Director Nina Stevenson is at it again, with her company Pied Piper’s school holiday production of Madagascar JR – A Musical Adventure, a family show with all the characters from the movie.

The show features all the friends who escape from their home in New York’s Central Park Zoo, and small audience members will see their favourite animals – Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the hip hip Hippo and Mason the Monkey – on stage set against an animated backdrop.

Choreographer Julie Heather has been having special fun directing the plotting penguins as they bound on to the stage.

Canberra College Performing Arts Centre, Woden, April 19-26.