Unalaska, AK – Unalaska students will take the stage tomorrow in their seventh annual performance with the Missoula Children's Theatre. This year the kids are performing a musical version of Robin Hood, which they've been rehearsing since Monday.

Seventh grader Aaron Adams plays Robin Hood in the musical, which is a slapstick take on the classic story. Adams has been in all seven musicals the Montana-based theater organization has done with the Unalaska kids, and said that this one is his favorite so far.

"It's a lot of fun, just because you get to say some funny stuff," he said. "You do some kind of dumb things in it, and it's kind of funny."

One of the most memorable scenes in the traditional Robin Hood story is the archery competition, where the Sheriff of Nottingham lures a disguised Robin Hood into giving himself away through his unparalleled skill with a bow. Third grader Rica Santiago, who plays a forester in the musical, said that in this version of the story, that scene is a little different.

"He was in a contest where they shoot the bow and arrow, and he shot backwards by accident--two times!" she said.

Other actors get to participate in the gags, too.

"I have a solo--it's kind of embarrassing, but it's fun at the same time," said eighth grader Meta Mendenhall, who plays the lead singer of the Merry Band in the musical. "That's basically what the whole play is: to be out there, but still have a fun time."

Robin Hood is directed by the Missoula Children's Theatre's Sarah Wright, who puts on more than 40 of these productions every year around the country. With only a week to prepare in each town, Wright said the most challenging part of the project is figuring out how to tailor the show to very different groups of kids each time.

"There could be 60 kids showing up, there could be 25, there could be 300--you never have any idea how many are going to be there," she said. "One week you might have a 17-year-old playing Robin Hood, the next week you might have a 10-year-old."

Robin Hood will be performed twice tomorrow at the high school's big gym, at noon and again at 2 p.m.