Les Mis came out in the 80s, and while the Hunchback of Notre Damd movie came out in 1996, the musical came out in the 2010s. They were also both written by Victor Hugo.
... holding your communion wine. In another multi-verse, our loathsome, lustful Reverend? He's replaced, by one, who sees the young woman, and feels the voice of God, in his inner-ears, and sees God's grand vision, for the people of NOTRE DAME.
I love how the actor who plays Frollo says "...thing". That one word has so much emotion as he says it. He is terrified, shocked but submissive. He can say so much with one word. Truly talented!
Patrick Page is absolutely iconic!! He was also the original Hades on Broadway for Hadestown!! I'm not sure if he still is, all I know is that he's an amazing singer, especially with bass notes
The soul will live on, even the flames claim the pillars and steeple. For some reason, even if the bells aren’t struck, their tune rings and sing through the streets.
Tj Samson I think she uses a vocal register that where I live is called whistle: super hard to learn, but the results are truly impressive like in this song.
Dude that wasn't ONE woman that was 20 metzo soprano belters all singing as high as they can in a whistle tone in unison!!! That's why it sounded so unreal!!! But you're right. Absolutely astounding, didn't even think humans could manifest such awesomeness!
@@brennenfoerst3908 it is gorgeous here with the whistle tone. ....But my favorite is when Paul Kandel, as Clopin in the animation, hits it by himself and floats it for like 16 counts. I hate that the remastered/edited version drowns him out with the chorus. I do really like this arrangement too though.
People say they miss the backstory of the movie, but making Quasimodo Frollo's nephew gives them a more personal relationship and makes Frollo's care of Quasi seem more believable and realistic.
Actually, the musical somehow mixes the original story and the Disney story. In the original story is clear that Frollo and Quasimodo are relate, though is not clear the kind of relationship they have, but Frollo is still a monster.
Payton P It makes the film more mature tbh, it shows how not everything is black and white and that circumstances can lead to a good man to do bad deeds. It would be way too much for a child, as most are used to stories about a perfect good guy and a flawed villain
I like how Frollo is portrayed as a much more well-meaning person like he was in the book. I mean Movie!Frollo was a rocking villain, yes, but Book!Frollo had so many more dimensions to him. I especially like the decision to portray Jehan as Quasimodo's birth father. It adds an extra dimension to Frollo's decision to raise Quasi--wanting to succeed with him where he failed with Jehan (let's not kid ourselves, Frollo's repressed and neurotic, but Jehan's lease on life was not much better. He was in the opposite extreme).
Jehan better human being I would not like a archdeacon father Claude Frollo he is acting like judge Claude Frollo who ratted me out all the time. Frollo is Milton Grimm while Jehan is Giles Grimm who always speakes in riddles yay. Screw Frollo I would go out and party. Live life to the fullest. I have a right to date florica. Come on Frollo is messed up he has lust for his brother's girlfriend. Adultary I will not want anything that belongs to my neighbor or take from my neighbor something like that etc. Me what yes I accept advances from a gypsy girl so what it's true what my brother says I do not get out much and I need a little fun in my life. I can not live the rest of my life stuck inside a church. Family is first not a son of notre dame. But no Frollo case no I need food and water I need a sancuary and home. Plus I am rising through the ranks. Poor Jehan was dragged by Claude Frollo to that church for who knows what reasons. Then jerk Claude Frollo says I find a way to make you a member of the church. No forget it enough with pride but if you have found the true meaning of carrying your own cross. Here is my son who is a product of true love and not fake love something which I doubt you ever understand.
Yeah, and they also added ideas from their own heads. I'm pretty sure that Frollo didn't have a brother, but him having one in this makes him much more human. It's pretty cool. I also appreciate that the reason Quasimodo stands up at the beginning and the end is because he's dead. I usually HATE magical cures , but this doesn't count, because death isn't a magical cure. It is death. It's also a major plus that quasi Moto didn't die of his disability or some shit, as far as I could tell, because blind and can't see everything on in the video, but it seemed like he died more of a broken heart than anything, which is something that anybody can die of. Perks riders!
Jonathan Bassett Yeah. I actually just learned that today. Thanks for telling me though. If I hadn't learned it, just by coincidence, earlier today, I would've learned it from you. Spreading the knowledge! ☺️
Hearing them go into unison at 5:37, when they sing "as if it were the eyes of God," is absolutely breathtaking. It's like the composers were playing into the fact that Catholicism is monotheistic... to Frollo, there is only one God, and that God, to him, ends up being the ultimate judge (and the only pair of eyes that'll matter in the end).
My absolute favourite part of this song!! So powerfull! It lifts your spirit to the freaking Heavens and fills you with such awe and emotion... UGH I LOVE IT!!
