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.