Full Cast for TARZAN Announced

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 3:58pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/96720.html

[liotte]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:00pm

Even though we knew this for months already, hooray!!

Can't wait to see the show! I have my ticket for first preview!

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:09pm

We did not know the entire ensemble.

Yay for Merle Dandridge and Anastasia McCleskey, who is currently on tour with Hairspray.

[DBillyP]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:11pm

Um, that Tarzan guy is hot.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:11pm

Merle was the best Joanne i have ever seen....what a voice!!! love her...i wish she would have been cast in the RENT movie.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:15pm

aww Merle!! I have to see this now---and yea Tarzan is hott.

[blaxx]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:20pm

Tarzan is WAY too hot...
I'll have to see it twice, once to see him, another to pay attention to everything else.

[SayitSomehow]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:20pm

Anyone knows when this officially opens?

[liotte]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:22pm

First preview March 24, opens May 10.

[Corine2]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:22pm

I want to take Jackson to this for his 5th birthday.

[washu2002]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:30pm

So Chester Gregory plays Turk. Am I the only one who's disgusted by this? Are we regressing to the 1920s?

[zepka102]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:30pm

before everyone kept saying this was gonna be a bad show... not by the looks of this cast. i can't wait!

[Tom1071]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:36pm

I'm trying to remember him from American Idol but can't.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:40pm

Ah cool, Tim Jerome. Loved him in Phantom. So that's why they're bringing the tour Firmin to the Broadway production.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:44pm

"So Chester Gregory plays Turk. Am I the only one who's disgusted by this? Are we regressing to the 1920s?"

What's the big deal?

[TBone]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:45pm

I'm excited for Celina Carvajal!!

[iheartcheyenne123]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:48pm

that Tarzan guy is hottt..but i can't remember him from American Idol either. YAY for Jenn Gamb!! can't wait to see it!

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:48pm

Saw Strickland and Gambatese at the presentation. I already loved Jenn, and Strickland wasn't too bad. And not too bad on the eyes either. And it all looks pretty cool. And very happy to see Donnie in another show, thought he was great in Taboo.

[washu2002]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:50pm

You asked:
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"So Chester Gregory plays Turk. Am I the only one who's disgusted by this? Are we regressing to the 1920s?"

What's the big deal?
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Black guy plays ape. Just as whites are used to seeing him. Not only an ape, but a sidekick ape there to support the white lead. Total throwback.
Updated On: 12/8/05 at 04:50 PM

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:55pm

Josh should have my babies.

[anne3]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 4:58pm

He was one of the guys they said looked like Ryan Seacrest...

[jasobres]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 5:01pm

Wait a minute, isn't Terk a girl? Because SHE was voiced by Rosie O'Donnell in the movie.

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 5:04pm

Well,if Josh is even half as talented as his looks, I think I may have found my new Broadway crush !!!! The guy is GORGEOUS !!!!
Updated On: 12/8/05 at 05:04 PM

[sweeneyfan]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 5:06pm

Hmmm... no one seems to mind that the "bad guy" in Lion King is white (Scar) and the buffoonish sidekicks(Zazu, Pumbaa and Timon) to the black heroes (Simba & Mufasa)are white. Or that all of the "bad" characters in TARZAN are also white...

Give me a break.

If they cast a white guy in the role and made him look like an ape would you cry that he was in black face. It's a no win, I guess.

I don't suppose instead of bit**ing about it, we could applaud the fact that more minorities will be on Broadway for years to come (TARZAN will, like all Disney shows, run for years).

And let's not forget, no one made Chester Gregory audition OR accept the role. I'm sure, from all that I've read about him as a person, that if it were objectionable he'd not be participating.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 5:09pm

Don't consider this an extension of the movie. its a whole new show. Strickland was on Idol? When?