Area youth to perform in Missoula Children's Theatre's Treasure Island

DAYTON–The Missoula Children's Theater (MCT), the nation's largest touring children's theatre, will once again be at Dayton's Liberty Theater August 5-9, performing the literary classic, "Treasure Island."

Budding area thespians audition for the cast, and the show is rehearsed throughout the week, concluding with two public performances, Friday, August 9 at 7 p.m. and a matinee Saturday, August 10 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $5 apiece.

Pre-registration is available on the Liberty Theater's website libertytheater.org. Free cast sign-ups will be from 2-5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 30, and Friday. August 2. Children must be age 6 through 6th grade entering to participate.

A team of two Tour Actor/Directors will arrive in Dayton with a set, lights, costumes, props and make-up-everything it takes to put on a play...except the cast.

The Missoula Children's Theatre takes presents an original adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's epic novel Treasure Island. 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.

MCT is the nation's largest touring children's theatre, and has been touring extensively for more than 40 years.

For more information, or to purchase tickets for Pinocchio, visit http://www.libertytheater.org, call the office at 509-382-1380.