In 2019, it was reported that there had been plans to adapt the Winnie the Pooh stories into a Broadway musical with a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), but those plans were put on hold when Albee became busy but then the plans are assumed to be untimely canceled. Then Jonathan Rockefeller suggested to Disney they could do a off-Broadway musical of the bear but they disagreed. But Jonathan didn't give up. He worked with a bunch of people working hard to make a good pitch for the show. After so much work they agreed to let them do it. So in May 2021, Disney Theatrical Productions announced that the Winnie the Pooh stories would be adapted as a musical, utilizing puppetry to portray the characters.
Original Broadway Concept Art (by Josh Pilch)[]
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https://nypost.com/2019/04/11/why-disneys-winnie-the-pooh-and-dumbo-never-hit-broadway/