Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

Four friends who never asked for adventure are about to discover what happens when a birthday wish goes spectacularly wrong. Madagascar – A Musical Adventure brings Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo to the Coterie Theatre, where a routine zoo escape turns into a journey nobody planned.

Marty's tenth birthday wish—to see the wild—sets everything in motion. Alex loves his Central Park Zoo celebrity and regular meals, but when Marty bolts, loyalty pulls the others after him. Meanwhile, the penguins are hatching their own Antarctica scheme, adding a different comic personality to the chaos. Everyone ends up in Madagascar, where King Julien decides Alex is exactly the kind of protection his kingdom needs. The friends have their own problems to solve, but King Julien has plans of his own.

This all-ages musical adaptation runs roughly one hour, packing George Noriega and Joel Someillan's songs—including Wild and Free and Best Friends—into a compact story. Kevin Del Aguila's book keeps the focus on what these mismatched personalities want and what gets in their way, from jungle politics to the penguins' separate escape scheme. The Coterie stages the DreamWorks adventure throughout summer, giving Kansas City families a show built for shorter attention spans without skipping the friendship that holds it all together.

Grab tickets now for Madagascar – A Musical Adventure at the Coterie Theatre.