The Gingerbread Kid

The Gingerbread Kid at Coterie Theatre

When a magical child born from baking decides running away solves everything, the trouble is just beginning. The Gingerbread Kid follows Allspice, offspring of a baker couple, who bolts after tasting the sweets and refusing to face what comes next. What starts as escape becomes a winding journey through a storybook landscape where familiar faces don't stay neatly in their own tales.

The Coterie brings this pop musical to Kansas City, crafted with music by Jodi Marr and book and lyrics by Abe Reybold. Instead of keeping nursery-rhyme characters safely separated, the show throws them together: Henny Penny and her anxious gang cross paths with Little Boy Blue, while Foofinella—better known as Little Bunny Foo Foo—joins the chase. The collision turns predictable bedtime stories into something stranger and more unpredictable.

Then there's the fox. Hungry and clever, this predator raises the stakes beyond Allspice's original mistake. Running from consequences is one thing; staying ahead of teeth is another. The roughly sixty-minute all-ages format at the Coterie Theatre keeps the adventure brisk, letting younger audiences stay engaged while adults appreciate the twist on tales they thought they knew.

Allspice's flight turns into a question of whether courage means stopping or keeping ahead of what hunts you. Get tickets for The Gingerbread Kid and follow the runaway into song.