Oh, Missoula!

The location couldn't be...er...topped. The kids practiced in this brown carriage house/barn all week until the productions on Saturday evening.

There, now, she doesn't LOOK like an evil magic flower, now, does she?

Here's a hint as to what play they put on: Look at the staff that Alex is holding....and the Tin Man in the next picture:

That's Hannah on the far right - an Orange Evil Magic Flower.

If you look closely through the barn doors, you might spy the Scarecrow during the second performance.....

At least one of the audience members were satisfied with rolling in the freshly-cut hay (achoo!) on the hill behind the barn.

Cast pictures....
That's our unhappy (hot, tired, hungry, homesick?) flower second from the right. A bottle of water and a half-a-can-o-Pepsi perked her right back up.....

And then it was time to leave. It rained during the last 20 minutes or so of the second performance, but the reward of the steam rising up from the hollows of the Alleghenies more than made up for it.

Thank you to the Arts Council, the Alleghany Foundation, The Missoula Children's Theater Company and everyone else who made this a great time!