Missoula Children's Theatre

"The final product… always
includes young students who
have ‘dramatically’ blossomed
personally, emotionally and
socially!"

Jim Caron and the Missoula Children’s Theater “develops self-esteem, leadership and a sense of community” in thousands of children across the world every year.

The program needs at least 30 students, or it will have to be canceled this year and put off until the summer of 2010, said Caron, who said he overestimated the impact of MCT’s name recognition and was also slow to advertise the program.

Martin Charnin (author of Annie, the musical), J.K. Simmons (Juno, Spiderman Trilogy, ABC’s The Closer), Bill Bowers (Under a Montana Moon, Scarlet Pimpernel and The Lion King on Broadway), Alexander Gemignani (Les Miserables and Sweeney Todd on Broadway) and Alan Campbell (Sunset Boulevard Tony Award winner) among others are secured as seminar leaders for the inaugural summer.

Attendees will be offered classes in Acting, Singing, Dancing and other performance areas, eight hours a day, five days a week from June 22 to August 7, 2009. These students will receive two full-year fine arts credits to be transferred on to their local High School transcripts.

“The cutest thing in the history of cuteness…a joyful portrait!”
– Nathan Lee, The New York Times

The Missoula Children’s Theatre has been bringing full-scale musical productions via their famous “little red trucks” to more than 1,200 communities annually for more than 30 years.

A future performing arts high school program will debut as a summer school starting next year, MCT Inc. officials have announced.

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This sweet little movie isn’t going to change the world, but when those little red trucks roll up, and all those little eyes light up, that’s exactly what happens.