It was a daring try, but I feel the narrative and dialogue could’ve been tweaked, in my opinion. It doesn’t show here, but this prologue goes on for 11 and a half minutes, telling of how Jehan brought a Romani prostitute Florika for Claude’s birthday, only for Father Dupin to catch them with her, Claude exposing her to Dupin, which makes Dupin expel Jehan, and after Claude became the Archdeacon he discovered that Jehan has been going around and he and Florika have the pox, which killed her earlier, leaving Jehan with Quasimodo who he gives to Claude when he dies. I remember watching this show(blessed by my Aunt Jeanne, who was able to get tickets for her, me, and my dad) at the La Jolla playhouse, and while I liked that they were allowed to change the narrative, I didn’t feel it made for that of a clear or compelling tone for the show(it’s dark, yes, but self mocking as well?), for I honestly was so annoyed by the “humor” they try to do with uninteresting dialogue(like the “Jehan” and “Florika” “LEFT” bit after Dupin expels them, or dragging the King Louie scene), and I felt like I was supposed to see something significant about how these events unfolded but it was too exposition like for me to comprehend the inner meaning of what’s happening(like how in the book, for example, Notre Dame is described becoming an extension of Quasimodo’s body when he prepares to stop the vagabonds from getting into Notre Dame). Plus, the way they pronounce Jehan’s name here is incorrect. As the Charles Laughton film pointed out (which is the version Disney pulled the most from for the 1996 film), his name isn’t pronounced like it is spelled (Jay ann), it’s pronounced more like Jean but the “n” is more silent. Personally, from reading the book myself, I was hoping they’d allow Claude to start off with a more sympathetic personality, and did this prologue like the book, not just talking about how he found Quasimodo on the orphan bed and compassionately decided to raise him as his own, but maybe even talk about how Esmeralda was replaced by Quasimodo as a child and stolen from her prostitute mother. I’m sure there’s a way you could write out the script for a sequence of events(with SOME retooling to make it not vilify the Romani folk(like how the Charles Laughton film presented their plight as just a plight. Or this song from the original 1999 Berlin show, Balancing Act/Tanz Auf Dem Seil, which did the same by describing the roles they have to play to be allowed to stay in Paris(beggar, performer, and scapegoat), as well as introducing Esmeralda as a person before her dance, and I WISH it wasn’t cut from this version of the show! Side note: “Gypsy” is a well known European racial slur towards the Romanis, but it seems that wasn’t addressed to the creators until “In a Place of Miracles”) matching the same dramatic energy of the film score(especially with the music when Judge Frollo realizes its a deformed baby and tries to drop it in the well, only for the archdeacon to stop him. Maybe you could do that same music to some Parisian folk discovering the baby at the founders window, panic at him, and THEY try to throw him in the well, and it’s young priest Claude who stops them and chides them for their attempted murder with musical lines like the archdeacon’s in the movie). Finally, when he decides to raise the child as his own, out of genuine compassion, he names child ambiguously, not cruelly, after either Low Sunday or for the “Half formed” translation, but keep the audience pondering about it as they are asked “Who is the monster, and who is the man”(which I wish they kept for this current version of the show). It’s not clear what to believe at first, and that’s the point. The sequence of events that follows, Claude’s transformation to a “monster”, to Quasimodo’s killing of Frollo as a “man”, should point out how such generalizations as the first riddle aren’t that easy to answer in real life, that instead we’d be better guessing the final riddle “what makes a monster and what makes a man”. Also, I’m sure you could make Jehan a present character in the story, maybe acting as a co MC with Clopin during Topsy Turvey, and maybe have Quasimodo indirectly murder him with the molten lead, which Claude sees, etc. In the original 1999 Berlin stage version of this show(which is more like the Disney film, but with gothic tone elements from the novel), there’s a song called Sanctuary/Zuflucht that expands Frollo and Quasimodo’s duet at the start of Out There into it’s own song. It talks of Frollo’s backstory(which is where you could bring up his childhood of learning, to his parents dying of the plague, bringing his baby brother Jehan to a mill, and how all this might play in his rationalization of fate), and also has a counterpoint of the gargoyles(or the congregation here), who are established imaginary characters Quasimodo thinks up to talk with, say the opposite of what Frollo says of the world to convince Quasi to go out(also Out There is Quasi’s own solo track in that recording). Sorry if this was too long, or critical of your viewpoint. I’m glad to hear someone happy about this version of the prologue, but I’m still kinda stuck in my own view of what the show should be like(mostly deriving from the 1999 version’s original script and direction by James Lapine(the same guy who did Falsettos with William Finn, Into the Woods and other shows with Stephen Sondheim(Sweeney Todd), etc.) which I feel does a better job at consistent tone establishment with a just a nice bit of dry humor puns to make it feel lively. Also, I’m really mad that Thomas Schumacher kicked James off the project when Alan Menken had said they were going to use James’ book, but I digress). In fact, I’m actually writing my own libretto for this show, pulling from the best parts of both stage versions(and implementing the changes and ideas I previously mentioned), and best unused sections of the film score, to create a version of this story that, while not necessarily fallowing the misanthropic tone of the book, at least is able to show that world(with all it’s cruelties of fate) capable of upholding the messages the songs in this show promotes(“Someday” for example) but also crafting narrative elements to bolster what the creator’s only went half way with(I wasn’t sure what the point of the Tavern scene was, and felt like something bad was gonna happen in that scene, like having it be THERE where Frollo tries to stab Phoebus, rather than that weird stab and blame bit he does in “Esmeralda”). I’m not sure when I’ll ever finish the whole thing, but I hope to be ready to share my version of the prologue and the finale “one day, someday, soon(🤗).”
It's got a mix of Sweeney Todd and Les Misérables vibes. This version is absolutely beautiful and gives me chills as the movie did. I want this on Broadway!!! Or if they choose to tour, I would see this in a heartbeat!
I was legit listening to this song and being like "... is that the dies irae?" (musical motif/pattern/whateverthecorrectterm is that is in both Sweeney Todd and Les Mis that has 'death'/'bad vibes' connotations) and then I realize the voices in the background are *literally saying* "dies irae" XDDDDD
