Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

Four friends who've never left the Central Park Zoo are about to discover what happens when routine shatters. Madagascar – A Musical Adventure at the Coterie Theatre brings Alex the celebrity lion, Marty the restless zebra, Melman the nervous giraffe and Gloria the spirited hippo to Kansas City in a sixty-minute musical built for everyone in the family.

Marty's tenth birthday wish sets everything in motion: he wants to see the wild, not just dream about it behind bars. Alex loves his daily feedings and adoring crowds, but when Marty escapes, loyalty pulls him—and Melman and Gloria—into a chase that lands them all on an island they never imagined. The penguins have their own Antarctica scheme, and suddenly no one's going home the way they planned.

Madagascar introduces King Julien, who sees Alex as useful muscle against predators. The lemur king's self-serving hospitality complicates an already disorienting arrival, and the friends must navigate freedom that feels nothing like Marty's fantasy or Alex's comfortable captivity. Songs including Wild and Free and Best Friends give voice to the tension between adventure and security, between what these four want individually and what they owe one another when everything familiar disappears.

The Coterie presents this all-ages production with book by Kevin Del Aguila and music by George Noriega and Joel Someillan. Choose Madagascar tickets and see how four zoo friends handle freedom.