The Mormon Miracle Pageant in Manti — an annual event for over half a century — will close its doors (or hillside, as it were) for good later this month.
Millions of people have seen the Manti spectacle and its sister show, the Hill Cumorah Pageant, in upstate New York. Originally created as a conversion tool, the charm has worn thin in later years.
The one back East began in 1937 on the very hill where Latter-day Saints believe Joseph Smith found and later returned the gold plates, which he translated into a book that now may need a new title, given that the word “Mormon” has also gone out of vogue.