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Show 'Mormon Miracle9 Pageant Opens Tonight in Manti MANTI The Mormon Miracle Pageant, one of the west's major summer productions, gets underway Thursday at Temple Hill in Manti, and continues July 15, 16, and 19 to 23. The pageant begins each evening at 9 p.m. on the south slope of the Manti Temple grounds. Admission is free. Originally written by Miss Grace Johnson of Ephraim, for a lecture in cities of Eastern United States it was later revised for presentation in Centennial Conference of LDS Church in June, 1947. The pageant was first performed July 23, 1967, at the Sanpete County Fairgrounds and since then has been presented on the present site on Manti Temple Hill. The script was adopted into pageant form by Mrs. Macksene Rux of Salt Lake City, who has directed the Pageant for eight years. A high quality sound tape, prepared under her direction was first used in 1970 to replace the live performance of a three hundred voice local choir and fifty piece orchestra. A cast of approximately 400 characters, many of the principle roles with double and triple casting this year, will have spent a full month in intensive rehearsals by the opening night. That many more people are involved in production. |