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SALT LAKE CITY The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the planned final season of the Hill Cumorah Pageant will be canceled in 2021, with a broadcast of the 2019 pageant taking the place of its final bow.
In a news release, the church said the broadcast of the 2019 Hill Cumorah Pageant would honor the contribution of the tens of thousands of volunteer participants who made the pageant possible annually.
In addition, the Nauvoo Pageant s 2021 season is canceled, but church officials said the show would go on in 2022.
2019 Hill Cumorah Pageant history and significance
Church officials said the broadcast of the 2019 Hill Cumorah Pageant will be available online starting July 9, 2021. In addition to the English performance, viewers can access dubs in Spanish and Portuguese.
| Updated: 11:13 p.m.
The Hill Cumorah Pageant was scheduled to take its final bow this summer. As it turns out, the curtain came down on the long-running event for the last time almost two years ago.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday that, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the pageant will not be produced this year.
Or ever again.
Instead, the Palmyra, N.Y., spectacle will be celebrated with a broadcast of the 2019 pageant to âcommemorate the contributions of tens of thousands of volunteer participants through the years,â according to a church news release. (It can be viewed beginning July 9 on broadcasts.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.)
LDS Church cancels final season of Hill Cumorah Pageant, Nauvoo Pageant postponed
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Scene from The Hill Cumorah Pageant | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
SALT LAKE CITY – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the final season of its Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra, New York is canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The final season was originally supposed to happen this summer. Instead, the church will stream the 2019 pageant on its website beginning July 9.
“This event will commemorate the contributions of tens of thousands of volunteer participants through the years,” a church news release says.
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