With a history of infusing classic tales with fresh theatricality, auteur-director Mary Zimmerman ("Metamorphoses") is both a natural choice to adapt a Disney film to the stage and a nearly impossible one. Her writing process, accomplished collaboratively in rehearsals, is always unpredictable and thus risky. So "The Jungle Book" reps a "special arrangement" between Disney and... Read more »
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PM on July 1, 2013