Disney on Broadway, the stage play arm of the Disney Corporation, had staged successful versions of Beauty and the Beast in 1994 and The Lion King in 1997. It received generally positive reviews and did reasonably well at the box office. In 1996, Walt Disney Animation Studios created an animated film adaption of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name. After closing in Berlin, the musical moved to Munich and Stuttgart. In April 2017 a new German production of the musical opened at the Theater des Westens in Berlin. The show closed on April 5, 2015, after it was announced that it would not move to Broadway. Subsequently, the show went on to open on Maat the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, with more changes in the libretto. The English-language musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with a revised libretto, had its debut at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California on Octoand ran until December 7, 2014. It ran for three years, becoming one of Berlin's longest-running musicals.
It was produced by Disney Theatrical Productions, the company's first musical to premiere outside the U.S. The original musical premiered in 1999 in Berlin, Germany as Der Glöckner von Notre Dame ( "The Bellringer of Notre Dame"). Hugo loved architecture and the Cathedral, with a result that it was restored soon after the book was published.The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a musical play based on the 1831 novel of the same name written by Victor Hugo with songs from the 1996 Walt Disney Animation Studios film adaptation. In Hugo’s time, the cathedral had been substantially damaged (windows, statutes, art, treasure) in the iconoclastic upheaval of the French revolutionary era and subsequent use for decades as a food warehouse. The book is set in the post-construction, pre-Protestant 1400s, the height of the Cathedral’s condition and of the Catholic Church in France. Hugo visited the Cathedral every day while writing this, in a 6 month final rush because he'd missed the publication deadline. Hugo's book title was simply the name of the Cathedral, "Notre Dame de Paris", without reference to a Hunchback, which was only added to the English translation. It centers on the Cathedral, not on Quasimodo per se. If you are an aficionado of Parisian architectural history or the various means by which privileged classes held rights to various sources of income, this is a treasure trove. Along with detailed character development, Hugo develops subthemes (anti-cleric, anti-judiciary, anti-aristocratic, anti-xenophobic) throughout the text. This is NOT the highly-abridged plotline encapsulated in the movies.
Very well read indeed by a talented and well-qualified "solo" reader.īe prepared to appreciate, and endure, the many themes in this very long book (1200 English pages, 1900 French pages).
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