Josh Gad & Andrew Rannells Look Back at BOOK OF MORMON Tony Awards Performance

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The hit show is celebrating its 15th anniversary with special performances this week.

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It's been fifteen years since Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells put on their Sunday clothes as their fan-favorite characters in Broadway's The Book of Mormon . In celebration, the delightful duo joined the rest of the original cast for a throwback performance during the Tony Awards this past Sunday.

"We had a great time," Rannells reflected during a post-awards visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers . "It's been very overwhelming to get to rehearse this material again, and then here we are doing it on the Tonys. And the adrenaline kicked in and I felt like I'm 19 and I can sing forever! And then this morning, I woke up and sounded like Lauren Bacall ."

Gad did not share his co-star's feelings of juvenescence. "I felt slightly differently. I went out there, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm 45. I shouldn't be doing this.'" He admitted that, despite having performed in hundreds of performances during his run, the material didn't come back right away.

"At first you're like, 'Wait, I did this?' And then you do it like twice and all of a sudden it's muscle memory and everything starts coming back. But there are these new lines that Trey [Parker] and Matt [Stone] have added since we left and those are like a foreign antibody where something short circuits."

Also during the interview, the pair spoke about the fire that broke out at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre last month, and returning to the show for the "MAGICAL MORMON MYSTERY WEEK” performances from June 9-14. Check out their late-night appearance, and watch the Tony performance below.

The Book of Mormon opened on Broadway on March 24, 2011. It has become one of the most successful shows in Broadway history, serving as the longest-running show in the 100-year history of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre and is now the 10th longest-running Broadway musical of all time. The Book of Mormon is also playing in London’s West End, on tour in the UK and Australia, and on tour in North America.

In addition to nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album, The Book of Mormon won five Drama Desk Awards, including Best Musical, the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, the Drama League Award for Best Musical and four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Musical. The London production, which opened on March 21, 2013 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, won four Olivier Awards including Best Musical.

The Book of Mormon features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker , Robert Lopez and Matt Stone . The production is choreographed by Casey Nicholaw and is directed by Nicholaw and Parker. The original cast featured Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad as Elder Price and Elder Cunningham, respectively, in addition to Nikki M. James , Rory O'Malley, Michael Potts , Brian Tyree Henry , and Lewis Cleale .

Set design is by three-time Tony Award winner Scott Pask , costume design is by Tony Award winner Ann Roth , lighting design is by five-time Tony Award winner Brian MacDevitt and sound design is by two-time Tony Award winner Brian Ronan . Orchestrations are by Tony Award winner Larry Hochman and two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Oremus. Music supervision and vocal arrangements are by Oremus.

Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)

In celebration of the 15th anniversary of The Book of Mormon, members from the current Broadway cast of the hit musical visited The View to perform the fan-favorite number 'Two by Two.' Watch the flashy performance now, introduced by original cast member Andrew Rannells.

Broadway performances of THE BOOK OF MORMON have resumed following a temporary shutdown caused by a May fire at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York City. Check out video from the musical’s first performance back on Broadway.

The original cast of The Book of Mormon will reunite for a special performance at the 79th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

As final work continues in the Eugene O’Neill Theatre following a fire, the start date for performances for The Book of Mormon has been adjusted to the end of May.

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Video-Josh-Gad-and-Andrew-Rannells-Reflect-on-BOOK-OF-MORMON-Tonys-Performance-20260609)._