All of those ideas could have worked — Ann Darrow as Gotham City’s Jane Goodall — if there was better character development and if you actually believed the relationship between Ann and King Kong. But while he does his best to give it up (those eyes! those eyes!), she’s emotionally unavailable and preoccupied with the show’s frenetic choreography, also by McOnie, who needed to spend less time on racing narrative movement and more on human intimacy. Even as simple as it is, the story races along at such a pace that it feels like it always is running away from what matters most in a musical. Given all that was built here, we could have come to know the star so much better, and all kinds of opportunities are missed for tender moments.