[7] Trail to Oregon made its Western Australian debut in 2023 at the Don Russell Performing Arts Center by Art in Motion Theatre Company[8] under the direction of Micheal Carroll, Musical Direction of Joshua Hollander and Choreography by Sophie David.

The show begins with the father greeting the audience and introducing his wife, teenage daughter, seven-year-old son, and father-in-law (known as grandpa).

They decide to go down to the general store to buy only bullets (their reasoning being that as a family of farmers, they don't need any food).

In the meantime, the general store manager has swindled Father into purchasing a wagon in terrible condition for an outrageous price, along with a deformed ox.

Son is faced with a family of buffalo and a moral decision, while Daughter and Grandpa try to convince him to kill ("Pays To Be An Animal").

When Mother 'wakes up', Daughter claims she wishes she didn't have a family to care about and that the Bandit King would take her away.

While in a coma, he hallucinates a mysterious voice telling him that the 'watchers' (the audience) will kill off one of the family members ("Dysentery World").

McDoon is watching from afar, planning to take Daughter away and make her his bride, upsetting Cletus Jones (who has his own feelings for the thief).

Father decides that he will do anything to get back his family and approaches The General Store Guy, demanding a working wagon.

When he refuses, Father threatens to shoot him and his partner, because he needed to fix his family no matter what ("When The World's At Stake (Reprise)").

While the family races to Oregon, Cletus Jones reveals his jealousy to Daughter, who constantly rejects The Bandit King's advances.

When they reach the state line, they are stopped by a doctor (Joey Richter), who tells them only the healthy members of the party can continue to Oregon, and one of them (chosen earlier by the audience) is about to die of dysentery.

The doctor announces the victim, who says their final goodbyes to the rest of the family, complete with all the sounds and smells of death by dysentery ("You Gotta Go").

To celebrate, Son finally convinces the family to help realize his dream of skinny dipping ("Naked In A Lake").