The Gingerbread Kid

The Gingerbread Kid at Coterie Theatre

A child born into a house of bakers sounds like a sweet life—until those bakers discover every cake, pie and pastry has vanished. Allspice isn't an ordinary kid. Magic courses through this young troublemaker, and so does an appetite that can't resist the delicious creations cooling on the kitchen counter. When the sugar-dusted evidence points straight back, Allspice does what any guilty child would do: runs.

The Gingerbread Kid at the Coterie Theatre follows that flight into a world where storybook characters become traveling companions and threats alike. Henny Penny and her gang cross paths with the runaway, as do Little Boy Blue, Foofinella—better known as Little Bunny Foo Foo—and a fox whose hunger rivals Allspice's own. The stakes shift from stolen sweets to survival in unfamiliar territory, and every encounter tests whether Allspice can outrun consequences or must finally face them.

Jodi Marr’s music and Abe Reybold’s book and lyrics propel the sixty-minute adventure, shaping a score that moves from mischief to danger without losing its playful edge. This all-ages pop musical gives Kansas City families a story about temptation, flight and what happens when running out the door means running into trouble. Characters collide, allegiances form and a magical child learns that some messes can't be left behind.

Grab tickets for The Gingerbread Kid at the Coterie Theatre.