The Gingerbread Kid

The Gingerbread Kid at Coterie Theatre

A pop musical about a runaway cookie might sound like pure whimsy, but The Gingerbread Kid knows what keeps anyone awake at night: the moment you realize you can't outrun what you've done. Allspice, the magical child of two bakers, devours their sweets and bolts when trouble brews. The Coterie brings this roughly one-hour adventure to Kansas City for audiences young and old alike.

What Allspice meets on the road makes the journey worth taking. Little Boy Blue wanders through. Henny Penny arrives with her anxious gang. Foofinella—also known as Little Bunny Foo Foo—hops into the action. And somewhere in the shadows, a hungry fox adds a different danger. Jodi Marr's music and Abe Reybold's book and lyrics build a fairy-tale world where appetite and consequence travel hand in hand.

At just about sixty minutes, the show fits restless schedules without sacrificing story. Allspice's sweet-toothed mischief carries enough weight to matter, and the fox's hunger adds real danger to a tale that could easily drift into bedtime-story safety. The Coterie Theatre stages the kind of compact storytelling that respects everyone's attention span while delivering a complete journey.

Get tickets for The Gingerbread Kid at The Coterie Theatre and follow Allspice into this mixed-up world of storybook characters.