Your kid's favorite week of the summer!
WHAT IS MISSOULA CHILDREN'S THEATRE?
The Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT) is a touring children's theater program that travels across the United States and internationally, casting local youths in performances of original plays based on classic children's stories. Based in Missoula, Montana, it is part of MCT, Inc., a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that employs about 120 full-time staff members and also includes the Missoula Community Theatre. The Missoula Children's Theatre is believed to be the world's largest touring children's theatre.
WHAT IS MCT'S MISSION?
The mission statement of MCT is "the development of life skills in children through participation in the performing arts." The organization has traveled to 50 states, 5 Canadian Provinces, and 17 countries. One goal of MCT is to "reach the small communities that have few creative outlets or resources for their children", and to "help our country's children grow into confident, successful citizens using the positive results of our programs." Traveling to over 1,000 communities annually, MCT works with roughly 65,000 children a year who perform in plays, and their theater workshops reach 150,000 young people in underserved areas.
MCT first came to Breckenridge in 2015 and has been returning every year since (with the exception of 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19).
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
If you want to read more about MCT, the organization's history, and what a show week involves, please visit their website using the button below.
PREVIOUS SHOWS
2024 - Treasure Island
SYNOPSIS: Young Jim Hawkins, a mischievous lad, lives with his Mother and six Sisters in a seaside village on the coast of Maine. The year is 1782 and the American War for Revolution is in its last days. Longing for adventure, Jim comes under the hypnotic spell of the legendary pirate, Long John Silver. While waiting tables in the family Inn, Jim finds a treasure map and, with the villainous Silver as his seeming mentor, sails uncharted seas with only the ragged map and a flock of Gulls as guides. Always up for adventure, Jim’s Ruffian friends say farewell to their Mariner parents and serve as cabin boys for Silver and his band of hilarious (although unsavory) Pirate types. Once on the island, nights are sleepless as true colors are revealed in our hero’s quest for the proverbial happy ending. Then - at last - the treasure is found and hand in hand we’re homeward bound.
Adapted by Jim Caron | Music and Lyrics by Jim Caron and Michael McGill