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* BadassBoast: Kaa sings a boastful, menacing song to the monkeys. Buldeo and his fellow hunters also sing a song about their manliness and hunting skills.
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* BadassBoast: Multiple characters that qualify as badass get to sing a boastful song.
** Kaa sings aboastful, menacing song to the monkeys. monkeys how they [[YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive cannot escape him]].
** Akela, when he fails to catch his prey and loses the wolf pack's respect, sings a song about what a great leader and hunter he used to be.
** Buldeo and his fellow huntersalso sing a song about their manliness and [[ManlyMenCanHunt hunting skills.skills]].
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** Akela, when he fails to catch his prey and loses the wolf pack's respect, sings a song about what a great leader and hunter he used to be.
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* CloserToEarth: Bagheera, who is a female in this version, is often the voice of reason. She tries to convince Baloo to use less violence in his lessons to Mowgli, and attempts to negotiate with Kaa to help in the fight against Shere Khan near the end of the play.
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* WomenAreWiser: Bagheera, who is a female in this version, is often the voice of reason. She tries to convince Baloo to use less violence in his lessons to Mowgli, and attempts to negotiate with Kaa to help in the fight against Shere Khan near the end of the play.
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* BlackComedy: Chil and his flock of vultures have a very macabre sense of humor, and have a rather upbeat song about how everyone will ultimately die.
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* BlackComedy: Chil and his flock of vultures have a very macabre sense of humor, and have a rather upbeat song about how everyone dies.
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* BlackComedy: Chil and his flock of vultures have a very macabre sense of humor, and have a rather upbeat song about how everyone dies.will ultimately die.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The main plot of the play combines "Mowgli's Brothers", "Kaa's Hunting", "The King's Ankus" and "Tiger, Tiger!" from the book, with a few alterations to make the narrative flowing instead of episodic. The other Mowgli stories are briefly referenced as MythologyGag: Mowgli at one point threatens Buldeo with "Letting in the Jungle" on him, the song "The Night of the Tiger" got its title from "How Fear Came", and Baloo's and Bagheera's farewell songs to Mowgli recall the ending of "The Spring Running".
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The main plot of the play combines "Mowgli's Brothers", "Kaa's Hunting", "The King's Ankus" and "Tiger, Tiger!" from the book, with a few alterations to make the narrative flowing instead of episodic. episodic.
** The other Mowgli stories are briefly referenced as MythologyGag: Mowgli at one point threatens Buldeo with "Letting in the Jungle" on him, the song "The Night of the Tiger" got its title from "How Fear Came", and Baloo's and Bagheera's farewell songs to Mowgli recall the ending of "The SpringRunning".Running".
** Some changes seem to be inspired by the [[Disney/TheJungleBook Disney animated film]], such as Kaa's mild AdaptationalVillainy, Chil's species change from a kite to a vulture (the Disney film had four singing vultures), and the addition of a female LoveInterest to Mowgli.
** The other Mowgli stories are briefly referenced as MythologyGag: Mowgli at one point threatens Buldeo with "Letting in the Jungle" on him, the song "The Night of the Tiger" got its title from "How Fear Came", and Baloo's and Bagheera's farewell songs to Mowgli recall the ending of "The Spring
** Some changes seem to be inspired by the [[Disney/TheJungleBook Disney animated film]], such as Kaa's mild AdaptationalVillainy, Chil's species change from a kite to a vulture (the Disney film had four singing vultures), and the addition of a female LoveInterest to Mowgli.
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* SatelliteLoveInterest: While Túna is the closest ally of Mowgli in the man-village, she doesn't get much characterization apart from being a nice girl who's bethroted to Buldeo and attracted to Mowgli.
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* SnakesAreSinister: While neither of the snake characters is completely evil, both are quite creepy. Kaa uses his MassHypnosis abilities to kill the monkeys (and almost Mowgli too), while the white cobra fiercely guards the treasure under the monkey city.
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* AdaptedOut: Several characters, such as Tabaqui, Hathi (as putting an elephant on stage would have been difficult), Father Wolf (who was merged into Akela), Mother Wolf, Grey Brother, Messua (replaced by the younger female character Túna) and her husband.
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* AdaptedOut: Several characters, such as Tabaqui, Tabaqui (who is mentioned by name as an enemy of the wolves, but doesn't appear), Hathi (as putting an elephant on stage would have been difficult), Father Wolf (who was merged into Akela), Mother Wolf, Grey Brother, Messua (replaced by the younger female character Túna) and her husband.
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* CatsAreMean: Played straight with the evil Shere Khan. Averted with Bagheera, who is one of the nicest, most reasonable characters in the play.
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* CloserToEarth: Bagheera, who is a female in this version, is often the voice of reason. She tries to convince Baloo to use less violence in his lessons to Mowgli, and attempts to negotiate with Kaa to help in the fight against Shere Khan near the end of the play.