Bells Of Notre Dame Lyrics: [CONGREGANT (CLOPIN)] Morning in Paris The city awakes To the bells of Notre Dame [CONGREGATION] The fisherman fishes The baker-man bakes To the bells of Notre Dame To the big bells as loud as the thunder To the little bells soft as a psalm And some say the soul of The city's the toll of The bells The bells of Notre Dame Long years ago did this story begin In this place of Notre Dame Two orphan brothers were both taken in By the grace of Notre Dame [CONGREGANT (FROLLO)] Claude, the older, who cared for his brother [CONGREGANT (JEHAN)] Young Jehan, full of beauty and charm [BOTH] And they lived and they grew And awoke to the music Of bells [CONGREGATION] The bells of Notre Dame [CHOIR] Kyrie Eleison [FROLLO] Oh, dear brother 'Neath these arches and this sacred dome [CHOIR] Kyrie Eleison [FROLLO] We are blessed to find our sanctuary And our home [CONGREGATION] Righteous Claude Frollo Was ever more drawn Like a son to Notre Dame [CONGREGANT (JEHAN)] Not like his profligate brother Jehan Who'd have none of Notre Dame [CONGREGATION] Though as brothers they loved one another Frollo watched in despair and alarm As Jehan who grew more wild And defied and defiled All the laws The laws of Notre Dame [CHOIR] Kyrie Eleison [FATHER DUPIN] You must leave, Jehan This holy refuge where you've dwelled [CHOIR] Kyrie Eleison [FROLLO, spoken] Leave? But, Father... [FATHER DUPIN] Sorry, Claude, but I've no choice Your brother is expelled [CONGREGANT (FROLLO), spoken] And Frollo didn't hear from his brother for several years [CONGREGATION] Meanwhile Frollo ascended uncommonly fast Through the ranks of Notre Dame Till he was named the Archdeacon at last And gave thanks to Notre Dame And then one doleful day got a message [CONGREGANT (FROLLO)] And the name that it bore was "Jehan" [CONGREGATION] And concealing his face Frollo stole to a place Far away Away from Notre Dame [FROLLO, spoken] Jehan! Let me take you back. I'll bring you home [FROLLO] Brother, dearest, come with me Where we will find a remedy And Notre Dame once more will be Your sanctuary Healing you will be my goal Not just your body but your soul We'll be together in our Holy sanctuary [JEHAN, spoken] Enough, Claude! It's too late for me, anyway. But if you have truly discovered charity at this late date, there is someone you can help [FROLLO, spoken] A baby? Yours? Oh - a monster! It's God's judgment on you! The wicked shall not go unpunished! [JEHAN, spoken] I should have known. I was a fool to think that you would look after him [FROLLO, spoken] Look after him? Me? [JEHAN, spoken] He has nobody else. Take him. If you can find it in your heart [FROLLO, spoken] Jehan...Jehan?! (Baby cries) [CHOIR] Dies irae Dies illa Solvet saeclum In favilla Kyrie eleison [CONGREGATION] And the saints regarded Frollo From their stone facade [CHOIR] Kyrie eleison [CONGREGATION] And he felt their gaze As if it were the eyes of God [FROLLO, spoken] Oh, Lord, you've sent me a test. This child is my cross to bear. I may not have saved my brother, but I will save this...thing [FROLLO] See this lonesome creature From whom lesser men would flee I will keep and care for him And teach him at my knee To think like me [CONGREGATION, spoken] And Frollo gave the child a name. A cruel name that means "half-formed..." [FROLLO, spoken] Quasimodo! [CONGREGANT (CLOPIN)] Now here is a riddle to guess if you can Sing the bells of Notre Dame [QUASIMODO] What makes a monster? And what makes a man? [CONGREGATION] What makes a monster and what makes a man? Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells Bells, bells, bells, bells Bells of Notre Dame
Hopefully someday they will bring this to Broadway. Because, people need to hear this marvelous musical played by these marvelous people. Also, that this musical will be nominated and win The Tony Award For Best Musical and be played by the original cast. Not to mention, it ALWAYS gives my ears a great treat . :D
Thank you so so much Grant Graves for your reply...I felt awful and sad... until now I still feel awful and sad that it didn't last long in Broadway, because this Great Musical is a Treasure and a Great Masterpiece and that The World needs to know and hear This Splendid Masterpiece...not to mention The Great VICTOR HUGO which made the Novel Hunchback Of Notre Dame (you can just reflect the Characters and the Story itself with the people around us and to the events that had/is occurred/occurring ) ...also I always want to play Quasimodo... my heart is broken that I can't take the opportunity to play Quasimodo... :'(
So are we just not gonna talk about Frollo's seeing his brother for the first time in years and the first thing he says when he sees his brother's kid, his nephew, is "Yikes it's ugly God must have really hated you" XD
I agree, however, Disney's movie version probably is meant to portray him as a total villian. He has no redeeming qualities in that version compared to here where they follow more with the book than the movie. While the book gives his character depth with somewhat redeeming qualities, though very little, the movie portrays him as a full-on villian.
The extra depth and dimension we get from the book/ musical makes Frollo even more scary as we can see that he is not purely evil for the sake of being evil
I still don't know why they didn't. Jehan's presence (and later death during the fight outside the Cathedral) shows just how much he's given up on Claude as a person capable of good by the end. It really sits differently knowing that someone who entrusted the Archdeacon with his own child now actively fights against his own brother. And I really can't understand the angle that it's too dark. They were able to traumatically kill off characters' parents during the movie's runtime as far back as Bambi. Scar all the kids!
@@ianrose6218 The 40's was another type of story altogether, not even counting on the fact that they all were in the middle of World War II, and still freshly out of leaving the Great Depression behind. You really can't compare the things they did then to the things they do now. The historical context isn't the same. And I mean, I'm pretty sure they managed to kill off Bambi's parents (and many others) because for many it was pretty much a reality.
@@nyx.arlene well that was original some soccer moms didn't like idea of a priest being a villain(what movie and musical main point is a good person might be evil) so they changed story in movie and kept it in musicals
2:57 - "Meanwhile Madison is grappling with the fact that not every issue can be settled by committee..." Surely I'm not the only one who hears Hamilton when they say "meanwhile?"
@@nyx.arlene And Madison responds with Virginian insight: "May be we should solve one problem with another, and win the victory for the Southerners. In other words..."
The soundtrack would beat almost all of Disney's soundtracks It beats Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King and literally everything else
Due to the event that just happened, the choir and the main singers at the beginning and especially the end really just hits hard and it gives me goosebumps because it really captures the beauty of Notre Dame even in its present state. In a recent post I saw regarding this tragedy, one said "Art will be reborn from it's ashes." When I hear the ending of this track that is exactly what I think about.
Well of course, the film was held back by the fact it was a disney animated film, not a whole lot of wiggle room with a G rating to explore these kinds of themes.
To think now this beautiful building, nearly a thousand years of history that took 200 years to build, is burning and turning into ashes. I can’t believe it’s gone. History. We will never get to experience it if we have not and future generations will forget. It’s crazy and I am extremely heartbroken. I keep coming back to this song and musical with the news of its destruction, and it’s crazy that I was listening to it when my mom told me to look at the news. Notre Dame and it’s history will be missed.
You know the one who burned wasn't the original version and has already been rebuilt many times right? And don't worry they will definitely take good care of it since it's one of the most visited buildings
This soundtrack gives me shivers. The melodies and singing are so captivating. Victor Hugo was a literary genius and this musical does a brilliant job of bringing his great novel to life. Thank you Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.
Every child should get to experience live theater. There are reasons it's been so cherished and sought throughout human history. We do tell beautiful stories together, sometimes.
I just read on Twitter that a live-action version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame IS in the works and I can't express how excited I am! The movie and musical are so underrated, it deserves more love. I literally feel giddy about listening to The Bells of Notre Dame, Out There, and the rest of the beautiful soundtrack on the big screen.
