The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Musical)

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Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Original title: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
Original language: English
Music: Alan Menken
Book: James Lapine
Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz
Literary source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Premiere: June 5, 1999
Place of premiere: Theater on Potsdamer Platz , Berlin
Place and time of the action: Paris, in 1482
Roles / people
  • Quasimodo
  • Claude Frollo
  • Esmeralda
  • Clopin
  • Phoebus
  • Antoine
  • Charles
  • Loni
  • Cathedral dean

The 1999 premiered musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Engl. AKA The Hunchback of Notre Dame ) in two acts by Alan Menken and James Lapine is based on the novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame of the author Victor Hugo and its Disney -Zeichentrickverfilmung The Hunchback by Notre Dame from 1996. Stephen Schwartz wrote the lyrics in English and Michael Kunze in German.

action

Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame, was accepted as a deformed foundling in the 15th century in Paris by the provost of Notre Dame Frollo, known as a sorcerer, and trained as a bell ringer. Quasimodo leads a lonely existence in the cathedral, but longs for the life that goes on outside in Paris. When he dared to take this step one day, he was pilloried and humiliated by the people because of his strange figure. Only the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda feels sorry for the creature and helps Quasimodo. This instantly falls in love with the beautiful woman, who, however, loses her heart to the captain Phoebus. But even Frollo, Quasimodo's teacher, falls in love with Esmeralda and becomes madly jealous because she does not hear him: He takes Esmeralda and Phoebus prisoner because they allegedly opposed him and thus the state. Now Esmeralda is to be burned as a witch. Quasimodo does not allow that, however: Despite the disappointed love he frees the two and kills his master by pushing him from the roof of the cathedral. Thus Quasimodo gives up the role of victim and finally manages to free himself from the walls of Notre Dame.

music

Act 1
  1. The bells of Notre Dames
  2. refuge
  3. Outside
  4. Faster Faster
  5. Dance on the rope
  6. A little joy
  7. Over and under
  8. Refuge recapitulation
  9. Help the offenders
  10. High above the world
  11. The light of heaven
  12. The fire of hell
  13. Esmeralda
Act 2
  1. Drumming in the city
  2. A man like you
  3. Because you love
  4. Dance of the gypsies
  5. Because you love reprise
  6. Like stone
  7. once
  8. Finale Ultimo

Performance history

After the world premiere on June 5, 1999, the play was performed for three years in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz, interrupted only for the Berlin International Film Festival , which uses the theater as a cinema every year under the name Berlinale Palast . The Dernière took place on June 30, 2002.

There was a new edition of the musical with a changed stage design from April to November 2017 in the Theater des Westens in Berlin .

occupation

German speaking role World premiere in Berlin (1999) Premiere Berlin (2017) Premiere Munich (2017) Premiere Stuttgart (2018)
Quasimodo Drew Sarich David Jakobs
Frollo Norbert Lamla Felix Martin
Esmeralda Judy Weiss Sarah Bowden Mercedesz Csampai
Clopin Jens Janke Gavin Turnbull
Phoebus Fredrik Lycke Maximilian Mann
Antoine Tamas Ferkay Doesn't appear
Charles Valentin Zahn Doesn't appear
Loni Yvonne Ritz Andersen Doesn't appear
Cathedral dean Carlo Lauber Doesn't appear

Awards

The musical was awarded the “Golden Europe” award for “Best Musical of the Year” in November 1999 and in January 2000 it received the BZ Culture Prize for the best stage design.

CD release

  • 1999: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - The highlights of the world premiere
  • 2017: The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Live from the Theater des Westens

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In: www.stage-entertainment.de. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The bell ringer cast performance. In: www.stage-entertainment.de. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .