Madagascar - A Musical Adventure

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure at Coterie Theatre

A lion who adores room service faces a jungle with no menus. When Alex lives for the applause and the steak dinner at New York's Central Park Zoo, his best friend Marty the zebra dreams instead of life beyond the fence—and on his tenth birthday, Marty slips away to find it.

Madagascar – A Musical Adventure brings the DreamWorks story to the Coterie Theatre stage in Kansas City as an all-ages musical running roughly sixty minutes. Alex, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo chase after Marty, but they're not the only ones with an escape plan: the penguins are staging their own breakout aimed at Antarctica. That parallel scheme adds a different comic flavor to the mix, turning a simple rescue into a collision of personalities and ambitions.

They all land in Madagascar, where King Julien offers Alex a deal—protection in exchange for star power. The songs include Wild and Free and Best Friends, framing the tension between Alex's comfortable celebrity life and Marty's hunger for something bigger. It's a story about what happens when the wild stops being a postcard and becomes the only option, especially for a lion whose idea of survival involves regular deliveries.

The Coterie presents this production from early June through the start of August. Grab your tickets and watch four zoo friends figure out what freedom actually costs.