Don’t look for your father’s “The Jungle Book” at the Dalton Little Theatre.
In the DLT’s summer children/youth production, there’s no cartoon Baloo singing “Bare Necessities” or a deep-throated King Louie intoning “I Wan’na Be Like You.”
Instead, said director Jinny Marie Jagoditsch, what will be presented when the show opens Thursday is somewhat akin to original “Jungle Book” collection author Rudyard Kipling meets Bollywood.
“This is completely different,” she said. “It has nothing to do with the movie version.”
Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” is a collection of stories with anthropomorphic animal characters providing moral lessons. Several of the stories include Mowgli, an abandoned “man cub” raised by wolves in the jungle.