Tarzan in non-Anglophone Germanic Musicals

Hi there musical fans, did Tarzan appear in a couple of non-Anglophone Germanic Musicals? I guess they’re all based on the Broadway model. 

The Dutch Scheveningen musical has a lot of actors. Ron Link and John Vooijs played the Dutch Tarzan, while Jane Porter was played by the Dutch Chantal Jantzen. 

The Dutch dudes who played Young Tarzan are Tim Koper, the Indonesian-Dutch Jai Wowor, Machiel Verbeek, Ralf Mackenbach, Marc Molenaar, Sander Pieterse, Jary Beekhuizen, Wessel van der Kraan, Nicky Luyten, Bas Kerst, Floris Draaisma, Melle Rigter, Lars Molengraaf, Remy Borsboom, Peter de Kroon, Tjesse Bleijenberg, Willem Schenk, the Swedish Pelle Nelissen, Luuk Hartog, Max van Alphen, Enzo Coenen, Valentijn Hoogwerf, Brenn Luiten, Tjeerd Melchers, Christian Nieuwenhuizen and the Italo-Dutch Vinni Peverelli. 

The Hamburg part of the rather well loved German Hamburg/Stuttgart/Oberhausen musical first appeared in 2008 and featured two hot guys as the Hamburg Tarzan, Anton Zetterholm (of Constantin Tarzan 3D fame) and singer-songwriter Alexander Klaws. Also starring were Elisabeth Hübert and the Austrian Ina Trabesinger as Hamburg Jane Porter. 

The German dudes who once played Young Tarzan are Linus Bruhn, Moritz Gaertner, Laurin Kirsch, Alexander Kühl, Timon Masberg, Luca Rieger, Philippe Schindler, Frederic Schönleben, Jannik Semmelhaack, Joshua Sommer and Yannick Swatosch. 

The first Stuttgart part was somehow different from the earlier Hamburg part in which it was made in a Swabian city. It starred Italo-German Gian Marco Schiaretti as Stuttgart Tarzan and Merle Hoch as Stuttgart Jane Porter. 

Then came the Oberhausen part in 2016, which featured a revised stage set. Even though Tessa Sunniva van Tol played the Oberhausen Jane Porter, that reprisal is probably the only part of the Germanic Tarzan musical mythos where both the Hamburg actors and Josh Strickland reprise their shared role as the German Musical Tarzan! 

Unlike the first one, the second Stuttgart part has Terence van der Loo as Tarzan and Vajén van den Bosch as Jane Porter. Both are Dutch entertainers from the Netherlands. 

It seems like the Tarzan musical has a large Germanic fanbase in both the Netherlands and Germany. 

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