The Gingerbread Kid

The Gingerbread Kid at Coterie Theatre

When a child born from sugar and spice discovers that every sweet comes with consequences, running away starts to look like the only option. The Gingerbread Kid follows Allspice, the magical offspring of a baking couple, who bolts after one too many forbidden treats—and finds the wider world is less forgiving than home.

The Coterie presents this approximately sixty-minute pop musical where familiar storybook faces turn up in unexpected places. Henny Penny and her gang cross paths with Little Boy Blue. Foofinella—better known as Little Bunny Foo Foo—joins the chase. And then there's the hungry fox, prowling through the adventure with plans of his own. These characters don't stay in separate tales; they collide, complicate and force Allspice to navigate a landscape where everyone wants something.

The music and lyrics come from Jodi Marr and Abe Reybold, who've crafted a contemporary score that treats folklore like raw material for something new. This isn't a stitched-together medley of nursery rhymes. It's a pop musical built for all ages, where the melodies carry the urgency of a kid on the run and the weight of choices made in haste.

Kansas City's Coterie Theatre brings the adventure to life with a production designed to move fast and land hard. Get tickets for Allspice’s pop-musical collision with storybook neighbors.