Sleeth, honey, you just keep asking these questions and staying as sweet as you are. If you want to see Tarzan, I hope you aren't disappointed. Enjoy it. I was walking past the theatre before a matinee, and Strickland was outside signing autographs. He seems to be a genuinely personable man, and that chest! Yum, yum!
I hope, though, that you open yourself up to some of the great classics of musical theatre. I'd recommend reading the Ethan Mordden book on Rodgers and Hammerstein. You'll wish you could see the ones that don't get produced, like Allegro or Me and Juliet. Ken Mandelbaum's Not Since Carrie is a bible of the musical theatre.
You can get it from your library or from Amazon,com, and it's worth every penny. I keep it at my bedside table, because I'm always reading and re-reading it. Craig Zadan's book, Sondheim and Company is exquisite, too.
You may want to read the bios of Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman (Teichmann book),
the excellent Margot Peters book on the Lunts, Design for Living, and the bio of Lorenz Hart (I forget the author, but it's a good biography). You will get such a strong sense of the theatre we've missed by being born too late. These were the people who established the standards of American Theatre and need to be remembered.
While you're in New York this summer, you need to go to the Museum of the City of New York on 103rd and 5th Avenue in Spanish Harlem. There's a theatre collection on the third floor that's a must see. They have Mary Martin's costumes from The Sound of Music and South Pacific, Yul Brynner's from The King and I, and in the past have done displays on George M. Cohan and Show Boat.
I'm going this week and plan to see the Alvin Colt exhibit. He designed Guys and Dolls. There's also a lovely toy museum on that floor.
Anyway, like I said, you just keep asking questions and if you're interested in the theatre as I am (I'm 55 and rather burned out by a lot of it, but hope to see new things all the time), you'll learn a lot. Best wishes.
NYC Visitor and Broadway Fan
