Cory Walsh

Here's a quick guide to some upcoming arts and cultural events happening around Missoula in the week ahead.

A new Americana musical

(Friday-Sunday, Aug. 29-31)

A group of Broadway and Nashville theater and music pros are premiering a new musical, “The Way Way West,” here in Missoula. The evening-length show, with tunes written in an Americana and folk style, retells the trials of real settlers tied to a 19th century massacre in Utah Territory, according to an email from Missoula Children’s Theatre.

The plot description, per MCT’s website, goes like this: “This show tells the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857 which was perpetrated by settlers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints involved with the Utah Territorial Militia (officially called the Na

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