The Wind in the Willows (musical) The Wind in the Willows (musical) The Wind in the Willows is a 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. The musical received its world premiere at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth in October 2016, before transferring to The Lowry in Salford and the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. The following year the production transferred to the West End's London Palladium, where it was filmed for cinema broadcast. In December 2011, it was revealed that a musical adaption of the 1908
Scottish literature in the nineteenth century Barrie (1860–1937), best known for his creation of Peter Pan, which helped develop the genre of fantasy. Also important in the development of fantasy was the work of George MacDonald (1824–1905) whose produced children's novels, including "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) and "At the Back of the North Wind" (1872), realistic novels of Scottish life, but also "Phantastes: A Fairie Romance for Men and Women" (1858) and later "Lilith: A Romance" (1895), which would be an important influence on the work of both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Scottish "national drama" emerged in the early 1800s,