"Afterall, if someone like Christopher Robin didn't believe in us, we might not be real either."POOH
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', covered in fur (or feathers) has been built lovingly many times over to get their look and movement just right.
Our 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 A.A. Milne), also appear in various ways throughout the show.
The Sherman Brothers wrote most of the music for the Winnie the Pooh franchise over the years, which performed by the Disney Studio chorus, were subsequently incorporated into the 1977 musical film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which is an amalgamation of the three previous Winnie the Pooh featurettes, the first two of which Walt Disney produced himself.
The score of the original movies, drew inspiration from Sergei Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf', and had different instruments to represent the characters: baritone horn for Pooh, bass clarinet for Eeyore, flute for Kanga, piccolo for Roo, clarinet for Rabbit, oboe for Piglet, and French horn and ocarina for Owl. The Sherman Brother's talent earned Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too a Grammy award for 'Best Album for Children' amongst many other awards.
With a new orchestral score, the music in our stage show pays homage to all the great Winnie the Pooh musical history at Disney, including even, the 1980's cartoon series. Like Pooh, it is the sort of music that you'll be left humming too when you leave the theatre. The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Piglet's Big Movie (2003), and The Tigger Movie released in 2000. The latter was the award-winning return of the Sherman Brothers writing for a Disney movie after a 28-year absence.
Like Pooh, it is all the sort of music that you'll be left humming too when you leave the theatre.
The first collection of stories about Winnie the Pooh written by A.A. Milne, illustrated by E.H. Shepard.
The second collection of stories about Winnie the Pooh written by A.A. Milne, illustrated by
E.H. Shepard.
The first Winnie the Pooh featurette by Disney.
Won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, awarded posthumously to Walt Disney.
Won the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children. Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
All three Disney Winnie the Pooh featurettes were combined into a full-length movie, featuring new bridging material and a new ending. It was always Walt Disney's intention to make a full-length feature.
Winner of two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program.
Pooh honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Debuts on stage 95 years after Winnie the Pooh's inception.
Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation is created and produced by Rockefeller Productions - a division of Rockefeller Studios, founded by Jonathan Rockefeller.
Founded in 2015 with the U.S. launch of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (Drama Desk nominee, New York Times Critics’ Pick), Rockefeller Studios began to proudly partner with the most recognizable and beloved brands in the industry to create new stage adaptations featuring their large-scale puppetry that enchants and delights.
Following its initial New York debut, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show - bringing to life four of Eric Carle’s timeless stories with the help of over 75 beautiful puppets - has gone on to be performed in over 20 countries to over 3 million children.
Rockefeller Studios’ subdivision Rockefeller Films adapted one of the stories - 10 Little Rubber Ducks - into an award-winning animated short film narrated by Bernadette Peters, which launched Rockefeller Films: lovingly crafted, detail-oriented film production bringing stories to the big (and small) screen.
In 2019, Rockefeller brought to the stage Paddington Gets in a Jam (New York Times Critics’ Pick). The slapstick comedy has gone on to tour internationally, bringing laughter and joy to audiences across the globe. Rockefeller Films also produced a live streamed performance of the show’s holiday version, Paddington Saves Christmas, commissioned by Studio Canal and available to audiences across the globe.
In 2021, Rockefeller Studios opened Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation, bringing the iconic Hundred Acre Wood friends to the stage in a brand-new story. The show has since performed extended runs in London, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as well as both U.S. and U.K. national tours.
That same year, they launched Rockefeller Sports & Events, collaborating with TEG Live to take the world of minigolf to infinity and beyond with Pixar Putt. The 18-hole course based on Disney and Pixar’s beloved filmography - including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Wall-E & more - has delighted putters in cities such as New York, Chicago, Houston, Denver, San Antonio, Fort Lauderdale & more.
Their most recent theatrical productions, Sesame Street the Musical, debuted in New York Fall of 2022, presenting The Muppets from Sesame Street’s official stage debut. Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby and all the fuzzy friends gather in a new musical featuring the show’s iconic music catalog, and new songs by Broadway favorites Tom Kitt and Helen Park.
In 2023, Rockefeller began producing their work in the U.K., beginning with the record-breaking London premiere of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation, and its subsequent, highly-anticipated U.K. and Ireland tour.
