The Gingerbread Kid

The Gingerbread Kid at Coterie Theatre

The magical child of two bakers discovers that devouring your parents' fresh-baked goods might come with a side of regret. The Gingerbread Kid turns Allspice loose on a world where storybook neighbors aren't just footnotes in separate chapters—they're living next door, and they all have opinions about a runaway who won't face the music.

Allspice shares the stage with Henny Penny and her gang, Little Boy Blue, a creature called Foofinella who also goes by Little Bunny Foo Foo, and a fox with an appetite. These aren't cameos. The Coterie's pop musical throws familiar names into the same adventure, letting nursery-rhyme logic collide with fairy-tale consequences in a story where everyone's trajectory gets tangled.

Jodi Marr's music and Abe Reybold's book and lyrics shape a sixty-minute world built for audiences of any age. Allspice isn't an ordinary baker's kid—there's magic involved, which makes the sweet-toothed mischief more complicated than a simple cookie heist. Running away solves nothing when the characters you meet have their own problems, and a hungry fox doesn't care about your backstory.

The Coterie Theatre in Kansas City hosts a show that treats children’s-story logic seriously without talking down to anyone in the room. Allspice has to decide whether escaping trouble beats owning it, and that choice plays out among neighbors who know a thing or two about running, hiding and consequences. Choose tickets for Allspice’s mixed-up storybook adventure at The Coterie.