Missoula Children's Theater Presents Pied Piper February 22
Author: mt43news staff reporter
MT43 News Staff Reporter
Nothing brings a smile to your face or joy in your heart as watching little kids perform on stage. Saturday, February 22, Missoula Children’s Theater (MCT) will present Townsend Elementary students and homeschooled children in The Pied Piper.
Two seasoned actors turned directors will come from the Missoula Arts group to lead as many as 60 students in the play to learn, practice and perform the show throughout the week, until the final day on Saturday when they perform in two shows, one at 3:00 pm and one at 5:00 pm at the high school stage gym.
The play evolved from the story of a pied (colorfully dressed) piper of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, who in 1284, came to the city of Hameline when, according to legend, the city had an infestation of rats. He promised to rid the town of rats in return for a payment to which the townspeople agreed. Without giving away the plot of the story, it is safe to say the Pied Piper has been the basis for songs, poems and books throughout the ages.
If theater interests you, come to watch the young ones do their best to give this intriguing story full illumination. MCT is underwritten by Broadwater Community Theater and its sponsors and members.
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Image 1 Caption: This oldest-known painting of the Pied Piper was copied from a glass window of the Market Church in Hamelin, Germany. (c1300-1633)
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