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* BearsAreBadNews: Baloo is a SternTeacher who often beats up Mowgli to teach him a lesson. However, he's ultimately a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who would risk his life to save the man-cub.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Baloo. He is a SadistTeacher who often beats up Mowgli, but he does this because he has old-fashioned views on teaching, and ultimately really loves and cares about Mowgli.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Baloo. He is a SadistTeacher SternTeacher who often beats up Mowgli, but he does this because he has old-fashioned views on teaching, and ultimately really loves and cares about Mowgli.Mowgli. He risks his own life to rescue the man-cub from the Bandar-log.
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* SadistTeacher: Baloo, who believes that beating Mowgli up with his massive paws is the only way to make him learn his lessons. He even sings a song about this.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The main plot of the play combines "Mowgli's Brothers", "Kaa's Hunting", "The King's Ankus" and "Tiger, Tiger!" from the book, but the other Mowgli stories are briefly referenced: Mowgli at one point threatens Buldeo with "Letting in the Jungle" on him, the song "The Night of the Tiger" got its title from "How Fear Came", and Baloo's and Bagheera's farewell songs to Mowgli recall the ending of "The Spring Running".
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The main plot of the play combines "Mowgli's Brothers", "Kaa's Hunting", "The King's Ankus" and "Tiger, Tiger!" from the book, but with a few alterations to make the narrative flowing instead of episodic. The other Mowgli stories are briefly referenced: referenced as MythologyGag: Mowgli at one point threatens Buldeo with "Letting in the Jungle" on him, the song "The Night of the Tiger" got its title from "How Fear Came", and Baloo's and Bagheera's farewell songs to Mowgli recall the ending of "The Spring Running".
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* AllWomenAreLustful: The women of the man-village sing a song about this.
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* TheRival: Buldeo, the leader of the hunters views Mowgli as this.
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* BigBad: Shere Khan, whose main goal is to kill Mowgli.
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* GratuitiousEnglish: The play is in Hungarian, but the monkeys' song has an English title, "Monkey Funky".
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'''''A dzsungel könyve''''' is a Hungarian [[TheMusical stage musical]] based on the Mowgli stories from Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheJungleBook''. While whimsical in tone, taking a few cues from the [[Disney/TheJungleBook Disney version]], it is still a very faithful adaptation of the book. In 1996 it was a major hit in Hungary, and has been staged numerous times since then.
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'''''A dzsungel könyve''''' is a Hungarian [[TheMusical stage musical]] based on the Mowgli stories from Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheJungleBook''. While somewhat whimsical in tone, taking a few cues from the [[Disney/TheJungleBook Disney version]], it is still a very faithful adaptation of the book.book, keeping a lot of the darker parts. In 1996 it was a major hit in Hungary, and has been staged numerous times since then.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The wolves have this attitude towards Mowgli. Once Akela loses the leadership of the pack, Shere Khan easily convinces them to turn against the man-cub.
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* AWildRapperAppears: In the monkeys' song, "Monkey Funky", there is a rapping part. On the soundtrack album it doubles as a CreatorCameo, as it is performed by the comedian and rapper Péter Geszti, who wrote the lyrics to all songs in the show.
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* RaisedByWolves: Mowgli, [[TropeCodifier of course]].
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* VillainSong: Shere Khan gets a rocking one in which he tries to convince the wolves to follow him, while Buldeo has one where he brags about being a great hunter. Kaa's first song also plays out as this, even though he becomes an ally to Mowgli.
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* VillainSong: Shere Khan gets a rocking one in which he tries to convince the wolves to follow him, while Buldeo has one where he brags about being a great hunter. Kaa's first song song, where he uses MassHypnosis on Mowgli and the monkeys, also plays out as this, even though he becomes an ally to Mowgli.Mowgli later in the same scene.
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* GenderFlip: Bagheera is a female in this play.
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* MrFanservice: Mowgli is traditionally played by a man in his late teens / early twenties, wearing a LoinCloth. He is treated as a ChickMagnet in-universe too.
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* TheDreaded: Kaa is one of the most feared animals in the jungle, and for a good reason.
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* TheDreaded: CluelessChickMagnet: Mowgli, who is initially very confused why the women from the man-village are so happy to see him. Not that he complains.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Baloo.]] In the book [[spoiler: he simply goes blind from old age]], here he dies.
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** Kaa is one of the most feared animals in the jungle, and for a goodreason.reason: his MassHypnosis abilities are a threat to anyone.
** Shere Khan is also a very feared villain, especially when it is the Night of the Tiger (when even Kaa refuses to fight him). There's a song sung about him.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Baloo.]] In the book [[spoiler: he simply goes blind from old age]], here he dies.
