The Iola Community Theatres staging of A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail begins tonight at 7:30 at the ICT Warehouse. A matinee show will be on offer Sunday and then again Dec. 15 and 16 beginning at 2 p.m.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and are available through the Iola Community Theatre Facebook page and at the door. Children two and under enter free. Come for the family-friendly show, stay for the cookies and hot cocoa.
THE MUSICAL tells of the night that Winnie-the-Pooh and all his anthropomorphic friends organized a search party intended to locate Eeyores mislaid tail. In their good-humored attempts to reunite the depressed donkey with his missing appendage, a fable of friendship and compassion takes shape. This well-meant production involves the whole Pooh posse: Winnie-the-Pooh, of course, that harmless honey junkie from the Hundred-Acre Wood; Piglet, his timorous sidekick; the uptight, nose-twitcher, Rabbit; the buoyant Tigger; the maternal Kanga and her little one, Roo; the sad-eyed Eeyore; the absent-minded Owl; and, finally, the human child whose imagination set this vast menagerie into motion, Christopher Robin. Dramatic Publishing, the company that produced the book for the show, calls it a very special and enchanting musical suitable for any occasion though surely, of all the occasions, A Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas Tail works best at Christmas.
The ICT cast includes: Kendall Glaze as Christopher Robin, Cole Moyer as Eeyore, Layla Newkirk as Piglet, Jacob Cooper as Rabbit, Drew Shepard as Tigger, Sheila Lampe as both Owl and Kanga, Stephanie Fees as Roo, and, finally, Alison Fees as the eponymous Pooh.
