CINDERELLA Comes to The Missoula Children’s Theatre
Performances run April 24-May 11, 2025.
By: Stephi Wild Mar. 28, 2025
The Missoula Children’s Theatre selected the most enchanting musical for the 2024-2025 Community Series finale. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella will be on stage April 24-27, May 1-4 and 8-11, 2025, breathing new life into the timeless story with the 1997 ‘Enchanted Version.’
Previous films featured Julie Andrews (1957) and Lesley Ann Warren (1965) as Cinderella. For MCT’s production, Director Heather Adams cast MCT veteran Lucy TAYLOR (Rent, SpongeBob the Musical) in the title role. Adams comments that “This version is even more accessible to current audiences and allows for a wide variety of casting choices. It’s a classic fairy tale that will bend your expectations a bit. This production has many small scenes, duets with familiar and beautiful music, all with a couple of fun ensemble production numbers from a talented cast. Those familiar with Rogers and Hammerstein will love going into this theatrical experience with those memories and make new ones with this fresh take on the old tale.”
Words such as ‘palace ball’, ‘glass slipper’, ‘prince’, and where ‘a plain yellow pumpkin can become a golden carriage’ are about all that’s needed to stir the memories and imaginations of many generations of people, making this the perfect, G-rated family show with which to top off the season. The Music Director is Gregory Boris, with Meagen Hensley-Shapiro (Studio M Owner & Director) providing the choreography.
The cast of 30 includes 8 children, with 5 actors making their MCT debut. Adams gushes that “We have a very strong ensemble and it’s exciting to bring new people into the MCT community, experiment and play with theatre magic. The costumes are opulent, the music carries you through the story with lots of underscoring, and there is so much dancing! It’s wonderful to take the archetypes, make it contemporary and see it become, well… enchanting.”
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