Siena Worland as Jane and Coby Oram as Tarzan in Area Stage’s “Disney’s Tarzan” opening in previews July 17 through Aug. 10 at the company’s performance space in the Shops at Sunset, South Miami.

Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, is singing and swinging his way into South Miami. The character has been a staple of pop culture since 1914, when Edgar Rice Burroughs published the first of 24 novels about ...