Disney’s WINNIE THE POOH THE MUSICAL

Created and directed by Jonathan Rockefeller

Featuring music by The Sherman Brothers with additional songs by A.A. Milne

GRAND OPERA HOUSE YORK

Tue 1 -Wed 2 August 2023

Photos of Pooh & friends in York by Charlie Kirkpatrick

Jake Bazel is a puppeteer, voice actor, writer and coach with over a decade of experience working in children’s media. Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood, a new adventure is about to happen. 

A.A. Milne’s beloved characters, Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin and their best friends Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit and Owl (and Tigger too!), will all arrive on stage in a beautifully-crafted musical stage adaptation. In a new story from the Hundred Acre Wood, this fresh stage adaptation is told with impressive life-size puppetry, exciting new stories and featuring characters that have played iconic roles in the lives of children for generations.

Accompanying the modern narrative is an original score by Nate Edmondson, featuring some of the Grammy award-winning songs written by the Sherman Brothers for the original animated features, including Winnie the Pooh, The Blustery Day, The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers and Whoop-De-Dooper Bounce, plus A.A. Milne’s The More It Snows (featuring music by Carly Simon) and Sing Ho in a new arrangement. 

WinniethePooh:TheNewMusicalAdaptationis developed and presented by renowned family entertainment creator Jonathan Rockefeller (whose spectacular puppetry is omnipresent in the acclaimed productions of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show and Paddington Gets in a Jam). Inspired by the beloved books by A. A. Milne and the classic Disney featurettes, the production was welcomed in New York in 2021, where it broke theatre box office records for the largest advance, with rave reviews.