The Ramona Pageant is an outdoor play staged annually at Hemet, California since 1923. The script is adapted from the novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson. It is held over three consecutive weekends in April and May in the Ramona Bowl, a natural amphitheater in the foothills above Hemet in Riverside County. The pageant features a four hundred member cast, made up largely of area residents, and is described as the largest and longest-running outdoor play in the nation.
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Based on the hugely popular novel "Ramona," written by Helen Hunt Jackson in 1884, the Ramona Outdoor Play was adapted by playwright Garnet Holme - an early 20th Century master of outdoor pageantry and drama.
With an artists vision and a writers passion for justice, a rocky hillside tucked away in a remote valley gave birth to RAMONA in 1923.
The Ramona Bowl Amphitheatre is uniquely suited to bring to life one of the most beloved musicals of all time.
The RamonaPageant is an outdoor play staged annually at Hemet, California since 1923.
It is held over three consecutive weekends in April and May in the Ramona Bowl, a natural amphitheater in the foothills above Hemet in Riverside County.
The pageant features a four hundred member cast, made up largely of area residents, and is described as the largest and longest-running outdoor play in the nation.
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