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** Early in the play, the wolves talk about how Mowgli looks nothing like a wolf. One of them says: "He doesn't even have a tail, apart from that little bit in the front."
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** Early in the play, the wolves talk about how Mowgli looks nothing like a wolf. One of them says: "He doesn't even have a tail, apart from that little bit in the front."
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* EvilAlbino: The white cobra who guards the treasure under the Monkey City.
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'''''A dzsungel könyve''''' is a Hungarian StageMusical [[TheMusical stage musical]] based on the Mowgli stories from Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheJungleBook''. While whimsical in tone, taking a few cues from the [[Disney/TheJungleBook Disney version]], it is still a very faithful adaptation of the book. In 1996 it was a major hit in Hungary, and has been staged numerous times since then.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Chil was a kite in the book, but he's a vulture in this play.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed with Kaa. When he first encounters Mowgli he attempts to eat him like in the Disney adaptation, but he ultimately becomes Mowgli's ally and rescues him from the monkeys like in the book.
* AdaptedOut: Several characters, such as Tabaqui, Hathi (as putting an elephant on stage would have been difficult), Father Wolf (who was merged into Akela), Mother Wolf, Grey Brother, Messua (replaced by the younger female character Túna) and her husband.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: This one is an adaptation of ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', of course.
* BlackComedy: Chil and his flock of vultures have a very macabre sense of humor, and have a rather upbeat song about how everyone dies.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed with Kaa. When he first encounters Mowgli he attempts to eat him like in the Disney adaptation, but he ultimately becomes Mowgli's ally and rescues him from the monkeys like in the book.
* AdaptedOut: Several characters, such as Tabaqui, Hathi (as putting an elephant on stage would have been difficult), Father Wolf (who was merged into Akela), Mother Wolf, Grey Brother, Messua (replaced by the younger female character Túna) and her husband.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: This one is an adaptation of ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', of course.
* BlackComedy: Chil and his flock of vultures have a very macabre sense of humor, and have a rather upbeat song about how everyone dies.
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* LoveTriangle: The play adds one between Mowgli, Túna and Buldeo.
* ManiacMonkeys: The Bandar-log, who are more crazy than malevolent but are still a threat to Mowgli.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Buldeo and his hunters sing a song about this.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Baloo, who dies of old age]] at the end of Act One. It is one of the biggest TearJerker moments of the play.
* ManiacMonkeys: The Bandar-log, who are more crazy than malevolent but are still a threat to Mowgli.
* ManlyMenCanHunt: Buldeo and his hunters sing a song about this.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Baloo, who dies of old age]] at the end of Act One. It is one of the biggest TearJerker moments of the play.
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* SadistTeacher: Baloo, who believes that beating Mowgli up with his massive paws is the only way to make him learn his lessons. He even sings a song about this.
* TheUndertaker: Chil and the vultures view themselves as this. It might be a reference to the story "The Undertakers" from the original book.
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* CanonForeigner: Túna, Mowgli's LoveInterest and Buldeo's fiancée. She is loosely based on Messua from the book, being a benevolent female who becomes Mowgli's primary ally in the man-village, but while Messua was a mother figure much older than Mowgli, Túna is the same age as him.
* CompositeCharacter: Akela in this version combines the book's Akela (the leader of the wolf pack) and Father Wolf (Mowgli's foster father).
* HurricaneOfPuns: Most songs, thanks to comedian Péter Geszti writing its lyrics.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Baloo. He is a SadistTeacher who often beats up Mowgli, but he does this because he has old-fashioned views on teaching, and ultimately really loves and cares about Mowgli.
* NobleWolf: Akela, who in this version is the fiercely loyal adoptive father of Mowgli and the only one from the pack who stands up against Shere Khan.
* NubileSavage: Mowgli, who becomes a CluelessChickMagnet when arriving to the man-village despite growing up in the jungle.
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* CanonForeigner: Túna, Mowgli's LoveInterest and Buldeo's fiancée. She is loosely based on Messua from the book, being a benevolent female who becomes Mowgli's primary ally in the man-village, but while Messua was a mother figure much older than Mowgli, Túna is the same age as him.
* CompositeCharacter: Akela in this version combines the book's Akela (the leader of the wolf pack) and Father Wolf (Mowgli's foster father).
* HurricaneOfPuns: Most songs, thanks to comedian Péter Geszti writing its lyrics.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Baloo. He is a SadistTeacher who often beats up Mowgli, but he does this because he has old-fashioned views on teaching, and ultimately really loves and cares about Mowgli.
* NobleWolf: Akela, who in this version is the fiercely loyal adoptive father of Mowgli and the only one from the pack who stands up against Shere Khan.
* NubileSavage: Mowgli, who becomes a CluelessChickMagnet when arriving to the man-village despite growing up in the jungle.
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