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Bill Curtis

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3022 total appearances

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

No, no.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

You know, I give him this.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

When you read the Book of Mormon on the page, you know, there's a convention in writing the scripts out where all the lyrics are in all caps.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Yes.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Which looks like screaming.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Yes.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

So when you have the lyrics to Hasadiga Ibuwai filling the page...

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

It really jumps out at a different tone than the music makes it much sweeter.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

We were hoping to run a year and maybe get some protesters.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

But instead...

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Instead, we became this long-running, mainstream, right-down-the-middle hit, which still baffles me.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Yeah, they kind of judoed us.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

They were like, let's put an ad in the playbill.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

You've seen the show, now read the book.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Great ad.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

No, but I would love to meet you if you're out there.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Yes, we're having Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells and all of the original company kind of come back and pop into the show at, you know, sort of random in random scenes.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

And and I will get to also be in it with Matt and Trey on certain nights.

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Really?

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Spirit Airlines, The Book of Mormon, and Grunting

Trey's in it every night.