Given how shitty a lot of the disney remakes are, it won't be as good. They'll pussify it. Hellfire is already presumably being cut altogether, which is bullshit. Watch Doug Walker/Nostalgia Critic's "Disney Remakes that could actually work" video. Number 1 is The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And I agree with everything he says. Adapt the stage musical. And make it Rated R.
In the musical, according to Jehan, his gypsy lover died of "the pox" which presumably he was dying from as well. Hands up anyone who knows what "the pox" was. (Hint: it wasn't chicken pox.)
I love how they changed the story to include the sub plot of Quasimodo actually being related to Frollo (unless this is a plot in the book that I might missed) it adds a layer of complexity to Frollo’s character that actually shows a softer and more loving side as he took Quasi in not out of his own selfish gain but as he promised his brother he would.
I truly think this to be one of the greatest songs written of all time, specifically this rendition. It’s top tier. It has this ability to give me energy and emotion, much like the effect “One Day More” from Les Mis has on me. It’s powerful. Especially “what makes a monster and what makes a man”, that line GETS ME.
Other than the parts from the Archdeacon in the Disney version, the delivery of his condemnation of what Frollo had done on the steps of Notre Dame were just perfect... But that wouldn't have fit quite right in this version. I do like this version a lot however.
THIS is how you adapt a beloved, epic animated movie into a breathtaking stage musical! Dare I say it, I actually prefer the stage musical. I think it's because they kept all the music the same and where so true to the original with added details that just make the story so much more powerful! Like Frollo's story and Quasimodo being deaf! Amazing work!
This version is sooo much better than the animated film. I liked the animated one, but it veered too far from the book. This isn't totally true to the book either, but much closer
Imagine this version with the outstanding animation of the movie and we have a perfect mix! for example, the version of the musical hellfire is unbelievable, but visually, the animation beats the crap out of it. I'd just love to see this super combo
Especially since the live action version of the Lion King isn't live action at all. It is just a different form of computer animation. Now, give me actual lions and you can call yourself live action.
If anyone lives on the west coast, the 5th Ave theatre in Seattle will be doing their own local production, including using a deaf actor to play Quasimodo and a full university choir. Although 5th Ave theatre hires most local talent, a lot of shows began life at the 5th Ave. Disney's Aladdin was at the 5th Ave starring local star Adam Jacobs. And well, Jacobs has been doing Aladdin on Broadway for like 3 years now. It's kind of cool since Jacobs played Aladdin on a US Tour as well coming back to Seattle but at the Paramount instead. 5th Ave also had the pre-broadway engagement of The Secret Garden starring Tam Mutu. But this version of Haunchback is strictly a 5th Ave production. It's not a pre-broadway one. So if you are local to Seattle or can fly over, then I recommend it. It plays for the first few weeks of June 2018. In a couple weeks. Here is the cast list from 5th Ave Theatre's Facebook site. Plagiarism not intended. Just using it to promote the show. "We are thrilled to announce the full cast of our spectacular new production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which stars Deaf actor Joshua Castille as Quasimodo. A member of the nation’s premiere a capella group, Voctave, E.J. Cardona joins the cast as the Voice of Quasimodo, one of Notre Dame’s gargoyles who conveys Quasimodo’s thoughts through song. Broadway actress Dan’yelle Williamson (Memphis, Scandalous, Roc) makes her 5th Avenue Theatre debut as Esmeralda with Seattle-based musical theater star and 5th Avenue Theatre favorite Allen Fitzpatrick (Broadway: Les Misérables, Memphis. 5th Avenue Theatre: Disney’s The Little Mermaid; Kiss Me, Kate) as Dom Claude Frollo. Musical theater star Brandon O’Neill (Broadway: Disney’s Aladdin; 5th Avenue Theatre: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, Guys and Dolls) joins the cast as Phoebus with comedy master Dane Stokinger (5th Avenue Theatre: Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Monty Python’s Spamalot) as Clopin. The incredible ensemble includes Eric Ankrim, Kody Bringman, Kristin Burch, Jade Solomon Curtis, Candice Donehoo, Davione Gordon, Corinna Lapid Munter, Taylor Niemeyer, Richard Peacock, Zoe Raphael, Aaron Shanks, Greg Stone, Jordan Iosua Taylor, Carolyn Willems Van Dijk and Matt Wolfe. " Off topic: lightning thief, the Percy Jackson musical is also tenatively showing in 2019. No tickets on sale yet.
At a high school in a town near me, they did this musical and one of my closest friends (who was a sophomore at the time) played Quasimodo and it was absolutely amazing
+mmgringoire2 I think it makes more sense this way. Frollo in the disney film hated gypsies just because. but in this version, he felt that the gypsies and their way of life corrupted his brother and led to his death.
+Greed26 I think the movie explained his hatred enough, but the play makes his character more dynamic. That being said, while I appreciate the character development of Frollo in this song, the original version in the animated movie was a better song.
MrGabeanator 85% of the lyrics are different. The newer version is much slower paced, tells a completely different story and is more intimate than epic. Both versions are very good, but they end up feeling like different songs.
After reading both books and watching the live musical of Les Misérables in Queen's Theatre in London, I'D REALLY WANT TO WATCH THIS AS A LIVE MUSICAL IN LONDON TOO!!
You will never hear a better musical opening ever in the history of man kind hands down. The high notes at the end and how long they hold those whistle notes and with how much POWER is so surreal. GOOD LORD!!!! I hope my musical has the same type of power.
Why are there 47 fingers down? I don't understand that... The whole music is such a majestic piece of perfection which gave me in every second goose bumps i've never had before... This is a music which will be on the same step like beethoven, mozart or anyone else of the great composers of mankind. Sadly i just habe two thumbs to pull them up... Thanks alot for this perfect piece of musical history!
I love this musical so much and I've been listenening to these songs over and over again for a very long time, but for some reason this smol song 3:41 gives me such emotion. I honestly think Jehan had the saddest death, bUT YES, QUAS-FACTORS DEATH WAS ABSOLUTELY SAD AND IT WAS BEAUTIFULLL!!!
I was hooked on this soundtrack months ago, way before the fire, and I've just now remembered it. I really didn't think about the Notre Dame part until I listened to it and now I feel much sadder then I did before.
