We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Amanda Belscamper, an actor/director with a prior Missoula Children's Theatre production staged in Chinook, checks in costumes after the final performance of "The Little Mermaid" in 2015. This year's actor/directors both are Midwesterners both having completed college in Illinois.
When the curtain goes up this Saturday afternoon for two live performances of the "The Snow Queen" performed by local youngsters, it will mark another milestone for the Danish fairy tale first published in 1844. For nearly two centuries artists have used the tale written by Hans Christian Andersen to present the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and Kay, the two main characters in the Missoula Children's Theatre's (MCT) adaptation of the original story.
The version of the fairy tale that local audiences will see was written by a senior staff member at MCT. Before a show "g...
