Preview: Disney’s Winnie the Pooh at Newcastle Theatre Royal

 

Younger audiences are in for a real treat at Newcastle Theatre Royal

 

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh

Newcastle Theatre Royal

Monday 7 – Wednesday 9 August 2023

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.

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.

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.

The role of Winnie the Pooh will be played by Benjamin Durham (Young Frankenstein) with the much-loved characters of Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga and Roo brought to life by an ensemble of performers, including Laura Bacon (Britain’s Got Talent, Star Wars), Harry Boyd (The Play That Goes Wrong, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story), Alex Cardall (Evita, The Osmonds: A New Musical), Chloe Gentles (Mamma Mia!, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Lottie Grogan (Smurfs Save Spring: The Musical, The Lips for Puppets with Guys) and Robbie Noonan (Avenue Q UK Tour, Jack and the Beanstalk).

Pooh meets his best friend Christopher Robin every day for honey after breakfast. But then one day, Christopher isn’t there and Pooh has to fend for himself and find some honey. Along the way, he encounters the likes of Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, Roo and Tigger too.

Oozing with sweet nostalgia and described as “the perfect family show”, Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation broke box office records for the biggest-ever advance sales at the Theatre Row Building when it opened in New York in 2021, and was met with rave reviews - with Time Out calling the show “Enchanting!” and BroadwayWorld hailing it as “magical, sweet as honey and full of humour”.

Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Adaptation is 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, Paddington Gets in a Jam and Sesame Street the Musical).

Tickets:

Winnie the Pooh plays Newcastle Theatre Royal Mon 7 – Wed 9 Aug 2023. Tickets can be purchased at www.theatreroyal.co.uk or from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 0191 232 7010.

Photos: Pamela Raith

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