The best musical number in “The Book of Mormon,” the Tony Award-winning play from the holy fools who created “South Park,” is a fantasia that features Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, Johnnie Cochran, Genghis Khan and dancing cups of Starbucks coffee. Its title is “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream.”
This political season, a Mormon hell dream might also feature a grinning Newt Gingrich, who is thus far preventing Mitt Romney, the most prominent Mormon on earth, from a straight shot at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. As the chorus of “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream” intones, “It’s super spooky-wooky!”
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