Productions1 on Broadway
| 2006 | Richard Rodgers Theatre Original. May 10, 2006 · Bob Crowley | 486 performances |
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Recordings 5 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Tarzan matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature17 passages
Disney Theatrical Productions attempted a third success on Broadway with a stage adaptation of Disney’s 1999 animated film Tarzan. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p331
In September 1921 George Broadhurst brought his American version of the British play Tarzan of the Apes to his theatre. The New York Times critic labeled the show "rather astonishing." A British actor, Ronald Adair, played Tarzan, and there were real lions and monkeys onstage, but the Ape Man managed to swing from tree… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p117
Harry Reichenbach put a live lion in a midtown hotel room in order to publicize the 1921 production of Tarzan of the Apes; however, the play managed only 13 performances. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p533
They set the pace; more in the same vein followed: Tarzan (2006) Mary Poppins (2006), The Little Mermaid (2008). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p671
Disney followed Beauty with The Lion King, Tarzan (2006), Mary Poppins (2006), The Little Mermaid (2008), Newsies (2012), and Aladdin (2014) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p172
Disney returned to Broadway in May 2006 with another live-action version of a animated film, this time Tarzan , with music and lyrics by Phil Collins. Vine-swinging acrobats fill the stage with spectacular aerial feats and ‘American Idol’ veteran Josh Strickland made his Broadway debut in the title role. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p356
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