Live Theatre

Book & Lyrics by Steven
Cole Hughes, Music by        Jessica Jackson

The Presidents!
Tours to schools from October 2 – December 21, 2012 with music, set and sound system.  Appreciated by grades 2nd through middle grades.   Booking info: (816) 474-4241

Two wildly dexterous secret service agents fly around the country in Air Force One, singing songs about all the presidents plus lots of fast patter.  With heart pumping pace, this is a roller coaster of knowledge AND humor!  A perfect complement to this election year and inauguration.  

 
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book & Lyrics by David
Lindsay-Abaire

SHREK the Musical

October 30 – December 30, 2012   Appreciated by ages 7 through adult 

Shrek is the tale of an unlikely hero who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey, a feisty princess and a cast of fairy tale misfits. It’s a story of adventure, friendship and ogre love that’s bringing ugly back!   

World premiere theatre for young audiences version based on the DreamWorks film Shrek.

 
Based on the Newbery Medal winning Book by Lois Lowry 

Number the Stars
January 22 - February 21, 2013   Appreciated by ages 10 through adult    

Based on the Newbery Medal winning book.  During World War II, the Johansen family faces soldiers, interrogations, fierce dogs and the loss of loved ones to help their neighbors, the Rosens, escape across the ocean to Sweden and safety. Based on true actions during the Holocaust.  

This production in partnership with UMKC Theater

By Coterie Artistic Director
Jeff Church from Edgar Allen
Poe, Music performed live
by Rex Hobart

Tell-Tale Electric Poe
Tours to schools with full-sized set, music and sound system: January 29 - February 22, 2013   Booking info: (816) 474-4241

Performs at the Coterie  February 23-March 10  Appreciated by ages 11 through adult   

One actor…one musician…performing Poe stories and poems with musical lines and retorts from a reactive electric guitar!  Horrifying and humorous, our sublime creation blends old with new, and includes three famous Poe poems and two short stories dramatized (Pit and the Pendulum, Tell-Tale Heart). 

 
 World premiere, written
and directed by Ron Megee

Slashdance!

March/April TBD   Coterie At Night Series (no school day performances) | Rated PG-13, only 13 and older admitted

WHAT A FEELING!  Alexis Bowens, a female dynamo, is a true MANIAC: welder by day, dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company though, and nothing’s going to get in her way, not even a giant herd of fast-moving, virus-infected human cannibals – or her boyfriend’s lack of support. She will finally get her big break! Killing cannibalistic hoards is even better for her abs than Pilates.

 
By Christopher Paul Curtis, Adapted by Reginald Andre Jackson 

Bud, Not Buddy
April 9 – May 24, 2013   Appreciated by ages 8 through adult

It’s the Great Depression, and times could be hard for Bud after the loss of his mother.  But nothing can stop Bud (not ‘Buddy’) from finding the man he believes to be his father—jazz composer and musician Herman E. Calloway.  Based on the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King award-winning book.

By Bernard Waber
Adapted by Kevin Kling with music by Richard Gray

 Lyle the Crocodile Lyle the Crocodile 

June 18 – August 4, 2013  Appreciated by all ages

What a croc!  Loveable Lyle livens up a summer's day.   The Primm familiy is surprised to find a crocodile in the tub.  The multi-talented Lyle quickly becomes part of the family, but a nasty neighbor, Mr. Grumps, has it out for the reptile...