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Les Miserables: The most emotional and blessed musical of the millennium.
Hunchback of Notre Dame: Hold my communion wine...
Les Mis ain't got nothing on Hunchback
Les Mis came out in the 80s, and while the Hunchback of Notre Damd movie came out in 1996, the musical came out in the 2010s. They were also both written by Victor Hugo.
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... holding your communion wine. In another multi-verse, our loathsome, lustful Reverend? He's replaced, by one, who sees the young woman, and feels the voice of God, in his inner-ears, and sees God's grand vision, for the people of NOTRE DAME.
I love how the actor who plays Frollo says "...thing".
That one word has so much emotion as he says it. He is terrified, shocked but submissive. He can say so much with one word. Truly talented!
Ok.
Patrick Page! He's amazing!
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Yes
That line makes me laugh xD
Patrick Page is absolutely iconic!! He was also the original Hades on Broadway for Hadestown!! I'm not sure if he still is, all I know is that he's an amazing singer, especially with bass notes
the day when Alan Menken, Stephen Sondheim, and Stephen Schwartz get together and write a musical is the day that all broadway hell breaks loose
that might be the key combo
WWSHD Try throwing Jason Robert Brown, Lin Manuel Miranda, and Dave Malloy into the mix!
*cough cough* Andrew Lloyd Webber *cough cough*
As a les mis fan I’m obligated to mention Claude Michel Schönberg
@@viktoriakokkinos6256 Who's also responsible for the amazing Miss Saigon except for Les Mis
"And some say the soul of the city's the toll of the bells of Notre Dame" is a far sadder line in light of recent events
Don't remind me. Still they rebuilt it once, they can do it again.
OMG, it beaks my heart!
The soul will live on, even the flames claim the pillars and steeple. For some reason, even if the bells aren’t struck, their tune rings and sing through the streets.
Social Media Lich I was just trying to be poetic damn😂
Kenny Buck but still quite accurate.
That soprano last note though!
That insane top D!!
I mean Im a baritone and I can falsetto it so idk
Tj Samson I think she uses a vocal register that where I live is called whistle: super hard to learn, but the results are truly impressive like in this song.
It happens five times within the entire musical XD
Tj Samson IKR !!!
Did anyone hear the woman on the top note at the end?! Holy cow that is amazing!
Dude that wasn't ONE woman that was 20 metzo soprano belters all singing as high as they can in a whistle tone in unison!!! That's why it sounded so unreal!!! But you're right. Absolutely astounding, didn't even think humans could manifest such awesomeness!
@@brennenfoerst3908 it is gorgeous here with the whistle tone. ....But my favorite is when Paul Kandel, as Clopin in the animation, hits it by himself and floats it for like 16 counts. I hate that the remastered/edited version drowns him out with the chorus.
I do really like this arrangement too though.
That ending was fantastic - so many voices, so many tones, such a perfect harmony!
You sang on this recording, SnowCoveredK?
Grant Graves I have to hot that note 🙃
People say they miss the backstory of the movie, but making Quasimodo Frollo's nephew gives them a more personal relationship and makes Frollo's care of Quasi seem more believable and realistic.
I so agree
Actually, the musical somehow mixes the original story and the Disney story. In the original story is clear that Frollo and Quasimodo are relate, though is not clear the kind of relationship they have, but Frollo is still a monster.
@@schoolaccount6394 Claude frollo was such a monster for trying to burn the gypsies trying to end quasis suffering and trying to burn down Paris
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It makes the film more mature tbh, it shows how not everything is black and white and that circumstances can lead to a good man to do bad deeds. It would be way too much for a child, as most are used to stories about a perfect good guy and a flawed villain
I agree
I like how Frollo is portrayed as a much more well-meaning person like he was in the book. I mean Movie!Frollo was a rocking villain, yes, but Book!Frollo had so many more dimensions to him. I especially like the decision to portray Jehan as Quasimodo's birth father. It adds an extra dimension to Frollo's decision to raise Quasi--wanting to succeed with him where he failed with Jehan (let's not kid ourselves, Frollo's repressed and neurotic, but Jehan's lease on life was not much better. He was in the opposite extreme).
Agree, on everything! 👍
Jehan better human being I would not like a archdeacon father Claude Frollo he is acting like judge Claude Frollo who ratted me out all the time. Frollo is Milton Grimm while Jehan is Giles Grimm who always speakes in riddles yay. Screw Frollo I would go out and party. Live life to the fullest. I have a right to date florica. Come on Frollo is messed up he has lust for his brother's girlfriend. Adultary I will not want anything that belongs to my neighbor or take from my neighbor something like that etc. Me what yes I accept advances from a gypsy girl so what it's true what my brother says I do not get out much and I need a little fun in my life. I can not live the rest of my life stuck inside a church. Family is first not a son of notre dame. But no Frollo case no I need food and water I need a sancuary and home. Plus I am rising through the ranks. Poor Jehan was dragged by Claude Frollo to that church for who knows what reasons. Then jerk Claude Frollo says I find a way to make you a member of the church. No forget it enough with pride but if you have found the true meaning of carrying your own cross. Here is my son who is a product of true love and not fake love something which I doubt you ever understand.
@@elcucy An excellent point (needs more paragraph breaks, though)
@@CJCroen1393 I am disabled so I only do what I can do.
@@elcucy I apologize. I didn't know.
I love that is like a fusion of the Disney one and the book
Yes. I Love.
Yeah, and they also added ideas from their own heads. I'm pretty sure that Frollo didn't have a brother, but him having one in this makes him much more human. It's pretty cool. I also appreciate that the reason Quasimodo stands up at the beginning and the end is because he's dead. I usually HATE magical cures , but this doesn't count, because death isn't a magical cure. It is death. It's also a major plus that quasi Moto didn't die of his disability or some shit, as far as I could tell, because blind and can't see everything on in the video, but it seemed like he died more of a broken heart than anything, which is something that anybody can die of. Perks riders!
@@ZeldaWolf2000 Jehan Frollo is a character in the novel.
Jonathan Bassett Yeah. I actually just learned that today. Thanks for telling me though. If I hadn't learned it, just by coincidence, earlier today, I would've learned it from you. Spreading the knowledge! ☺️
Jonathan Bassett
Higher they are longer the fall.
