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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Book and Lyrics by Gary Sullivan
Music
by John Trent Wallace
Based on Notre
Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo
A powerful piece of musical theatre in the style of ‘Les Miserables’, adapted
from Victor Hugo’s classic novel set in 15th century Paris. The story tells of a child abandoned
by his mother because of his physical deformities and brought up within the confines of Notre Dame by Archdeacon Claude Frollo.
Claude Frollo is tormented by his growing desire for Esmeralda, a beautiful dancing girl, a gypsy. Emotions heighten between
Esmeralda, her love for Pierre, a poet, her fear of Clopin the king of the gypsies who also desires her, the jealousy of Sharia
a rival over the affections of Clopin, Marique, Pierre’s sponsor who also loves Pierre and the innocent love for her
by Quasimodo, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’. The story ends unexpectedly with three
deaths!
If you have enjoyed Les Miserables, then here is another musical that will thrill you
and warm you with some beautiful and moving songs and characterisations.
“The score has tremendous
vitality and power!” – Cameron Mackintosh
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