Final Hill Cumorah Pageant Canceled Amid Coronavirus Concerns
Mar 9, 2021, 10:40 AM | Updated: 11:01 am
FILE: Hill Cumorah Pageant (Photo: Tom Smart, Deseret News)
(Photo: Tom Smart, Deseret News)
MANCHESTER, N.Y. – The final performances of the Hill Cumorah Pageant have been canceled, officials said.
In 2018, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced several of its large-scale productions would halt. That included the Hill Cumorah Pageant, which has been performed annually in New York by the Church since 1937.
The final performances of the pageant were slated for the summer of 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic forced the event to be postponed to July 2021.
Now, with COVID-19 still an issue across the country, the postponed shows have been canceled altogether. There will be no further performances of the pageant.
“It’s with a heavy heart that we don’t have the opportunity to continue to present the pageant,” pageant president Neil
Pitts said in a statement. “The pageant has had a long and successful run. The world is in a place today where we just cannot continue.”
In lieu of a final performance the Church will broadcast the 2019 pageant on July 9 at ChurchofJesusChrist.org/broadcast.
