Oh dear, here it comes: "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone - who have long poked their satirical sticks into the LDS Church's bear cage (such as the classic episode that depicted Joseph Smith's founding of the church) - are reportedly working on the Broadway-bound "Mormon Musical." (Could a title be more self-explanatory?)

According to the New York Post's PopWrap blog, Parker and Stone have developed a script with "Avenue Q" co-writer Mark Lopez and are shopping it around to producers - with Broadway actor Cheyenne Jackson (now starring in the stage adaptation of "Xanadu") may star in it.

No word on who's writing the music. Interestingly, the guy who composed the songs for "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut," Marc Shaiman, was one of the major voices urging a boycott of a Sacramento regional theater because its artistic director - a Mormon - gave money to support California's ban on same-sex marriages.

If Parker and Stone are writing a play about Mormons, let us hope they write Utah state legislator Chris Buttars into the story - if only so we can hear that immortal "South Park" catchphrase, "Buttars, what is wrong with you?" employed to its best effect.

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