Today, 10 A.M., children's pageant based on "The Singing Bishop" by Hal Hopson, "Sicut Cervus" by Palestrina.
But not slim enough for some: neither she nor any of the other 100 Ugandan women who recently tried out for the Face of Africa contest, an annual pageant based in South Africa that is popular around the continent, made the cut this year.
As I look around at the Christian activists, their voices slowly cracking from a long night of yelling, and at the detritus of a pageant based on simplistic stories that have no basis in physical reality, I felt completely foreign.
On the eve of the coronation, Edward progressed on horseback from the Tower to the Palace of Westminster through thronging crowds and pageants, many based on the pageants for a previous boy king, Henry VI.
The Salmon Pageant is based on demonstrated knowledge of culture, rather than on looks or donations.
His son remembers he took him to see the Ramlila, a pageant-play based on the Ramayana, and also 'read everything' aloud - Charles Kingsley, Charles Dickens, HG Wells, Gulliver's Travels, high and low culture, snippets and stories from newspapers and magazines.
The "Santas of many lands" portion of the Christmas pageant is based on Groening's experience in the second grade when he did a report on Christmas in Russia.
The pageant is clearly based on "American Idol," except that the judges are too nice: they're young ticketholders, too.
New York City, where the foreign-born and their children make up roughly 60percentt of the population, is home to upwards of a dozen small, ethnically based beauty pageants, among them Miss Trinidad and Tobago, Miss India and Miss Polonia.
