Differences From The Film and Musical
- The character of Tantor the elephant is cut from the musical.
- Instead of scaring the elephants off to make Kerchak angry, Tarzan fashions a spear making Kerchak think he intends to hurt the gorillas.
- Terk is male and an adult in the entire musical.
- Jane is attacked by a giant spider before being rescued by Tarzan and wasn't chased by baboons like in the film.
- Clayton is American in the musical instead of British like in the film
- Clayton seems to have more of a romantic attraction for Jane.
- Tarzan lets Clayton go, rather than having him fall and hang to his death.
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