Winnie the Pooh
This beautiful, fresh stage adaptation is told with stunning life-sized puppetry through the eyes of the beloved characters, in a new story from the Hundred Acre Wood. has charmed children of all ages for nearly 100 years. Now see everyone’s favorite honey-craving bear in a new theatrical show.
Disney’s “Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation” will come to the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Sunday, Jan. 29, after successful runs that garnered rave reviews (“must-see,” “enchanting,” “magical” and “sweet as honey”) and broke records for advance ticket sales. The performance is presented by UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center.
Featuring the Sherman Brothers’ classic Grammy-Award-winning music with further songs by A.A. Milne, this beautiful and fresh stage adaptation is told with stunning life-sized puppetry through the eyes of the beloved characters, in a new story from the Hundred Acre Wood.
This event is suitable for all ages. ArtPlay Community Education will have a free family art activity in the lobby from 3:30-4:30 p.m. The performance is at 5 p.m. Tickets are $29. Buy four tickets for $100. Also available are VIP tickets, with premier seating and photos with characters, for $60 each. To purchase tickets, call 205-975-2787 or visit AlysStephens.org.
All the puppets featured in the show were designed and constructed within the walls of Rockefeller Productions by a talented team of artists, designers, patternmakers, builders, welders and fabricators. Inspired by Disney’s original character designs, and Christopher Robin’s real-life counterparts, each larger-than-life-size character, “full of fluff” and covered in fur (or feathers), has been built lovingly many times over to get their look and movement just right.
With a new orchestral score, the stage show’s music pays homage to all the great Winnie the Pooh musical history at Disney. The show features many of the original songs written by Robert and Richard Sherman, including “Winnie the Pooh,” “The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers” and “A Rather Blustery Day.” A few short samples of Pooh’s hums — songs Pooh makes up himself originally written by author Milne — also appear in various ways throughout the show.