Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

The wild sounds wonderful to Marty and deeply inconvenient to the lion who likes his meals delivered. When Marty marks his tenth birthday with a wish to see the wild, his best friend Alex suddenly faces a choice: stay comfortable in their Central Park Zoo home or chase after the zebra determined to find freedom. Their friendship pulls tighter as they end up farther from Manhattan than either imagined.

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre brings Kevin Del Aguila's book and songs including Wild and Free and Best Friends to Kansas City in an hour-long journey built for all ages. Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo join the rescue mission, but the penguins have their own agenda—a separate escape to Antarctica that adds its own comic energy to the chaos. Their scheme runs parallel to the main adventure, offering a different flavor of rebellion alongside Marty's hunger for something beyond the zoo gates.

The friends' arrival in Madagascar introduces King Julien, whose eagerness for Alex's protection tangles up any simple plan to get home. Alex must navigate this new demand while watching Marty thrive in exactly the kind of wilderness he himself never wanted. The tension between comfort and freedom shapes every step of their unplanned adventure, testing bonds formed in captivity now stretched across unfamiliar territory.

Grab tickets for this DreamWorks-inspired musical running into early August.