Peoples Bank Theatre is excited to bring back the Missoula Children’s Theatre for a one-week children’s theatre camp this year! This is a fantastic opportunity to introduce your children to the performing arts. We encourage children who are entering the 1st through 12th grades to audition. It is FREE for children to audition and participate in this camp!
Auditions will be held for the Missoula Children’s Theatre production of Treasure Island from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Monday, August 4th, at Peoples Bank Theatre, located at 222 Putnam Street in Marietta, Ohio. Those auditioning should arrive at 10:00 a.m. and plan to stay for the full two hours. Most of the chosen cast members will be asked to stay for a rehearsal immediately following the audition.
Approximately 50 to 60 roles are available for local students. All students entering 1st through 12th grade are encouraged to audition. No advance preparation is necessary.
Most students will rehearse approximately 4 hours and 15 minutes each day, from Monday, August 4th, through Friday, August 8th. The production team will provide the specific rehearsal schedule after auditions are held on Monday, August 4th.
The performance is scheduled for 7:00 pm at Peoples Bank Theatre on Friday, August 8th.
SHOW SYNOPSIS
Adapted by Jim Caron Music and Lyrics by Jim Caron and Michael McGill
The Missoula Children’s Theatre takes pride in presenting TREASURE ISLAND, an original adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s epic novel.
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.
