Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

A zebra who dreams of running wild. A lion who'd rather order room service. When Marty breaks out of Central Park Zoo on his birthday, he isn't just chasing adventure—he's dragging his best friends into a continent none of them bargained for.

The Coterie brings Madagascar – A Musical Adventure to Kansas City this summer, and the stakes are simpler than you'd think: can Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria survive a place that wasn't designed for them? Marty wants Wild and Free, the open horizon he's never known. Alex wants his steak dinners back. Gloria and Melman just want everyone to stop panicking. Meanwhile, King Julien has his own plans for the new arrivals, and a quartet of penguins are busy plotting their own escape to Antarctica. The collision between zoo luxury and untamed jungle gives this all-ages musical its comic tension and surprising heart.

Based on the DreamWorks film, with a score by George Noriega and Joel Someillan, the show runs about an hour—short enough to hold younger attention spans, long enough to let numbers like Best Friends land. The book by Kevin Del Aguila keeps the central question alive: what happens when the life you thought you wanted collides with the life you actually need?

Grab tickets at the Coterie Theatre and let four very different animals figure it out together.