More than 90 years ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs introduced the character of Tarzan to the world in the October 1912 issue of All Story Magazine. Disney released the animated film version of Tarzan in 1999. The musical features a book by David Henry Hwang adapted from the film's screenplay by Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker and Noni White and based on the novel, Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Phil Collins, who provided songs for the film, has written eight new songs for the stage Tarzan.
World premiere: USA - Richard Rodgers Theatre, Broadway, May 10, 2006.
European premiere: The Netherlands - Circustheater, Scheveningen, April 15, 2007.
A shipwreck leaves an infant orphaned on the West African shore. The helpless baby is taken under the protection of a gorilla tribe and becomes part of their family. When he eventually encounters his first human - Jane Porter, a curious young explorer - both their worlds are transformed forever.
ACT ONE
- Two Worlds
Voice of Tarzan and Ensemble
- You'll Be In My Heart
Kala and Ensemble
- Jungle Funk
Instrumental
- Who Better Than Me?
Young Tarzan and Terk
- No Other Way
Kerchak
- I Need to Know
Young Tarzan
- Son of Man
Terk and Ensemble
- Sure As Sun Turns to Moon
Kala and Kerchak
- Waiting for This Moment
Jane and Ensemble
- Different
Tarzan
ACT TWO
- Trashin' the Camp
Terk and Ensemble
- Like No Man I've Ever Seen
Jane and Professor Porter
- Strangers Like Me
Tarzan, Jane, and Ensemble
- For the First Time
Tarzan and Jane
- Who Better Than Me? (Reprise)
Terk
- Everything That I Am
Tarzan, Kala, Young Tarzan, and Ensemble
- You'll Be In My Heart (Reprise)
Tarzan and Kala
- Sure As Sun Turns to Moon (Reprise)
Kala
- Two Worlds (Finale)
Tarzan, Jane, and Ensemble
