| rdfs:comment | - Milne extracted the adventures of Mr. Toad (which form only about half of the original book) because they lent themselves most easily to being staged. Milne loved Grahame's book, which is one of the reasons he decided to adapt it. The play has four main characters: Rat, Badger, Mole, and Toad. Toad's caravan and car adventures are included, as well as his imprisonment, escape, and subsequent fight with the weasels and stoats to regain his home with the help of his friends. Although not a musical, the play contains six songs.
- As the title indicates, the plot centers on the adventures of Mr. Toad, although they only make up about a quarter of the text of The Wind in the Willows, because Milne found them to be more easily adaptable for the stage than other parts of the novel. The play includes Toad's journey with Rat and Mole in a horse-drawn caravan, his obsession with motor cars that leads to his imprisonment and his escape from jail. The play reaches a climax with the "Battle for Toad Hall" in which Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger drive out the ferrets, stoats and weasels from the Wild Wood who have taken over Toad's home.
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| abstract | - Milne extracted the adventures of Mr. Toad (which form only about half of the original book) because they lent themselves most easily to being staged. Milne loved Grahame's book, which is one of the reasons he decided to adapt it. The play has four main characters: Rat, Badger, Mole, and Toad. Toad's caravan and car adventures are included, as well as his imprisonment, escape, and subsequent fight with the weasels and stoats to regain his home with the help of his friends. Although not a musical, the play contains six songs. Its first production was at the Lyric Theatre in London on 17 December 1929.
- As the title indicates, the plot centers on the adventures of Mr. Toad, although they only make up about a quarter of the text of The Wind in the Willows, because Milne found them to be more easily adaptable for the stage than other parts of the novel. The play includes Toad's journey with Rat and Mole in a horse-drawn caravan, his obsession with motor cars that leads to his imprisonment and his escape from jail. The play reaches a climax with the "Battle for Toad Hall" in which Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger drive out the ferrets, stoats and weasels from the Wild Wood who have taken over Toad's home. The main characters in Toad of Toad Hall, as in The Wind in the Willows, are Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger. The play features some human characters who are not in Grahame's novel, a girl named Marigold and her nurse. The play opens with an prologue in which Marigold speaks into a daffodil, pretending it is a telephone, and asks to speak to characters from the story. Her nurse is rather concerned that the girl thinks that she can speak to animals as if they were human beings. The play ends with an epilogue in which the main animal characters walk past a sleeping Marigold.
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