Instead of hearing the character Tarzan yell his iconic sound, guests to the Cervantes Theatre for the Arts at Riverside Military Academy will hear the apeman sing.

“Tarzan” the stage musical will be performed at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12; and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 13, at 2001 Riverside Drive in Gainesville.

Tickets are $15. They can be purchased online at www.SuwaneePerformingArts.org or calling 678-482-6333.

The Community Art Players of Suwanee, a performance group under the umbrella of Suwanee Performing Arts, is producing the story based on Disney’s animated musical and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes. It will features music by rock legend Phil Collins.

The story begins with a shipwreck that leaves an infant orphaned on the West African shore. The helpless baby is taken under the protection of Kala (played by Natalie Minter), a mother gorilla who has lost her own child. The baby becomes part of her gorilla tribe family.

Apart from striving for acceptance from his ape father Kerchak (played by Andrew Cook), the life of the human baby now called Tarzan (played by Joseph Torres) is mostly monkey business. Then a human expedition treks into the tribe’s territory. When Tarzan encounters his first human, Jane Porter (played by McKenna Yearick), a curious young explorer, he struggles to navigate a jungle thick with emotion and his animal upbringing clashing with his human instincts.

In the typical style of Suwanee Performing Arts, CAPS director Rebecca J. Martell and choreographer Melissa Joy recruited Cirque performer Gina Hermansen to work with the actors. Hermansen, in collaboration with Akrosphere Aerial Dance and Circus Arts, trained the actors in aerial silks; the gorillas will literally be swinging across the stage. The added surprise is the actors are middle and high school students who have no experience in acrobatic arts.

“I don’t take dance classes,” said Molly Day, who plays a gorilla. “So Silks has allowed me to explore another side of the fine arts. It’s given me an outlet for physical expression other than dance. I’m even using it for a physics project!”

For more information, visit www.SuwaneePerformingArts.org or email info@suwaneeperforms.com.