The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)

=The Hunchback of Notre Dame (musical)= The Hunchback of Notre Dame (English title The Hunchback of Notre Dame ) is a 1999 first performed musical in two acts by Alan Menken and James Lapine, based on the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame based author Victor Hugo. The lyrics in English written by Stephen Schwartz and the lyrics were written in German by Michael Kunze.

Plot
Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame was 15th as a foundling in the malformed Century in Paris known as the Warlock provost of Notre Dame Frollo added and configured as a bell ringer. Quasimodo lives a lonely existence in the cathedral, but longs for the life that takes place outside of Paris. One day as he dare to, he is due to its peculiar shape by the people pilloried and humiliated. Only the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda takes pity on the creature and helps Quasimodo. This falls instantly to the beautiful woman who loses her heart, however, the captain Phoebus. But Frollo, the teacher Quasimodo falls in love with Esmeralda and is furiously jealous because they did not answered him: It captures Esmeralda and Phoebus, as they are supposed to him, and thus the State opposed. Now, Esmeralda be burned as a witch. The Quasimodo however, does not: Despite the disappointment in love, he freed the two and brings his master, taking him from the roof of the cathedral comes. Thus sets Quasimodo from the role of victim and manages to finally get rid of the walls of Notre Dame.

Cast

 * Quasimodo: Drew Sarich
 * Esmeralda: Judy Weiss
 * Phoebus: Fredrik Lycke
 * Clopin: Jens Janke
 * Frollo: Norbert Lamla
 * Victor: Valentin Zahn
 * Laverne: Yvonne Ritz Andersen
 * Hugo: Tamàs Ferkay
 * The Archdeacon: Carlo Lauber

Musical numbers
Awards
 * Act I
 * "Die Glocken Notre Dames" ("The Bells of Notre Dame") – Clopin, Archdeacon, Frollo & Chorus
 * "Zuflucht" ("Sanctuary") – Frollo, Quasimodo, Antoine, Charles & Loni
 * "Draußen" ("Out There") – Quasimodo
 * "Tanz auf dem Seil" ("Balancing Act") – Clopin, Esmeralda & Gypsies
 * "Ein bißchen Freude" ("Rest and Recreation") – Phoebus
 * "Drunter drüber" ("Topsy Turvy") – Clopin, Quasimodo & Crowd
 * "Helf den Verstoß'nen" ("God Help the Outcasts") – Esmeralda, Quasimodo & Parisians
 * "Hoch über der Welt" ("Top of the World") – Esmeralda, Quasimodo, Antoine, Charles & Loni
 * "Das Licht des Himmels" ("Heaven's Light") – Quasimodo
 * "Das Feuer der Hölle" ("Hellfire") – Frollo & Priests
 * "Esmeralda" – Frollo, Quasimodo, Phoebus, Esmeralda, Clopin & Soldiers
 * Act II
 * "Trommeln in der Stadt" ("City Under Siege") – Clopin & Parisians
 * "Ein Mann wie du" ("A Guy Like You") – Antoine, Charles, Loni & Quasimodo
 * "Weil du liebst" ("Out of Love") – Quasimodo, Phoebus, Antoine, Charles & Loni
 * "Tanz der Zigeuner" ("Dance of the Gypsies") - Orchestra
 * "Weil du liebst ("Out of Love (Reprise)") – Phoebus, Esmeralda & Quasimodo
 * "Wie aus Stein" ("Made of Stone") – Quasimodo, Loni, Charles & Antoine
 * "Einmal" ("Someday") – Esmeralda, Phoebus & Parisians
 * "Grand Finale" – Full Company

 The musical was in November 1999 with the "Goldene Europa" Award for "Best Musical of the Year" and in January 2000 it received the BZ-cultural award for best set design.

Performance history
After the premiere on 5 June 1999, the play was performed for three years in the theater at Potsdamer Platz, only interrupted for the International Film Festival in Berlin, the theater every year under the name " Berlinale Palast use "as a cinema. The Dernière took place on 30 June 2002 and since then has been the musical no longer listed.

But there are obviously attempts to launch a U.S. version of the stage: Composer Alan Menken said in an interview published in November 2010, "We're bringing that one back, too ... we are still using James Lapine's book!. " [1]

CD release
 1999: The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - The highlights of the world-premiere