Ed, sensing this might be a CNN April's Fool Joke (albeit in incredably bad taste), sent out a note to everyone asking if this was, indeed, a joke.
One friend (who will not be named) responded thusly:
It's actually a real pagent. A friend of mine danced in the pagent like ten years ago and said it was in the worst possible taste. He said that there was choreography with the wheel chairs and one of the girls had to blow to move her chair and couldn't keep up with the choreography and was blowing so much that she passed out in the middle of the number. Her chair came to a dead stop and the whole dance turned into chaos...not to mention the song they were dancing to was "What's Up" by Four Non-blondes.