Synopsis : 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. The original tale first appeared in cheap pulp fiction magazines around the turn of the 20th century, sporting titles such as "Weird Tales" and "Amazing Stories," and the fiction that was published was usually serialized so that people would feel compelled to buy the next issue. Except for "Tarzan. The cost was 15 cents. This odd story, neither fantasy nor science fiction, was a fabulous best-seller that endures today, not only in jokes -- as in Me Tarzan, you Jane -- but in cartoons, children's books, and now as an entertaining Disney spectacle.

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The classic tale is now a Broadway musical! When a shipwreck leaves an infant orphaned on the West African shore, the helpless baby Tarzan 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. Additional fees may apply. For events with a discounted price, no coupon or promo code is necessary to purchase tickets. Let Me Know! Continue to rediscover the magic of live events by signing up for a Goldstar account with Facebook.
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The tree-surfing title character is not the only creature sailing through the air in "Tarzan," the giant, writhing green blob with music that opened last night at the Richard Rodgers Theater. Apes, flowers, moths, a snake, a leopard, a hut-size spider, two shipwrecked Victorians, an English botanist in her underwear: no sooner do such figures make their entrances in this restless adaptation of the Disney animated film than they find themselves pulled into some kind of airborne aerobics. Almost everybody and everything swings in "Tarzan. Momentous events — from fatal fights with evil animals to Freudian struggles between parents and children of two species — occur regularly in the course of this retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs's evergreen adventure novel. But any tension or excitement is routinely sabotaged by overkill and diffuseness.