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Where nature's concerned, Disney can get anything wrong. Barring one leopard and some human-size giant bugs, this jungle has no animals except Tarzan's gorilla family; presumably all the other species are under exclusive contract to The Lion King. Until the inevitable professor's inevitably crooked guide starts scheming, the story mainly consists of Tarzan's ape foster parents bickering about their adopted child. If you've tingled to the erotic component of the Tarzan-Jane story over decades of Johnny Weissmuller, Buster Crabbe, and other adult, sexy Tarzans, you won't be thrilled by the pallid teen romance here. As in Disney's misreading of Beauty and the Beast, most of it's about the heroine teaching her savage swain table manners. Everybody onstage works very hard, and I weep for them all, especially Chester Gregory II, who can swing and sing at the same time.