Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

A lion who loves room service is about to lose everything he knows, and the friend dragging him into the unknown thinks he's doing everyone a favor. Madagascar – A Musical Adventure at the Coterie Theatre brings the DreamWorks story to Kansas City with a crisp sixty-minute show that turns a birthday wish into a survival problem.

Marty the zebra hits his tenth birthday wanting more than zoo routines, so he bolts for the wild—and Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo chase after him. Alex thrives on his Central Park Zoo celebrity and the predictable meals that come with it. Marty craves freedom; Alex craves dinner. When the penguins' Antarctica scheme sweeps the whole group to Madagascar, those opposite instincts collide in a place where nobody delivers lunch and the rulebook doesn't exist.

King Julien enters with his own agenda: he wants Alex's protection, which tangles the friends' hopes of sticking together. Songs including Wild and Free and Best Friends give each character space to argue their side, and the stakes stay personal—can a friendship survive when one friend's dream is the other's disaster?

The Coterie stages this all-ages musical from book writer Kevin Del Aguila and composers George Noriega and Joel Someillan, running into early August. Grab your ticket and watch four famous zoo animals figure out what home really means when the gates finally open.