Ramona Board Members Lori Van Arsdale, from left, and Hemet City Council member Linda Krupa, present a plaque to the Hemet Women;s Club who are instrumental in setting up the annual Ramona Pageant President’s Gala. Valley News/Tony Ault photo
The Ramona Pageant outdoor play’s 2024 cast was presented at the annual Ramona Pageant President’s Gala held at the Hemet Library in Hemet Saturday, Jan. 13 with a special tribute to the Arias Troubadours, the pageant’s featured music group.Introduced on stage at the special event for the cast and honored guests for the first time was actress Shirley Casillas who will be acting and singing in a lead role of Ramona with Eli Santana reprising his role as Alessandro.The event included the introduction of most of the 2024 Ramona Pageant outdoor play’s actors and actresses, some of them new with most of the others returning in the spring to the Ramona Amphitheater in the south foothills of Hemet. It will be the beginning of a new century to the nationally known outdoor pageant t
