Westlake High Theatre presents Disney's Tarzan
Mar 31, 2025 04:04PM ● By Kelsey Swire
The Westlake High Theatre presents Disney's Tarzan on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Based on Disney’s epic 1999 animated musical adventure, TARZAN is a high-flying, family musical that features songs by award-winning pop artist Phil Collins, including the Grammy and Oscar-winning ballad, “You’ll Be In My Heart.” Acclaimed playwright Henry Hwang’s book adapts both the Disney film and the classic tale by novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs. Disney’s TARZAN tells the story of a helpless baby, orphaned by a shipwreck on a West African shore, who becomes part of a gorilla family. As the only human in the tribe, young Tarzan grows up striving for acceptance from his ape father while struggling with his uniqueness. When he eventually encounters his first human–Jane Porter, a curious young botanist from London–both their worlds are transformed forever.
The April 17th performance begins at 7:00PM and will be held at the Westlake High Theatre located at 1000 Garden Drive in Westlake, LA. Tickets are $10.00 per person and can be purchased at the box office on the day of the performance beginning at 6:00PM. For more information contact Kerry Onxley at (337) 217-4950 or [email protected].
The cast includes:
Tarzan - Kaden Hasty
Kala - Kamryn Chapman
Kerchak - Kyren Campbell
Leopard - Marrion Thomas
Young Tarzan - Ryana Smith
Young Terk - Ren Hill
Terk - Payton Chapman
Jane - Lela Reinking
Porter - Marrion Thomas
Clayton - Leland Chapman
Snipes - Rebecca Dalgleish & Madisyn Havard
Disney’s TARZAN is presented through special arrangement with, and all authorized materials are supplied by Music Theatre International, New York, New York.
“The Westlake High Theatre (WHT) Department offers classes in beginning acting, advanced acting and technical theatre. WHT exists to create extraordinary theatre experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire high school students and audiences. WHT seeks to be a model for excellence in the theatre while striving to lead in theatre opportunities, theatre training and generating initiatives for using theatre in education.
and community development. Theatre at Westlake High School is used to encourage the power of creativity and critical thinking, as well as embrace the fundamental attributes of young people: curiosity, risk taking, candor and imagination.”