Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame showcases the film’s Academy Award-nominated score, as well as new songs by Menken and Schwartz. Peter Parnell’s new book embraces story theatre and features verbatim passages from Hugo’s gothic novel.
The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be "Out There," observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, the archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful Romani woman, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn’t the only one captivated by her free spirit, though – the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled. As the three vie for her attention, Frollo embarks on a mission to destroy the Roma – and it’s up to Quasimodo to save them all.
Videos
Curse of the Starving Class
Theatre Raleigh (11/6 - 11/17) | ||
THE PASSION OF MARY CARDWELL DAWSON
A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater, Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts (12/13 - 12/15) | ||
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium, Martin Marietta Center for the Arts (4/4 - 4/6) | ||
'Twas the Night Before... By Cirque du Soleil
DPAC (12/5 - 12/15) | ||
Being Chaka
Burning Coal Theatre Company (3/13 - 3/30) | ||
Shucked
DPAC (3/4 - 3/9) | ||
Shinsei (rebirth)
OdysseyStage (10/31 - 11/10) | ||
The Rainmaker
Burning Coal Theatre Company (12/5 - 12/22) | ||
Merrily We Roll Along
Burning Coal Theatre Company (4/10 - 4/27) | ||
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