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The Pageant is the rare experience where no
one is all-important and yet each individual is very important.
Each person is anonymous - no names are mentioned.
The Pageant is not sponsored or
financed by any one organization; rather it is truly a community
effort dependent upon the generosity and concern of churches,
businesses, industries and individuals who have felt a closeness to
the Pageant.
The floor of Marion’s Memorial Coliseum seems
to be magically transformed into the streets of Jerusalem, for the
three presentations each year. |
Each
presentation begins with the Palm Sunday entry of Jesus into the city
of Jerusalem. The story, presented in six separate scenes, transports
the audience through the joys, sufferings, trials, and sorrows leading
to Resurrection morning.
The
Pageant concludes the one-hour performance in a mighty burst of praise
with the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel’s Messiah which expresses the
universal exultation of all Christendom. |