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Article: Emerald City re-explores 'Jungle Book'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 21, 2006
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'THE JUNGLE BOOK'
- Emerald City Theatre Company, at the Apollo Theatre, 2540 N.
Lincoln
-1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, plus some weekday performances in
May, through June 4
-Tickets, $12 adult, $9 children
-(773) 935-6100
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Think Bollywood, not Hollywood. Think Kipling, not Disney.
The Emerald City Theatre Company has gone back to the sources to
re-imagine Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of a boy raised by wolves
in the jungles of India, The Jungle Book. Emerald City's production,
which premieres this week, is a musical that combines the lush
production numbers of contemporary Indian movies with Kipling's story
of Mowgli, the "man-cub," his adventures among the animals that ...