I’ve been listening to the new cast album for The Book of Mormon and it’s infectious. I love it. It was available for free streaming on NPR for a week, but it came down a few days ago, so this evening I decided to buy it on iTunes.

I don’t think I’ve enjoyed listening to a cast album this much since Avenue Q. (That makes sense, since they have something in common: Robert Lopez helped write both scores.) Almost every song has some lyrics that make me laugh, and much of the actual music is so good. As for that humor, even though Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote most of the show, it’s not just dumb gross-out humor – lots of it is very witty.

When we saw the show a couple of months ago I remember feeling something similar: how wonderful it was to experience an original, hilarious, heart-filled musical, such a rarity these days. With the cast recording, I can revisit that feeling as much as I want.