After an unusually long wait, the Wagon Wheel Theatre, Warsaw, has received permission to announce its season opening production for Summer 2011.
The regional premiere of Disney's "Tarzan" will kick off the summer season, June 5-15.
This show is straight from Broadway and did not tour. Only one other regional theater in America received permission to do the show at this time, The Tuacahn Center for the Arts in Ivins, Utah. The Wagon Wheel is ecstatic to provide its audiences with the Midwest's first glimpse of this musical.
Based on the 1999 animated film, the musical hosts the familiar story set to music with a score by pop/rock musical legend Phil Collins. Audiences will recognize the smash-hit song "You'll Be in My Heart" as it sat at the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Hit List for 19 weeks and can still be heard on radio all across the country.
Featuring some "high-flying" staging, the artistic staff at the Wagon Wheel has great plans for its treatment of the Tony-Award-winning musical.
Disney's "Tarzan" will round out a season that includes three shows never before seen at the Wagon Wheel in "Hairspray" and Rodgers and Hammerstein's "State Fair". The theater is also bringing back three audience favorites in "Big River", "Lend Me a Tenor" and "Always, Patsy Cline".Season Tickets for the 2011 summer season are available and can be purchased by calling the Wagon Wheel Box Office at 574-267-8041 or toll free at 866-823-2618. Single tickets for all shows also may be purchased on the website at wagonwheeltheatre.com