Hearing them go into unison at 5:37, when they sing "as if it were the eyes of God," is absolutely breathtaking. It's like the composers were playing into the fact that Catholicism is monotheistic... to Frollo, there is only one God, and that God, to him, ends up being the ultimate judge (and the only pair of eyes that'll matter in the end).
YASSSSS!!!!
"And the saints regarded Frollo from their stone facade,
And he felt their gaze as if it were the eyes of God..."
Fuckin' Stephen Schwartz, man.
"Now here is a riddle to guess, if you can," Sing the bells of Notre Dame "What makes a monster, and what makes a man?"
Yes.
My absolute favourite part of this song!! So powerfull! It lifts your spirit to the freaking Heavens and fills you with such awe and emotion... UGH I LOVE IT!!
That
was
BEAUTIFUL!!!
A performance as epic as the original film's opening. O_O
bruh chill
darthstarkiller1912 is
No, its better.
I fangirled at hearing “Jehan”. I loved the book, and how they worked it made me happy
It was a daring try, but I feel the narrative and dialogue could’ve been tweaked, in my opinion. It doesn’t show here, but this prologue goes on for 11 and a half minutes, telling of how Jehan brought a Romani prostitute Florika for Claude’s birthday, only for Father Dupin to catch them with her, Claude exposing her to Dupin, which makes Dupin expel Jehan, and after Claude became the Archdeacon he discovered that Jehan has been going around and he and Florika have the pox, which killed her earlier, leaving Jehan with Quasimodo who he gives to Claude when he dies.
I remember watching this show(blessed by my Aunt Jeanne, who was able to get tickets for her, me, and my dad) at the La Jolla playhouse, and while I liked that they were allowed to change the narrative, I didn’t feel it made for that of a clear or compelling tone for the show(it’s dark, yes, but self mocking as well?), for I honestly was so annoyed by the “humor” they try to do with uninteresting dialogue(like the “Jehan” and “Florika” “LEFT” bit after Dupin expels them, or dragging the King Louie scene), and I felt like I was supposed to see something significant about how these events unfolded but it was too exposition like for me to comprehend the inner meaning of what’s happening(like how in the book, for example, Notre Dame is described becoming an extension of Quasimodo’s body when he prepares to stop the vagabonds from getting into Notre Dame).
Plus, the way they pronounce Jehan’s name here is incorrect. As the Charles Laughton film pointed out (which is the version Disney pulled the most from for the 1996 film), his name isn’t pronounced like it is spelled (Jay ann), it’s pronounced more like Jean but the “n” is more silent.
Personally, from reading the book myself, I was hoping they’d allow Claude to start off with a more sympathetic personality, and did this prologue like the book, not just talking about how he found Quasimodo on the orphan bed and compassionately decided to raise him as his own, but maybe even talk about how Esmeralda was replaced by Quasimodo as a child and stolen from her prostitute mother. I’m sure there’s a way you could write out the script for a sequence of events(with SOME retooling to make it not vilify the Romani folk(like how the Charles Laughton film presented their plight as just a plight. Or this song from the original 1999 Berlin show, Balancing Act/Tanz Auf Dem Seil, which did the same by describing the roles they have to play to be allowed to stay in Paris(beggar, performer, and scapegoat), as well as introducing Esmeralda as a person before her dance, and I WISH it wasn’t cut from this version of the show! Side note: “Gypsy” is a well known European racial slur towards the Romanis, but it seems that wasn’t addressed to the creators until “In a Place of Miracles”) matching the same dramatic energy of the film score(especially with the music when Judge Frollo realizes its a deformed baby and tries to drop it in the well, only for the archdeacon to stop him. Maybe you could do that same music to some Parisian folk discovering the baby at the founders window, panic at him, and THEY try to throw him in the well, and it’s young priest Claude who stops them and chides them for their attempted murder with musical lines like the archdeacon’s in the movie). Finally, when he decides to raise the child as his own, out of genuine compassion, he names child ambiguously, not cruelly, after either Low Sunday or for the “Half formed” translation, but keep the audience pondering about it as they are asked “Who is the monster, and who is the man”(which I wish they kept for this current version of the show). It’s not clear what to believe at first, and that’s the point. The sequence of events that follows, Claude’s transformation to a “monster”, to Quasimodo’s killing of Frollo as a “man”, should point out how such generalizations as the first riddle aren’t that easy to answer in real life, that instead we’d be better guessing the final riddle “what makes a monster and what makes a man”. Also, I’m sure you could make Jehan a present character in the story, maybe acting as a co MC with Clopin during Topsy Turvey, and maybe have Quasimodo indirectly murder him with the molten lead, which Claude sees, etc.
In the original 1999 Berlin stage version of this show(which is more like the Disney film, but with gothic tone elements from the novel), there’s a song called Sanctuary/Zuflucht that expands Frollo and Quasimodo’s duet at the start of Out There into it’s own song. It talks of Frollo’s backstory(which is where you could bring up his childhood of learning, to his parents dying of the plague, bringing his baby brother Jehan to a mill, and how all this might play in his rationalization of fate), and also has a counterpoint of the gargoyles(or the congregation here), who are established imaginary characters Quasimodo thinks up to talk with, say the opposite of what Frollo says of the world to convince Quasi to go out(also Out There is Quasi’s own solo track in that recording).
Sorry if this was too long, or critical of your viewpoint. I’m glad to hear someone happy about this version of the prologue, but I’m still kinda stuck in my own view of what the show should be like(mostly deriving from the 1999 version’s original script and direction by James Lapine(the same guy who did Falsettos with William Finn, Into the Woods and other shows with Stephen Sondheim(Sweeney Todd), etc.) which I feel does a better job at consistent tone establishment with a just a nice bit of dry humor puns to make it feel lively. Also, I’m really mad that Thomas Schumacher kicked James off the project when Alan Menken had said they were going to use James’ book, but I digress).
