Why people didn´t like Tarzan?- Page 2

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:26am

The ONLY things I had a problem with were the book and the costumes. That's about it. The music wasn't extremely tight (it seemed like a Phil Collins juke box musical) but what new musical is nowadays?

[DannyZuko]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 1:46am

They needed live apes.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 2:49am

Now I would definitley see that!!


I mean the live apes couldn't have made it any worse... could they?

[gertrudejessalynn]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 3:07am

Well, live animals throwing their own feces on the audience MIGHT have made it worse...

I just couldn't make myself see this show, and I LOVE Disney shows.

[justafan2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 9:33am

To me, it was like watching a boring show set inside a huge green box. At the end of the show, my husband said to me "well, there's 2 and 1/2 hours of my life that I won't get back".

[tgrabon]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 10:26am

The same word keeps coming up: boring and it was. Disney aimed to please children and adults and failed both groups. I remember getting up after curtain call and looking around the theatre. Several parents were gently waking their kids up.

[MarkRascati]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 11:49am

In the middle of the second act my friend turned to me and said "I'm getting really tired of this show"

that pretty summed up the night

[EdmundOG]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:11pm

I like how Tarzan has body hair and dreadlocks, which technically, all Tarzans should have had.

Wait... Where's his beard?

[TheFriarsDruggist]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:24pm

That's one of my least favorite Disney movies. So I was never too excited about the idea of it being a live show. But, I did get the soundtrack on iTunes and like quite a few of the songs. Mainly the ones sung by Tarzan. Josh Strickland has a great voice...So I like the music, just not the story.

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:30pm

X-Posted from "Tarzan Opinions" Thread:

I saw it during previews, so if you'd like to discount my opionion, go ahead:

I saw this show within the same week I saw Lestat and the Wedding Singer - Opening Night.

Considering it is Disney, I'd honestly have expected a little more magic to it. As much as the acrobatic feats are impressive, I take into consideration the fact that I can see a Cirque du Soleil show with much more heart and artistic inspiration and far less cheesey fluff humor and bad music. Once again, you can say this is a Disney show so such humor is expected, but I feel it could have been presented differently.

The music was mostly unimpressive to me. The songs felt as though they were supposed to be ending in some big bombastic note and then fell flat. To this day, I can't think of anything that stands out from the score, maybe "Who Better than Me," but moreso because of the riffing and hamming it up of Chester Gregory. I was longing for a huge flowing/belty reprise of "You'll Be in My Heart" by Merle which never came.

The cast is quite strong and does their best when playing gorillas and such, but I just couldn't connect with this show.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:35pm

Logan, I think you hit on something in the "magic" phrase.

Most of Disney's animated features have some magic in them. A fairy godmother, an evil witch, things enchanted. Of all of them in recent memory, Tarzan is probably the least magical. If they wanted a "little boy" musical, they should have gone with Aladdin.

[bertandrew2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:46pm

silvio,

you have to learn, the only thing people on the bdwayworld.com blog like are sondheim. Anything popular or family/tourist freindly is instantly bad as soon
as the press release is posted. Anything that based on a movie is never given
a change. And god forbid, anything Disney is instantly labled crap.

Thats how it goes in here silvio.

[logan0215]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 12:55pm

Um thats completely not true.

I'm absolutely stoked for Little Mermaid.

Great cast, seemingly phenomenal staging and a wonderful story.

To be completely honest, I haven't even seen "Tarzan" the movie all the way through.

Much of my Disney interest waned after "Toy Story."

[bertandrew2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 1:01pm

logan, you are the exception to the rule.

as soon as Disney announces ANYTHING it is met with evil words on these pages.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 1:03pm

^ Which is why I tend to stay out of those discussions. I love Disney. I realize it's not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I love it anyway. :)

Though that doesn't mean I'm enamored with everything they do. I was less than thrilled with Tarzan, though as I said earlier, I liked aspects of it.

Updated On: 8/3/07 at 01:03 PM

[JonathanGroffislove]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 3:34pm

I didn't get a chance to see it, but I wanted to, I listened to some of the music, and I liked it, but just the songs that were written for the movie, none of the new stuff Collins wrote for the show. But then again I have heard it got mixed reviews.

[bertandrew2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 4:14pm

"I heard it got mixed reviews"

Come on now! If everything that gets mixed reviews is bad, then there would be like 2 shows on broadway.

SEE FOR YOURSELF PEOPLE! DONT PRE JUDGE BECAUSE IT WAS A B-MOVIE MADE INTO
A MUSICAL. DONT PREJUDGE BECAUSE ITS DISNEY. DONT PREJUDGE BECAUSE IT GOT MIXED REVIEWS.

There are plenty of things that get GREAT reviews that suck.
In my opinon.

Luckily...I have an opinon

[Julian2]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 4:18pm

As I recall, not mixed. PANNED.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 5:51pm

Beats me. Mrs R & I enjoyed it throughly

Updated On: 8/3/07 at 05:51 PM

[James885]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 6:22pm

The first 10 minutes or so were outstanding. Then it went downhill from there. The book needed major work and I thought that the new songs added were very forgetable and bland. The only songs that stood out to me were "You'll Be In My Heart", "Who Better Than Me" and "Trashin' The Camp".

The areial stuff was cool, but it got boring and repetitive after a while. Josh and Jenn gave decent, but not knockout performances and the rest of the cast was good. As far as the set went, the shipwreck at the beginning was great but once you see that the set is just a giant green box with green ropes everywhere, its underwhelming. I expected better from the designer of the fabulous Mary Poppins set. It wasn't an awful show...it just wasn't that good!

Updated On: 8/3/07 at 06:22 PM

[WICKED rox my sox]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 9:40pm

i agree with henryt. the problem with this show is that the tarzan movie never stood out. beauty and the beast and the lion king are two of disney's best movies. when disney made movies after those two, they compared them with BATB and TLK. tarzan was never an amazing movie.
im a huge disney mogel, i one day hope to work for disney, so im always excited to see a disney bway show. and for tarzan, i was not excited in the slightest. but, i loved it. i thought the energy of the cast was so high, that it just got me in a good mood.
i also think because tarzan is not that well known of a disney movie you had tourists deciding to see TLK or BATB, two very known disney movies, and so they thought it was worth spending a lot of money on. tarzan was just too much of a risk to spend a lot of money on. as for new yorkers, a lot of people think the disney name means that its juvenile or corny, so there just wasnt a lot of wanting to see this show. and whoever wanted to see the show knew of how to see it for cheaper, meaning the show wasnt making a lot of money.
disney should have picked a more well known movie. they have a 45 minute aladdin adaptation for the stage in california, which is pretty good, but still needs some work. and look, everyone is excited for TLM because its a memorable and liked by many disney movie.

ah just my two cents!

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 8/3/07 at 11:21pm

bertandrew2, I think most of the people who hated it were the few who actually saw it.

I always thought skepticism and having to be won over was a New Yorker thing.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 8/4/07 at 1:48am

bertandrew2 - Not true. I love Disney shows. I loved Beauty and the Beast, I loved Mary Poppins, Lion King was okay, Aida was just "eh" and Tarzan was just boring. I can't wait for The Little Mermaid.

And to the movie comment: I was excited when I heard they were making The Wedding Singer into a musical. So don't even get me started with that. lol.

[me2]

Posted: 8/4/07 at 12:01pm

I linked below to my blog entry on the topic. I second it was just boring.
Broadway Blog: Overhauling Tarzan