Any chance in Hell TARZAN will tour?

Or is it just too impossible without a major overhaul of the show?
How much longer will it last on Broadway?
Thoughts?

Yes, it will tour. But right now they are preparing the first international production, to open in Amsterdam later this year.

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A Tarzan tour would be hell.

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theyd certainly have to rethink adult tarzans first entrance and terk's second act entrance.

If you think Tarzan won't tour than you must be smoking something good. It's DISNEY! $$$

I would think that the inflatable set would be easy to tour. And I'm sure they would be able to tour enough of the flying rigging to retain most of the spectacle. I mean how many years did they tour Peter Pan. I'm sure they could easily find a new way for Tarzan to make his first entrance that would still impress.

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I just don't see Disney not touring anything they do.

I'm sure they will find some way to make it work.

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Actually SeanMartin, I would like to clarify something. The PP tour that was out for many years required only a day (sometimes a day plus a half day) for setup before it was ready for the actors by 4 PM on opening day in any city. (I was on the show). The setup for other productions (regional, community and the like) did/does require longer in the area of 3 days, but that is not so much about the installation of hardware, but to "train" the locals, most if not all of whom have neither flown or done the flying.
That being said, TARZAN is indeed very complicated and would presumably require some sort of secondary flying "grid" that would travel with the show. It is do-able, but it is very iffy about how this would size into theatres around the country, and that is the real issue, I believe. (Someone with further knowledge of this please chime in).
Friday nights TARZAN performance was stopped mid way through Act 1 for about seven minutes because there was a snag with the first Tarzan entrance from the back. It's very complicated, but if anyone can make it work for the road it's the Disney folk!

They gotta try to make some of those MILLIONS back somehow.
It's not making $ on Broadway.
TARZAN I mean.

And POPPINS is advertising lot's of availablity in JAN and FEb.

Updated On: 1/7/07 at 09:28 AM

It will tour Hell before it tours on Earth. God bless the tour crew . . .

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It will only be touring in purgatory.

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My prediction is that they'll try to fix the show with a new director, and then tour that version.

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Yes, Peter Pan loads in VERY fast. The standard rig for that show includes one track and three pendulum points and that is it. Fast in and fast out. The national tours usually have a one day turn around for the ENTIRE production. Local stagings, as have been said, only require longer to train local jobbers who work with the equipment and having the cast learn w3hat to do. Actually, I think the rig for Tarzan wouldn't be that hard to tour since the show is set and frozen and most of the rig is self contained and automated. They would need to rethink some things due to the VAST overuse of that damn trapdoor/elevator, but it is very doable.

Lizzya, once again, you are wrong. They were casting for the international production and for several ensemble tracks. In addition, every production contract show must hold auditions every six months regardless of anything.

Moving on

actually no, you are wrong, they are casting the national tour because they had auditions for it. It said in the breakdown "national tour, to begin in San Francisco early 2008"