Josh Gad

Although you're lucky.

You don't have to do any of the big dance numbers.

That's not a coincidence.

I said no to all of those.

Why didn't I say no to that?

They were like, do you want to do this big dance number?

And I said, no, thank you.

You know, the script changed so heavily.

And I don't know what this says about me that I remember reading it.

When I was auditioning for the show and not being phased by any of it and just sort of like, OK, that sounds great.

And then because I was I'm playing this Mormon missionary who is shocked by all of these things that are being said.

So it was very easy to sort of, you know, to play that part because a lot of it is sort of shocking and is not your typical musical theater fair play.

I heard the humor in it, and I felt very confident that people were going to think it was funny.

I certainly didn't think it would...

be still running on Broadway after 15 years and would have toured to Salt Lake City.

I didn't think that they would have done that, but it did.

I was involved from the very first workshop, and I remember getting a demo, and the first song I heard, I laughed my butt off.

It was, hello, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum.

The second song was, two by two, we're marching door to door, and these songs were just so fun.

And then I got to a song called Hasadiga Ibowai,