The Pigeon Gets A Big Time Holiday Extravaganza

The Pigeon Gets A Big Time Holiday Extravaganza at The Coterie Theatre

What happens when The Pigeon decides a perfectly good holiday party might be worth ditching for the North Pole? Mo Willems and Adam Tobin built this musical around the friction that happens when The Pigeon's impatient personality crashes into Elephant and Piggie's enthusiasm for the season. Deborah Wicks La Puma's music gives those collisions rhythm and melody, putting Willems’s familiar characters into a musical holiday adventure.

The Coterie Theatre's rolling world premiere introduces characters Kansas City families already love from picture books into an environment where squirrels decorate with abandon, friends celebrate with different agendas, and The Pigeon wonders whether the greatest gift waits somewhere else entirely. That is an awfully long way to go on a hunch about a present. Will impatience ruin the party or reveal something The Pigeon didn't expect? Songs, silly stories and audience antics turn the dilemma into a playful family celebration.

Elephant and Piggie bring their own personalities to the same celebration, so the humor comes from characters who care about each other but don't agree on how the celebration should proceed. The all-ages, approximately sixty-minute format also makes this a manageable introduction to theater: a complete musical story without a long running time.

Get tickets for The Pigeon Gets A Big Time Holiday Extravaganza at The Coterie Theatre.