The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)
- Quasimodo
- Claude Frollo
- Esmeralda
- Clopin
- Phoebus
- Antoine
- Charles
- Loni
- Domdekan
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (English Original title The Hunchback of Notre Dame ) is a 1999 musical premiered in two acts by Alan Menken and James Lapine, based on the novel The Hunchback of Notre -Dame of the author Victor Hugo. The lyrics in English wrote Stephen Schwartz and the lyrics in German were written by Michael Kunze.
Action
Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame was included as malformed foundling in the 15th century in Paris, known as the Warlock provost of Notre Dame Frollo and designed as a bell ringer. Quasimodo lives a lonely existence in the cathedral, but longs for the life that goes on outside in Paris. When he dares this step one day, he is asked and humiliated because of its strange shape by the people in the pillory. Only the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda takes pity on the creature and helps Quasimodo. This falls in love instantly into the beautiful woman, but that her heart is losing the Captain Phoebus. But Frollo, Quasimodo the teacher, falls in love with Esmeralda, and is furiously jealous because she does not hear him: he captures Esmeralda and Phoebus, as they allegedly resisted him, and thus the state. Now Esmeralda will be burned as a witch. That leaves Quasimodo but not: Despite the disappointed love it frees the two and kills his master, by knocking it off the roof of the cathedral. Thus Quasimodo places the role of the victim and make it last, to free themselves from the walls of Notre Dame.
Occupation
Music
Act 1
- The bells of Notre Dame
- Refuge
- Out
- Faster, Faster
- Dance on the rope
- A little bit of joy
- Topsy - Drüber
- Refuge Reprise
- Help the Verstoß'nen
- High above the world
- The light of heaven
- The fires of hell
- Esmeralda
2.Akt
- Drums in the city
- A man like you
- Because you love
- Dance of the Gypsies
- Because you love reprise
- As of stone
- Once
- Finale Ultimo
Awards
The musical was awarded in November 1999 with the " Goldene Europa " as the "Best Musical of the Year" and in January 2000 it received the BZ- Culture Award for the best stage design.
Performance history
After the premiere on June 5, 1999, the play was performed for three years in the theater at Potsdamer Platz, interrupted only for the International Film Festival, which annually go to the theater under the name " Berlinale Palast " as a cinema. The Dernière took place on 30 June 2002; Since then, the musical was no longer listed.
But there are obviously efforts to bring a U.S. version on stage: Composer Alan Menken said in a report published in November 2010 interview, " We're bringing back one did, too! Quiet ... we are using James Lapine 's book. "