Der Glöckner von Notre Dame
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | |
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| Music | Alan Menken |
| Lyrics | Stephen Schwartz |
| Book |
James Lapine (german version) Peter Parnell (american version) |
| Basis |
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Walt Disney Animation Studios |
| Productions | 1999 Berlin 2013 West Palm Beach 2014 San Diego 2015 Millburn 2016 Utah 2016 Maine 2016 Sacramento 2016 Tokyo 2017 Melbourne 2017 Berlin 2018 Kankakee |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a musical based on the 1831 novel by Victor Hugo and the 1996 Walt Disney Animation Studios film of the same name.
The musical premiered in 1999 in Berlin, Germany as Der Glöckner von Notre Dame ("The Bellringer of Notre Dame"). It was produced by Walt Disney Theatrical, the company's first musical to premiere outside the U.S. It ran for three years, becoming one of Berlin's longest-running musicals. An adaptation was presented at The King's Academy college-preparatory school in West Palm Beach in 2013.
The English-language musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame had its american debut at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California on October 28, 2014 and ran until December 7, 2014. Subsequently, the show went on to open on March 4, 2015 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey. The show closed on April 5, 2015, after it was announced that it would not move to Broadway.
The german version of the musical relies on a series of musical leitmotifs, which are reprised either instrumentally or vocally. Each of the central characters has a theme ("Out There" for Quasimodo, "God Help the Outcasts" for Esmeralda, "Hellfire" for Frollo, and "Rest and Recreation" for Phoebus). "The Bells of Notre Dame" acts as a narrative device to tell parts of the story.
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