The Wind in the Willows | |
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The Original Musical Poster
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Music | George Stiles |
Lyrics | Anthony Drewe |
Book | Julian Fellowes |
Basis |
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame |
Productions | 2016 Pre-West End Tryout 2017 West End |
The Wind in the Willows is a 2016 musical written by Julian Fellowes, with music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, based on the novel of the same name, written by Kenneth Grahame.
In December 2011,[1] Jamie Hendry revealed that he had commissioned a musical adaption of the 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows with a book[2] by Julian Fellowes and music and lyrics to be penned by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.[2] The trio first worked together on the West End and Broadway musical Mary Poppins, and then again on the revised version of Half a Sixpence, which opened at Chichester Festival Theatre followed by a West End run in 2016.[3] The trio are also reunited with director Rachel Kavanaugh who directed Half a Sixpence as well as directing Stiles and Drewe's Peter Pan A Musical Adventure at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2007 and 2008.