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Toad of Toad Hall
Toad of Toad Hall is a play written by A. A. Milne, the first of several dramatisations of Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel "The Wind in the Willows", with incidental music by Harold Fraser-Simson.
Its first production was at the Lyric Theatre, London on 17 December 1929.
Conception.
Milne extracted the adventures of Mr. Toad, which make up about half of the original book, because they lent themselves most easily to being staged. Milne loved Grahame's book,
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