You Tarzan, me disgruntled -- but not as disgruntled as someone else would be if he were still alive. A chronology contained in a 2006 edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and the Apes notes that, when the first films adapted from Burroughs's books were released in 1918, the author was "frustrated by the simplistic way Hollywood treats Tarzan." Well, if he was irked by those flicks, he'd throw spears at the new musical that has been perpetrated in his name -- or sort of in his name, since "Edgar Rice Burroughs" appears only in minuscule type on the program's title page.

There, it's acknowledged that the live show Disney has fashioned from the company's 1999 animated feature film is "ba[...]