Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

Four zoo animals chasing one runaway zebra into the unknown makes for the sort of chaos only best friends can survive—and Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at the Coterie Theatre turns that scramble into an hour-long musical built for families who like their adventures brisk and their humor layered.

Alex the lion has grown comfortable with his Central Park Zoo fame and predictable meal schedule. Marty the zebra dreams bigger on his tenth birthday, wishing for something wild and untamed. When Marty bolts, Alex follows alongside Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, determined to bring their friend home. Meanwhile, a squad of penguins pursues its own Antarctic escape, injecting a separate strand of comic scheming into the mayhem. Everyone lands in Madagascar, where King Julien decides Alex might make useful muscle.

The roughly sixty-minute runtime keeps the story moving without detours, giving Kansas City audiences a complete arc that doesn't test younger attention spans or pad the plot. Songs like Wild and Free and Best Friends ground the action in Marty's restless yearning and the loyalty pulling these mismatched personalities across an ocean. George Noriega and Joel Someillan wrote the music and lyrics; Kevin Del Aguila adapted the DreamWorks film into a stage book that juggles multiple escape plans and one very anxious giraffe.

Grab tickets for Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at the Coterie Theatre and meet the crew where the wild things are.