After the success of Disney's 1999 animated version of Tarzan, the film's screenplay was adapted into a stage musical, with the songs
Phil Collins and
Mark Mancina wrote for the film being adapted for the stage version while
Collins also contributed several new songs to the show. After its Broadway run in 2006, Tarzan was staged in several cities in Europe and the Netherlands, and this album features the songs and score as performed by the original cast of the Hamburg production, which opened in the fall of 2008. ~ Mark Deming