Pageant
In the summer of 2013 the church will stage a pageant on the grounds of the temple, along the lines of the Hill Cumorah Pageant and others done in the U.S., but with a very British theme. This will be the first official church pageant performed outside of North America. The pageant script was written by Alex Mackenzie-Johns, a British Latter-day Saint, and is under the guidance of Stephen C. Kerr, a British area seventy.
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