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SYNOPSIS
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. 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 gypsy,
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 gypsies, and it’s up to Quasimodo to save
them all. |
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