Celebrate Winnie the Pooh Day with a performance from new stage show
You can celebrate national Winnie the Pooh Day today, Jan. 18, 2022, by watching a performance from the new Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation on ABC’s GMA3 at 1 p.m. ET (Noon Central and Pacific time)
Inspired by the beloved books by A. A. Milne and the classic Disney featurettes, Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation opened in New York in October 2021 and will continue through Jan. 30 before moving to Chicago’s Mercury Theater on March 15, 2022.
The stage adaptation is told with life-size puppetry, telling stories featuring characters that have played iconic roles in the lives of children for generations. Accompanying the magical, modern narrative is an original score from Nate Edmondson, which features some of the songs written for the animated feature from The Sherman Brothers’, including “Winnie the Pooh,” “The Blustery Day,” “The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers” and “Whoop-De-Dooper Bounce,” and A.A. Milne’s “The More It Snows” (featuring music by Carly Simon) and “Sing Ho”, a new arrangement.
The New York cast and creative team include Jake Bazel (TV: “Sesame Street,” Off-Broadway: Paddington Gets in a Jam ) as Pooh, Chris Palmieri (TV: Emmy nominated “Snug’s House”) as Tigger, Kirsty Moon (Rockefeller Productions’ The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Paddington Gets in a Jam) and Kristina Dizon (National Tour: Sesame Street) alternating the roles of Piglet/Roo and Kanga, Emmanuel Elpenord (Rockefeller Productions’ The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show) as Eeyore, Rabbit & Owl, Kaydn Kuioka, Max Lamberg, and Cooper Lantz share the role of Christopher Robin and Sebastiano Ricci is the understudy. The creative team includes Jamie Roderick (Lighting Design), Lindsay McWilliams (Costume Designer), Nate Edmondson (Original Music and Orchestrations), Matthew Lish (Lead Puppet Builder), David Goldstein (Set Designer), and Hannah Delmore (Production Stage Manager).
