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when she was five weeks old. When she married Guido Della Vecchia, he was welcomed into the family business. He eventually played Pontius Pilate. Johanna and Guido assumed management of the Black Hills Passion Play in 1991. Guido died on March 13, 2013, at Rapid City Regional Hospital of complications from pneumonia.
• Although the story of Christ is eternal, the Black Hills Passion Play was not. The Black Hills Passion Play had its final curtain call on Aug. 31, 2008. Attendance had dropped throughout the later years. In all, more than 10 million people and four generations of families had attended the Black Hills Passion Play and made it a theatrical legend.