{"id":241828,"date":"2025-10-21T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241828\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:23:07","slug":"sorry-broadway-fans-reaves-only-likes-book-of-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/241828\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, Broadway Fans: Reaves Only Likes \u201cBook of Mormon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELMONT, N.Y. \u2014\u00a0Sorry, Broadway fans.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Reaves, despite having watched \u201cBook of Mormon\u201d seven times, is not a musical enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBook of Mormon, Book of Mormon, and Book of Mormon,\u201d Reaves said, when asked his top-three Broadway shows. The San Jose Sharks enforcer wasn\u2019t sure if he had even gone to another Broadway show in his life.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the San Jose Sharks, as a team, watched \u201cBook of Mormon\u201d in New York City. The next day, when asked who the Broadway fan on the team was, Macklin Celebrini and Ty Dellandrea revealed that Reaves had seen \u201cBook of Mormon\u201d seven times.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SJSharks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SJSharks<\/a> went to Book of Mormon yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was great,&#8221; Celebrini said.<\/p>\n<p>He and Dellandrea noted that Reaves is the big Broadway guy on the team, Reaves has seen it 7 times<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sheng Peng (@Sheng_Peng) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheng_Peng\/status\/1980329765748834559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Reaves, it turns out, is simply a fan of one show, instead of theater in general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I wouldn\u2019t even have gone to that if it wasn\u2019t made by the creators of South Park,\u201d Reaves said. \u201cI\u2019m not a musical kind of a guy, but I\u2019m a huge South Park fan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBook of Mormon\u201d is a profane, irreverent musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of the equally-controversial \u201cSouth Park\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first time I saw it, I saw it twice in a week, because the traveling one happened to be in two cities I was in, and I\u2019ve seen it like every other year since then,\u201d the ex-New York Rangers winger said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve taken a full squad, me and [Barclay Goodrow] went when we played here with our girls, and then I\u2019ve just seen it traveling a bunch. I\u2019ve seen it in [hometown] Winnipeg a few times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll excuse his San Jose Sharks teammates for the mistake: I guess for an NHL player, seeing any Broadway show seven times makes you a Broadway super-fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just South Park humor,\u201d Reaves said. \u201cI love South Park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELMONT, N.Y. \u2014\u00a0Sorry, Broadway fans. 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