Mct Inc

Community theatre (community series) - mct typically presents a five-show series, including well-known musicals and dramas for general audiences, spanning october to may. Mct produces, directs, and designs these productions in-house. The shows present talented casts of all ages and have many repeat season ticket holders year after year. The final dress rehearsal of each show is presented for an audience, with the admission "price" being a can of food for local charities. Mct also adapts two community theatre productions each year to a sensory friendly format. This performance has a reduced ticket price and often financial assistance is available. The objective is to make the production accessible to patrons that might not otherwise attend a theatrical performance.

Local children's programs (youth series) - mct offers eight week-long day camps and three six-week performing arts classes which take place at mct headquarters in missoula serving grades k-12. Every child who signs up is cast, and all programs culminate in performances on the mct stage. The eight day camps feature shows in the international tour project repertoire, and the three longer classes are opportunities to stage world premieres and/or more complex shows new to missoula. Additionally, children's programs includes a 2 week-long summer camp on flathead lake for teens (performing arts camp), a week-long summer camp at seeley lake for younger teens (pac prep), and an accredited, five-week summer theatre program for high school students called next step prep. Mct also offers six, 1 day "play in a day" classes for days that school is not in session. The number of participants in these programs for the fiscal year were 517 in day camps, 213 in production classes, 170 in performing arts camp, and 125 in play in a day for total participation of 1,025 youths locally! Theatre for young audiences is a program put on each fall by mct actors that is specifically produced for k-8 audiences. Through a collaboration with spark!, every second grader in the city is bussed to mct to take part in the program. There are four to five shows over a two-day period, to include a performance adapted to be sensory friendly. For the fiscal year ending may 31, 2024, we were not able to carry out next step prep, but are planning to resume next fiscal year in a revised format to rebuild the program.