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Manti’s Mormon Miracle Pageant may end; church announces talks are underway about whether to continue such shows

The future of the Mormon Miracle Pageant, staged during the summer for more than half a century outside central Utah’s historic Manti Temple, may be in doubt.

Same goes for the mother of all Mormon spectacle shows: the 81-year-old Hill Cumorah Pageant, which tells the story of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its foundational scripture, the Book of Mormon, from the faith’s birthplace in upstate New York.

On Saturday, the Utah-based church announced in a news release that “large productions, such as pageants are discouraged” and that talks are underway with local Latter-day Saint and community leaders to “appropriately end, modify or continue these productions.