Walt Disney's Jungle Book

The Story

Disney’s most popular movie on stage! Over 40 years later it remains Disney’s most beloved endeavors!

Teeming with a wealth of young local performers, Off Square presents two full casts for The Jungle Book. More than 60 youthful actors go jumpin’ and singin’ in the warmest and furriest of tales. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s classic 1894 story, Off Square plays Walt Disney’s musical adaptation, by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, which was released as an animated feature in 1967.

Infant Mowgli is abandoned in the jungles of India and rescued by Bagheera, a compassionate panther who delivers him to be cared for by a pack of wolves. They raise Mowgli as a man-cub. He is destined for a life in the wilds until the man-eating Bengal tiger, Shere Khan appears.

For his safety, Mowgli’s canine keepers reluctantly try to return him to the man village. But Mowgli will do anything to remain in the jungle. He runs deeper into the forest and meets his new best friend, a giant bear named Baloo, who teaches him jungle survival tactics and the bare necessities.

As Mowgli plays like a wild boy again he encounters more jungle madness and then danger in the slithering form of Kaa, the python, who wants to devour him as a tasty jungle snack. Colonel Hathi of the elephant patrol and other tropical dwellers share important lessons with Mowgli along the way. Meanwhile, King Louie and his gang of monkeys see Mowgli as their personal Prometheus. They want his red fire. And Shere Khan is still on the hunt, thus the man-cub’s safety remains uncertain. Perhaps his friends will have to break their word and return him to his people.

Monkeys want to be men, and men want to be wild in this prehensile tale of friendship, joy, and wilderness. The Jungle Book is sure to awaken the animal in everyone!