Spring Break
Pooh Sings At Jorgensen
Anna Blaise
Issue date: 9/24/07 Section: Focus
The lights were dim, the audience was excited and the children couldn't wait to see their favorite bear on stage performing. Winnie the Pooh and his friends came to the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday afternoon in a musical presented by Bank of America Children's Series.
A full audience comprised of mostly parents and their children welcomed the cast. The show started with Pooh and Piglet singing; then, suddenly Rabbit interrupts to break a rather disturbing news: Kanga, the new kangaroo, and her son are in the forest and they intend on taking over. So a plan is formed to force Kanga out of the forest. Pooh, Rabbit and Piglet will kidnap Kanga's son and demand the latter come out of the forest.
The plan is as follows: "Step one, Winnie distracts Kanga with poetry," says Rabbit. "Step two, Piglet [who will be disguised as the baby] will take Baby Roo's place. And step three, we say ahaha when Kanga asks for her son back."
Throughout the hour-long play, many songs were sung and the children interacted well with the cast. One clever strategy used in the play was repeating the plans of Pooh and his friends to force Kanga out of the forest. Most of the characters of "Winnie the Pooh" were present except for Tigger, but, the audience seemed to enjoy the musical.
Kate Cox, a Mansfield resident, brought her two daughters Allison, 8, and Olivia, 9, along with a friend of the family, Olivia Baker, to see the show. Everyone said they enjoyed it.
"I liked it a lot because there was a lot of dancing," said Allison.
Cox said that, although the musical was different than the original "Winnie the Pooh," it followed the same theme.
Laine Kingo, a Columbia resident, agreed.
"It is almost the same, but it's a little different," she said. "There was some variations because it was on stage but overall this was a well done show."
As the story unfolds, many other plans were revealed besides the one to force Kanga out of the forest. Eeyore, the donkey, lost his tail and Pooh and friends helped find it. Then, another project was to trap a bad animal using honey, but that plan failed. At the end of the show, Kanga and Rabbit talked through their differences and Kanga reassured Rabbit that she is very friendly and she will not take over the forest. She then invited everyone to dinner and urged Rabbit to apologize to Piglet and Pooh for going through with the plan to hide her daughter.
Melissa Cummings, a West Hartford resident and UConn alumna said she and her daughter enjoyed the show.
"It was very entertaining," she said. "It held my daughter's attention and the cast was very animated."
Contact Anna Blaise at
Anna.Blaise@UConn.edu.
A full audience comprised of mostly parents and their children welcomed the cast. The show started with Pooh and Piglet singing; then, suddenly Rabbit interrupts to break a rather disturbing news: Kanga, the new kangaroo, and her son are in the forest and they intend on taking over. So a plan is formed to force Kanga out of the forest. Pooh, Rabbit and Piglet will kidnap Kanga's son and demand the latter come out of the forest.
The plan is as follows: "Step one, Winnie distracts Kanga with poetry," says Rabbit. "Step two, Piglet [who will be disguised as the baby] will take Baby Roo's place. And step three, we say ahaha when Kanga asks for her son back."
Throughout the hour-long play, many songs were sung and the children interacted well with the cast. One clever strategy used in the play was repeating the plans of Pooh and his friends to force Kanga out of the forest. Most of the characters of "Winnie the Pooh" were present except for Tigger, but, the audience seemed to enjoy the musical.
Kate Cox, a Mansfield resident, brought her two daughters Allison, 8, and Olivia, 9, along with a friend of the family, Olivia Baker, to see the show. Everyone said they enjoyed it.
"I liked it a lot because there was a lot of dancing," said Allison.
Cox said that, although the musical was different than the original "Winnie the Pooh," it followed the same theme.
Laine Kingo, a Columbia resident, agreed.
"It is almost the same, but it's a little different," she said. "There was some variations because it was on stage but overall this was a well done show."
As the story unfolds, many other plans were revealed besides the one to force Kanga out of the forest. Eeyore, the donkey, lost his tail and Pooh and friends helped find it. Then, another project was to trap a bad animal using honey, but that plan failed. At the end of the show, Kanga and Rabbit talked through their differences and Kanga reassured Rabbit that she is very friendly and she will not take over the forest. She then invited everyone to dinner and urged Rabbit to apologize to Piglet and Pooh for going through with the plan to hide her daughter.
Melissa Cummings, a West Hartford resident and UConn alumna said she and her daughter enjoyed the show.
"It was very entertaining," she said. "It held my daughter's attention and the cast was very animated."
Contact Anna Blaise at
Anna.Blaise@UConn.edu.
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