Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

A celebrity lion who loves his spotlight and three friends who've never seen anything wilder than Central Park—these are the zoo animals facing a very different jungle in Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at the Coterie Theatre.

Alex the lion has everything: adoring crowds, guaranteed meals, the comfort of predictable days. When Marty the zebra celebrates his tenth birthday with a wish to see the wild, that contentment shatters. Marty's escape pulls Alex, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo into a chase that lands them all on Madagascar, where King Julien immediately complicates things by wanting Alex's protection. What starts as a rescue mission becomes something stranger when a lemur king decides a predator makes the perfect bodyguard.

The penguins add their own flavor to the chaos. These birds aren't following anyone—they've got their own Antarctica plan, a separate escape scheme that crashes into the larger adventure. Their comic personality offers a different rhythm from the friends' struggle to reunite and survive.

The Coterie brings this all-ages musical to Kansas City audiences in an approximately 60-minute stage adaptation based on the DreamWorks film. Songs including Wild and Free and Best Friends carry the story through Alex's crisis of identity and the group's fumbling attempts at wilderness survival.

Secure your tickets now for a compact musical that trades zoo bars for unpredictable island politics.