When Ronnie Spoto was growing up in Florida, he used to occasionally see Mormon missionaries, traveling in pairs, dressed conservatively in white shirts and black pants, “riding their bikes down the street.”

“I never could have imagined that someday I would be portraying a musical version of that,” the actor said in a telephone interview, just days before Broadway in Scranton brings the touring version of “Book of Mormon” to the Scranton Cultural Center at Masonic Temple from Dec. 19-21.

Spoto portrays Elder Smith as part of the ensemble, and he’ll be one of the singing, tap dancing Mormons in what he describes as a highlight of the show, the “Turn it Off” number, in which the elders sing about “turning off” negative emotions as if a light switch could do it.

“That alone is worth the pr

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