Jungle Book

Hold onto your seats as the Tony Award winning director Zimmerman, brings to the stage one of your favorite childhood classic stories by Rudyard Kipling, in the form of a music-filled manifestation. Prepare to attend the Jungle Book showcase by grabbing cheap Jungle Book tickets today to watch a production that will bring pleasure to audiences of all ages.
 
You now have a chance to plan a night out with the entire family as the director and adapter, Mary Zimmerman prepares to recreate Mowgli’s adventures in the Jungle, using the original score from the Disney feature film while also adding several new surprises. Scheduled to be held at the Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre situated in Chicago, this musical production will enchant audiences and display a dazzling rendition of the classic tale.
 
Having created several musical productions such as Metamorphoses, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Journey to the West, The Odyssey, Mirror to the Invisible World and Arabian Nights, Zimmerman’s plays have been featured as regular and special shows at the most prestigious theatrical locations. She has been invited by Circle in the Square, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music, About Face Theatre and Huntington Theatre Company to stage several of her most well recognized theatrical productions. Zimmerman currently works as the Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre as its artistic director, while also working as a visiting faculty member at the Northwestern University in its Performance Studies’ Department. Apart from this Zimmerman is also currently an executive member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company. This playwright has received twenty Joseph Jefferson Awards for the works she created after completing her Doctorate in Performance Studies from the Northwestern University, a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and a Tony Award in 2002 for her rendition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses for the category of “Best Direction of a Play”.
 
Apart from creating musical productions, Zimmerman has also experimented with opera, presenting her debut work called Galileo Galilei that came forward in 2002. With music provided by Philip Glass, this opera ran at the Goodman Theatre, after which in 2007, a new series of the same production were inaugurated at the Metropolitan Opera. She also engaged in creating another opera for this opera house that was inspired by Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. At present Zimmerman is involved in directing a musical called “Jungle Book” that has been adapted from the collection of stories that Kipling wrote back in 1894 and the Disney classic presentation of 1967.
 
Zimmerman has stated that the score that has been used from the Disney film has been modified in such a way that it is recognizable to the audiences and at the same time brings to the stage beautiful and new sounds that pleasantly surprise the crowd. Zimmerman has collaborated with Richard Sherman, who composed the original songs for the movie, to bring forth these new sounds, so as to avoid straying from the essence of the original score.
 
The Albert Ivar Goodman Theatre is inviting audiences to attend its upcoming presentation of Zimmerman’s Jungle Book as it will be held amongst the eight productions that will be presented for its 2013 season. Their season will be inaugurated by the showcase of Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams, moving onto presenting musicals such as Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men, Teddy Ferra, The Happiest Song Play Last, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark and not to forget, the Jungle Book. This theatre company that was founded in 1925 is one of Chicago’s oldest nonprofit theatrical organizations. Holding several notable productions, the most popular one being the annual A Christmas Carol theatrical presentation that has been going on since 1970, the facility has won countless Joseph Jefferson Awards, apart from receiving the “Regional Theatre Tony Award” in 1992.
 
Watch Goodman Theatre’s forthcoming show that is a part of their 2013 season this year by attending the Jungle Book showcase, simply by buying cheap Jungle Book tickets that are now available for sale at the best prices.