Jungelboken is a Norwegian stage musical based on Rudyard Kipling's work The Jungle Book, but with heavy influences from the Disney movie. The play premiered in Oslo in 1989 and turned out to be a big hit, with an impressive three-year run, and it's been revived and set up several times later, including quite a few amateur productions. The play centers around Wild Child Mowgli, who is Raised by Wolves and lives in the jungle with his wolf family, is taught the law of the jungle by Baloo the bear and watched over by Bagheera the black panther. As Mowgli grows older, he wants to be more independent and starts going off on his own a lot more — but there are a lot of dangers out in the jungle for a human child, especially with the human-hating tiger Shere Khan around. Bagheera wants Mowgli to go live in the human village where he'll be safe, but Mowgli isn't so easy to convince.