When Clark Johnsen takes the stage as a member of the ensemble in "The Book of Mormon," he knows whereof he sings and dances: Mr. Johnsen, 34 years old, grew up within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, graduated from Brigham Young University and spent two years on a religious mission in Mexico.
Playing a Mormon onstage is one of the last things he ever planned to do. "If someone had said 'You're going to play a missionary on Broadway'—while I was shlepping 10 Books of Mormon around Mexico—I would have said 'Well, that's impossible. There's never going to be a musical about the Book of Mormon.' "
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