The show opened Friday, July 9, 1999,[3][4] and featured the use of acrobatics, a live band, costume characters, and cast members on rollerskates.
The stage musical Journey Into The Jungle Book, occupied the Theater in the Wild at DinoLand USA in Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida.
[5] Journey Into The Jungle Book closed April 1999, and the Theater in the Wild began preparations for Tarzan.
in addition to Festival of the Lion King, and a number of other shows reduced the amount of performances each day.
[11] On a Disney World forum, January 11, 2006, an accident reportedly happened when aerial rigging snapped sending the Tarzan falling into the band.
[15] The music from the film, written by Phil Collins, was performed by a live band on stage.
Produced under the working title Tarzan’s Animal Friends, the episode was filmed in the swamps of Florida, but was never picked up.