The Gingerbread Kid

The Gingerbread Kid at Coterie Theatre

When a child with magic in their veins can't stop sampling the family bakery's goods, trouble arrives faster than frosting can set. The Gingerbread Kid brings Allspice to The Coterie Theatre stage—a young baker's offspring who bolts from home after one too many stolen sweets, landing in a world where nursery-rhyme characters aren't safely tucked into separate books.

This pop musical runs approximately sixty minutes, making it a smart choice for families introducing younger theatergoers to live performance or anyone craving a story that moves. Jodi Marr's music and Abe Reybold's book and lyrics follow Allspice through encounters with Henny Penny and her gang, Little Boy Blue, a creature called Foofinella—also known as Little Bunny Foo Foo—and a fox whose appetite drives more than one scene. These aren't cameos. The familiar names collide and tangle in ways that give classic tales new friction, all inside a musical framework built for Kansas City audiences of every age.

Allspice's predicament—fleeing the fallout of a sweet tooth—becomes the thread pulling together characters who usually stay in their own stories. The musical doesn't park them side by side for recognition's sake; it lets them share the same adventure, the same stakes, the same hungry fox.

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