Adapted by Jim Caron
Music and Lyrics by Michael McGill and Jim Caron
Additional Music by Jon Hart and Michael Schooner
The Beauty Lou and the Country Beast Production Class is for students in K-12th grade. Tuition is $300.
Classes are April 6-10, 2026 from 9AM-5PM.
Performances are on Friday, April 10 at 4PM and 6PM.
Missoula Children’s Theatre presents Beauty Lou and the Country Beast, an original country western adaptation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Beauty Lou is the oldest daughter of the bronc-bustin’ balladeer Buck. At the local county fair, young Beauty Lou is upset by the ungrateful behavior of a miner who has won the blue ribbon for his beautiful roses. She calls him a beast and wishes that he would look like one too. Years later, when in danger of losing the family farm, Buck meets the miner-turned-beast. Beauty Lou agrees to befriend the Beast to save her family. Beauty Lou and the Beast both learn to look beyond appearances and first impressions and to see the beauty that dwells inside. The story, set in the American West, also features Beauty Lou’s six sisters, her Imaginary Friend, her dog Fleabite Clyde, farmhands Slim and Dusty, the neighborly Country Folk and the Barnyard Critters.