In fact, I’m actually writing my own libretto for this show, pulling from the best parts of both stage versions(and implementing the changes and ideas I previously mentioned), and best unused sections of the film score, to create a version of this story that, while not necessarily fallowing the misanthropic tone of the book, at least is able to show that world(with all it’s cruelties of fate) capable of upholding the messages the songs in this show promotes(“Someday” for example) but also crafting narrative elements to bolster what the creator’s only went half way with(I wasn’t sure what the point of the Tavern scene was, and felt like something bad was gonna happen in that scene, like having it be THERE where Frollo tries to stab Phoebus, rather than that weird stab and blame bit he does in “Esmeralda”). I’m not sure when I’ll ever finish the whole thing, but I hope to be ready to share my version of the prologue and the finale “one day, someday, soon(🤗).”
I first thought of Jehan like Jean Prouvaire from Les Mis...
Reading Les Miserables first, then diving into this, I can't unthink of the same Jehan in Les Mis.
@@michaelwilliamybarra2409 Your comment is so interesting!! Thank you so much, I really enjoyed reading it and it taught me a lot!
I had goosebumps only hearing Frollo say "Quasimodo"!
Me too!!
Heshallsmite Thewicked you knew what was coming...
It's got a mix of Sweeney Todd and Les Misérables vibes. This version is absolutely beautiful and gives me chills as the movie did. I want this on Broadway!!! Or if they choose to tour, I would see this in a heartbeat!
I was legit listening to this song and being like "... is that the dies irae?" (musical motif/pattern/whateverthecorrectterm is that is in both Sweeney Todd and Les Mis that has 'death'/'bad vibes' connotations) and then I realize the voices in the background are *literally saying* "dies irae" XDDDDD
Bells Of Notre Dame Lyrics:
[CONGREGANT (CLOPIN)]
Morning in Paris
The city awakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
[CONGREGATION]
The fisherman fishes
The baker-man bakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
To the big bells as loud as the thunder
To the little bells soft as a psalm
And some say the soul of
The city's the toll of
The bells
The bells of Notre Dame
Long years ago did this story begin
In this place of Notre Dame
Two orphan brothers were both taken in
By the grace of Notre Dame
[CONGREGANT (FROLLO)]
Claude, the older, who cared for his brother
[CONGREGANT (JEHAN)]
Young Jehan, full of beauty and charm
[BOTH]
And they lived and they grew
And awoke to the music
Of bells
[CONGREGATION]
The bells of Notre Dame
[CHOIR]
Kyrie Eleison
[FROLLO]
Oh, dear brother
'Neath these arches and this sacred dome
[CHOIR]
Kyrie Eleison
[FROLLO]
We are blessed to find our sanctuary
And our home
[CONGREGATION]
Righteous Claude Frollo
Was ever more drawn
Like a son to Notre Dame
[CONGREGANT (JEHAN)]
Not like his profligate brother Jehan
Who'd have none of Notre Dame
[CONGREGATION]
Though as brothers they loved one another
Frollo watched in despair and alarm
As Jehan who grew more wild
And defied and defiled
All the laws
The laws of Notre Dame
[CHOIR]
Kyrie Eleison
[FATHER DUPIN]
You must leave, Jehan
This holy refuge where you've dwelled
[CHOIR]
Kyrie Eleison
[FROLLO, spoken]
Leave? But, Father...
[FATHER DUPIN]
Sorry, Claude, but I've no choice
Your brother is expelled
[CONGREGANT (FROLLO), spoken]
And Frollo didn't hear from his brother for several years
[CONGREGATION]
Meanwhile
Frollo ascended uncommonly fast
Through the ranks of Notre Dame
Till he was named the Archdeacon at last
And gave thanks to Notre Dame
And then one doleful day got a message
[CONGREGANT (FROLLO)]
And the name that it bore was "Jehan"
[CONGREGATION]
And concealing his face
Frollo stole to a place
Far away
Away from Notre Dame
[FROLLO, spoken]
Jehan! Let me take you back. I'll bring you home
[FROLLO]
Brother, dearest, come with me
Where we will find a remedy
And Notre Dame once more will be
Your sanctuary
Healing you will be my goal
Not just your body but your soul
We'll be together in our
Holy sanctuary
[JEHAN, spoken]
Enough, Claude! It's too late for me, anyway. But if you have truly discovered charity at this late date, there is someone you can help
[FROLLO, spoken]
A baby? Yours? Oh - a monster! It's God's judgment on you! The wicked shall not go unpunished!
[JEHAN, spoken]
I should have known. I was a fool to think that you would look after him
[FROLLO, spoken]
Look after him? Me?
[JEHAN, spoken]
He has nobody else. Take him. If you can find it in your heart
[FROLLO, spoken]
Jehan...Jehan?!
(Baby cries)
[CHOIR]
Dies irae
Dies illa
Solvet saeclum
In favilla
Kyrie eleison
[CONGREGATION]
And the saints regarded Frollo
From their stone facade
[CHOIR]
Kyrie eleison
[CONGREGATION]
And he felt their gaze
As if it were the eyes of God
[FROLLO, spoken]
Oh, Lord, you've sent me a test. This child is my cross to bear. I may not have saved my brother, but I will save this...thing
[FROLLO]
See this lonesome creature
From whom lesser men would flee
I will keep and care for him
And teach him at my knee
To think like me
[CONGREGATION, spoken]
And Frollo gave the child a name. A cruel name that means "half-formed..."
[FROLLO, spoken]
Quasimodo!
[CONGREGANT (CLOPIN)]
Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
[QUASIMODO]
What makes a monster?
And what makes a man?
[CONGREGATION]
What makes a monster and what makes a man?
Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells, bells, bells, bells
Bells of Notre Dame
THANK YOU
I wish there was i way to copy this
Yeah thanks
My goosebumps got goosebumps on it's goosebumps, damn!
BobvanKay lol I know how you feel. my sis got to be in this musical (the very first non-professional performance) and I'm sooooooo jealous :)
You need to have goosebumps. You need to have goosebumps on your goosebumps. You need to have goosebumps on your eyeballs.
BobvanKay 1a8a
Me: This soundtrack can't get any more epic!
Disney: HE DOUBTS OUR POWER!
