Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

A lion who loves room service meets a zebra dreaming of horizons—and their friendship hits a crisis when Marty decides his tenth birthday is the perfect moment to bolt for the wild. Madagascar - A Musical Adventure brings that clash to the Coterie Theatre, where Alex's devotion to scheduled meals and adoring zoo crowds runs headlong into Marty's hunger for freedom. When the zebra slips away, Alex the celebrity lion, Melman the anxious giraffe and Gloria the hippo follow, launching a rescue that nobody planned and nobody can control.

The musical captures that restless ache in Wild and Free, giving Marty's wish a voice that cuts through the comfort of Central Park Zoo routines. Meanwhile, a quartet of penguins pursues their own getaway to Antarctica, proof that wanderlust strikes in all forms.

Everything tangles when the friends wash up in Madagascar, where King Julien sees an opportunity. He wants Alex's protection, a complication that turns their arrival into negotiation rather than simple survival. Marty's dream and Alex's panic suddenly share the stage with a lemur's agenda, and the sixty-minute adventure refuses to settle into easy answers.

The Coterie brings Kevin Del Aguila's book and the songs by George Noriega and Joel Someillan to Kansas City for all ages. Best Friends anchors the bond that Marty's escape tests, and the musical trusts young audiences to feel the tug between loyalty and longing. Get tickets and meet King Julien’s plan for a very reluctant protector.