A few points.
a) I’m surprised there is any place in MT that is “mostly liberal”.
b) “The Mikado” is meant to be flexible to add relevent items about time and place, if desired.
c) Just what “children” are performing “The Mikado”? I’d presume this is high school. I suspect drawing sympathies when using the term “children”, because that innocent sweet term is never used these days unless we’re meant to fawn in defense of them. Usually it’s the sadly casual term “kids”.
University of MT - Missoula.
University of Colorado - Boulder.
University of Texas - Austin.
Its not a school. Its a municipal theater apparently. Its not a play BY children but FOR children. They probably bussed in all the school kids for the show.