Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

Four zoo animals who've never spent a night outside captivity suddenly find themselves on a remote island where staying means learning to live without walls, schedules or guaranteed safety. Madagascar – A Musical Adventure brings this classic friendship-under-pressure story to the Coterie Theatre, where Alex the celebrity lion, Marty the restless zebra, Melman the anxious giraffe and Gloria the practical hippo discover that escape plans rarely go as expected.

The trouble starts when Marty celebrates his tenth birthday with a dangerous wish: he wants to see the wild. His midnight dash from the Central Park Zoo pulls his three best friends into a chase that ends not in familiar Central Park but on the shores of Madagascar, where nothing works the way it did back home. King Julien rules this strange new world, and he sees Alex as useful protection rather than a fellow refugee—a complication that tests every assumption the friends brought with them.

The roughly hour-long all-ages production follows the book by Kevin Del Aguila with music and lyrics by George Noriega and Joel Someillan, drawing from the DreamWorks film. Songs including Wild and Free and Best Friends track the four central characters as they navigate a place where meals don't arrive on schedule and celebrity status means nothing. Even the penguins have their own Antarctica agenda, leaving Alex and his friends to figure out survival on their own terms.

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