Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

When your best friend wants to run free and you just want your lunch on time, somebody's going to end up shipwrecked. Madagascar – A Musical Adventure follows four zoo animals whose loyalties pull them thousands of miles from home—straight into the territory of a lemur king who sees Alex the lion as either the perfect bodyguard or the perfect threat.

Alex loves his comfortable celebrity life at the Central Park Zoo, but Marty the zebra dreams bigger on his tenth birthday. One wish to see the wild sends Marty bolting into the night, and Alex, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo scramble after him. Meanwhile, a crew of penguins hatches its own breakout plan bound for Antarctica, adding a second layer of scheming to the chaos. Everyone lands in Madagascar, where King Julien's shifting agenda turns a simple reunion into a high-stakes negotiation among friends.

The Coterie presents this roughly one-hour musical adapted from the DreamWorks film, with a book by Kevin Del Aguila and songs by George Noriega and Joel Someillan. Numbers including Wild and Free and Best Friends anchor a story that asks whether safety beats adventure—and whether loyalty survives when someone you trust wants something you can't give. It's the kind of choice that fits neatly into sixty minutes but lingers much longer.

Get tickets for Madagascar – A Musical Adventure at the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City and see what happens when escape plans collide.