At first, here
is a little quiz for you. What do these four pictures have in common?
As you may
have guessed correctly, they are all characters in the movie “Tarzan”. I am
sure that nearly ever one of you knows the Disney version but for those who
have never seen it, here is a short summary.
A long time
ago, an English couple together with its baby son manages to escape from a
burning ship and find themselves on a coast somewhere in Africa. The region is
surrounded by rainforest and so the couple has to build a tree house in order
to survive.
A few days later, the female gorilla Kala hears the cries of an infant and finds the baby in the tree house. Moreover, she notices that the baby’s parents were killed by Sabor, a brutal leopard. Kala, who lost her own child, takes the baby back to her husband Kerchak. Kerchak, however, disapproves her decision and the new situation with the baby.
Kala calls the boy Tarzan, which means “white skin”, and raises him like a gorilla. He makes friends with the female(!) gorilla Terk and the elephant Tantor.
A few years later, Tarzan falls in love with the human girl Jane. She teaches him how to talk and how to behave as a human being.
A few days later, the female gorilla Kala hears the cries of an infant and finds the baby in the tree house. Moreover, she notices that the baby’s parents were killed by Sabor, a brutal leopard. Kala, who lost her own child, takes the baby back to her husband Kerchak. Kerchak, however, disapproves her decision and the new situation with the baby.
Kala calls the boy Tarzan, which means “white skin”, and raises him like a gorilla. He makes friends with the female(!) gorilla Terk and the elephant Tantor.
A few years later, Tarzan falls in love with the human girl Jane. She teaches him how to talk and how to behave as a human being.
You may
wonder now why this post is about a movie made in 1999 but I have a very simple
reason for doing it.
Last week I noticed a cheap offer to Hamburg on the internet and spontaneously booked it. Now I am really excited to go there because Hamburg is the only German city where you have the chance to watch the musical … TARZAN.
Since I saw a documentary about this particular musical it was my dream to go there and to watch it live on stage.
Last week I noticed a cheap offer to Hamburg on the internet and spontaneously booked it. Now I am really excited to go there because Hamburg is the only German city where you have the chance to watch the musical … TARZAN.
Since I saw a documentary about this particular musical it was my dream to go there and to watch it live on stage.
The musical
version was written by Phil Collins and the main character is played by
Alexander Klaws, who you may know. Alexander won the first season of the
casting show “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” and performs as Tarzan since
2008.
I am really,
really looking forward to going to Hamburg (and to Tarzan of course!) and will
post some photos of the musical afterwards.
EDIT: Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures in the theatre but the musical AWESOME! We had fantastic seats in the first row and got really close to Tarzan :)
EDIT: Unfortunately it was not allowed to take pictures in the theatre but the musical AWESOME! We had fantastic seats in the first row and got really close to Tarzan :)
I can't stop humming these two songs, so if you are interested simply click on the links.
Two Worlds
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