Disney’s iconic Winnie the Pooh will travel from the forest to find a home off-Broadway this fall. Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Adaptation will bring together Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger, and the gang in a new production developed by Jonathan Rockefeller.
The show will feature songs by the Grammy-winning Sherman Brothers with additional music from A.A. Milne, and will be told using life-size puppetry. Richard and Robert Sherman have written music for Disney classics Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and The Aristocats.
Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Adaptation opens Oct. 21 at Time Square’s Theater Row. Tickets go on sale June 1. The news comes after this week’s announcement that Hadestown, the brooding musical about the underworld, has set its Broadway reopening date on Sept. 2, jumping ahead of such megahits as Hamilton and Wicked to position itself as the first show to welcome audiences on Broadway since the pandemic.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had said Broadway theaters could reopen Sept. 14 but producers “may make their own economic decision as to when they reopen.” They also will be allowed to decide their own entry requirements, like whether people must prove they’ve been vaccinated to attend a show.
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