The Children's Series offers families affordable, quality productions from local drama groups four times a year.

All seats are $7 and general admission.

Missoula Children’s Theatre

Beauty Lou & the Country Beast

June 23,  1 & 5 pm

as part of the 2012 Shoreline Arts Festival
Shoreline Center Auditorium (North End)
18560 1st Ave NE, Shoreline

All tickets $7
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Missoula Children’s Theatre will be back for their 18th year at the Shoreline Arts Festival.  60 local students will have the opportunity to work under the direction of two professional actor/directors on a fully staged, costumed theatrical production.

Beauty Lou and the Country Beast, is an original country western adaptation of a classic fairy tale. Beauty Lou is the oldest daughter of the bronc-bustin' balladeer Buck. At the local county fair, young Beauty Lou is upset by the ungrateful behavior of a miner who has won the blue ribbon for his beautiful roses. She calls him a beast and wishes that he would look like one, too. Years later, when in danger of losing the family farm, Buck meets the miner-turned-beast. Beauty Lou agrees to befriend the Beast in order to save her family. Beauty Lou and the Beast both learn to look beyond appearances and first impressions and to see the beauty that dwells inside. The story, set in the American West, also features Beauty Lou's six sisters, her Imaginary Friend, her dog Fleabite Clyde, farmhands Slim and Dusty, the neighborly country folk and the barnyard critters.