"The Wayfarer" is a religious work combining drama, opera, pageant, and oratorio written by Reverend James Edwin Crowther (1874-1970), a minister from Seattle. The "Passion-Pageant," as it was known, combined previously existing songs and arias by various composers with tableaus of historic and religious subjects using a massive supporting cast. Local music teacher Montgomery Lynch (1879-1948) adapted and directed the play, which was first performed in 1919 in Ohio, then toured to New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles.

This program for the July 27-August 1, 1925, run of "The Wayfarer" was published by the Wayfarer Pageant Society, an organization of Seattle businessmen that guaranteed the expenses of the production. The pageant was held at the University of Washington Stadium, which was the only place big enough for the "largest stage ever built," and had to accommodate a cast of 7,000 performers. The stadium (now known as Husky Stadium) had a seating capacity of 30,000.

Caption information source: Crowther, J. E. (1920). The Birth of The Wayfarer. The Christian Advocate, Volume 95, page 89.