TARZAN is officially cast

Full Casting Announced for 'TARZAN, The Broadway Musical'
Disney Theatrical Productions has announced the full cast for TARZAN, The Broadway Musical.
The production will star:

• Josh Strickland as Tarzan
• Jenn Gambatese as Jane
• Merle Dandridge as Kala
• Shuler Hensley as Kerchak
• Chester Gregory II as Terk
• Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter
• Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton, and
• Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

TARZAN will open May 10 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre; the theater is located at 226 W. 46th St. in New York. Previews begin March 24.
Here are the creative team members:

• Bob Crowley (Aida, Carousel), a two-time Tony Award® winner, will direct and design scenery and costumes for TARZAN
• Phil Collins, an Oscar® and seven-time Grammy® Award-winner, wrote the music and lyrics, expanding his songs for Disney's film into a complete theatre score
• David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), Tony Award-winner, wrote the book, based on the novel, Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and the film, Tarzan
• Meryl Tankard did the choreography, with aerial design by Pichón Baldinu (De La Guarda)
• Natasha Katz (Aida), Tony Award-winner, designed the lighting
• John Shivers is the sound designer
• Paul Bogaev, music producer/vocal arrangements, and
• Doug Besterman, orchestrations.
  

"The creative team for TARZAN has re-imagined, and in some cases, reinvented characters from the original Edgar Rice Burroughs novel and Disney's animated film," said Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions. "We hope to bring a fresh perspective to the Tarzan legend, and we think that we have found a wonderful cast to make these roles their own."