想見我們了。

And we got meetings everywhere all of a sudden.

And people were like, "OK, what do you want to do?" They eventually signed a contract to produce six episodes of a cartoon show based on the spirit of Christmas for a fledgling cable network called Comedy Central.

他們就說：「好，你們想做什麼？」最後他們簽約，為一家剛起步的有線電視臺 Comedy Central 製作六集的動畫節目，節目精神是關於聖誕節。

The show was named South Park after a real place in a remote stretch of Colorado where Trey Parker says strange things always seem to happen.

這部節目叫做《南方公園》，取名自科羅拉多州一個偏遠地區的真實地名，Trey Parker 說那裡總是會發生奇怪的事情。

South Park was where everyone growing up, all the stories would come were like, "Oh, did you hear they found another UFO?

《南方公園》就是大家成長過程中，所有故事都會跑出來的地方，就像是：「喔，你有聽說又發現了不明飛行物嗎？

There's been all these cattle mutilations." And it was like, "Where?

有發生過各種牲畜被肢解的事件。」然後就會說：「在哪裡？

South Park?" Their version of South Park would become a creative petri dish to examine and parody all the truly weird things going on in the adult world of America, as seen through the eyes of four elementary school boys who tried to make sense of it all.

《南方公園》嗎？」他們版本的《南方公園》變成了一個創意培養皿，用來檢視和諷刺美國成人世界裡所有真正奇怪的事情，透過四個小學男生的視角，他們試圖理解這一切。

我們以前會聊到《All in the Family》。

And we were big fans of All in the Family.

我們是《All in the Family》的忠實粉絲。

And we were in the time of the early '90s, we were kind of sitting there going, "You know, a show like that couldn't be on the air right now.

那時是九零年代初期，我們坐在那裡想：「你知道嗎，像那樣的節目現在不可能播出了。