*XD*
More like Alan Menken! XD
Hopefully someday they will bring this to Broadway. Because, people need to hear this marvelous musical played by these marvelous people. Also, that this musical will be nominated and win The Tony Award For Best Musical and be played by the original cast. Not to mention, it ALWAYS gives my ears a great treat . :D
Rej Michael Isaac Fuentes This is the broadway performance it was only showing for a short time though
Thank you so so much Grant Graves for your reply...I felt awful and sad... until now I still feel awful and sad that it didn't last long in Broadway, because this Great Musical is a Treasure and a Great Masterpiece and that The World needs to know and hear This Splendid Masterpiece...not to mention The Great VICTOR HUGO which made the Novel Hunchback Of Notre Dame (you can just reflect the Characters and the Story itself with the people around us and to the events that had/is occurred/occurring ) ...also I always want to play Quasimodo... my heart is broken that I can't take the opportunity to play Quasimodo... :'(
It actually never made it to Broadway, this is the off broadway performance. Sorry :/
They could bring it to broadway because the size of the cast (choir included) and the money it would take to pay everyone
Agree!!
"And he felt their gazes, if it were the eyes of God"
Damn, Just got chills from that line
Wow! They made the plot more like the original story by Victor Hugo, usually that doesn't happen.
the whole song is brilliant but 6:52 onwards legitimately gives me chills every time
I get frission past that point as well!
So are we just not gonna talk about Frollo's seeing his brother for the first time in years and the first thing he says when he sees his brother's kid, his nephew, is "Yikes it's ugly God must have really hated you" XD
Okay, yes, but can we TALK about how much emotion the line "I may not have saved my brother, but I will save this... thing." HAS??
THAT ENDING IS SO EPIC AND POWERFUL I'M LEGITIMATELY CRYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bells bells bells bells bells bells. bells. bells.. Bells of Notre Dame!!!!!! luv that. part.. :)
Same
Yeah today I was singing that all day long, out loud ... bells bells bells of Notre Dame!!!
To the fucking Heavens...
I still can't get over those insanely high metzo-soprano whistle notes at the end!! So impressive!
I think they should have included Frollo's novel backstory in the Disney film. It adds so much more depth to his character
I agree, however, Disney's movie version probably is meant to portray him as a total villian. He has no redeeming qualities in that version compared to here where they follow more with the book than the movie. While the book gives his character depth with somewhat redeeming qualities, though very little, the movie portrays him as a full-on villian.
The extra depth and dimension we get from the book/ musical makes Frollo even more scary as we can see that he is not purely evil for the sake of being evil
I still don't know why they didn't. Jehan's presence (and later death during the fight outside the Cathedral) shows just how much he's given up on Claude as a person capable of good by the end. It really sits differently knowing that someone who entrusted the Archdeacon with his own child now actively fights against his own brother.
And I really can't understand the angle that it's too dark. They were able to traumatically kill off characters' parents during the movie's runtime as far back as Bambi. Scar all the kids!
@@ianrose6218 The 40's was another type of story altogether, not even counting on the fact that they all were in the middle of World War II, and still freshly out of leaving the Great Depression behind.
You really can't compare the things they did then to the things they do now. The historical context isn't the same.
And I mean, I'm pretty sure they managed to kill off Bambi's parents (and many others) because for many it was pretty much a reality.
@@nyx.arlene well that was original some soccer moms didn't like idea of a priest being a villain(what movie and musical main point is a good person might be evil) so they changed story in movie and kept it in musicals
2:57 - "Meanwhile Madison is grappling with the fact that not every issue can be settled by committee..." Surely I'm not the only one who hears Hamilton when they say "meanwhile?"
Steph Piano y e s !
Congress is fighting over where to put the Capital...
*!!!!!*
It isn't pretty.
Oh gods yes
@@wandanemer2630 then Jefferson approaches with a dinner and invite
@@nyx.arlene And Madison responds with Virginian insight:
"May be we should solve one problem with another, and win the victory for the Southerners. In other words..."
As a chorus geek, I have to say this musical has the most beautiful score I’ve ever heard
This is easily one the TOP BEST Disney songs of all time and should have won way more awards. SO underrated!
The soundtrack would beat almost all of Disney's soundtracks
It beats Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King and literally everything else
I want this musical to have a long run on Broadway someday. Its creators deserve it.
Yeah, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz really do
Due to the event that just happened, the choir and the main singers at the beginning and especially the end really just hits hard and it gives me goosebumps because it really captures the beauty of Notre Dame even in its present state. In a recent post I saw regarding this tragedy, one said "Art will be reborn from it's ashes." When I hear the ending of this track that is exactly what I think about.
So hard to listen to this right now 😭😭
Such an incredible musical...probably the best I've ever seen. Much deeper and more powerful than the movie.
Well of course, the film was held back by the fact it was a disney animated film, not a whole lot of wiggle room with a G rating to explore these kinds of themes.
This really was the most powerful piece of any of these guys' collaborations.
To think now this beautiful building, nearly a thousand years of history that took 200 years to build, is burning and turning into ashes. I can’t believe it’s gone. History. We will never get to experience it if we have not and future generations will forget. It’s crazy and I am extremely heartbroken. I keep coming back to this song and musical with the news of its destruction, and it’s crazy that I was listening to it when my mom told me to look at the news. Notre Dame and it’s history will be missed.
You know the one who burned wasn't the original version and has already been rebuilt many times right? And don't worry they will definitely take good care of it since it's one of the most visited buildings
It always gives me chills when the melody switches from whatever it is to the 'Sanctuary' melody
This soundtrack gives me shivers. The melodies and singing are so captivating. Victor Hugo was a literary genius and this musical does a brilliant job of bringing his great novel to life.
Thank you Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.
Every child should get to experience live theater. There are reasons it's been so cherished and sought throughout human history. We do tell beautiful stories together, sometimes.
I was absolutely heartbroken today hearing about the terrible event taking place in Paris today. My respects to a wonderful city ❤
I adore this... And EVERY Kirye Eleison makes me *shiver!*
I just read on Twitter that a live-action version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame IS in the works and I can't express how excited I am! The movie and musical are so underrated, it deserves more love. I literally feel giddy about listening to The Bells of Notre Dame, Out There, and the rest of the beautiful soundtrack on the big screen.
Given how shitty a lot of the disney remakes are, it won't be as good. They'll pussify it. Hellfire is already presumably being cut altogether, which is bullshit.
Watch Doug Walker/Nostalgia Critic's "Disney Remakes that could actually work" video. Number 1 is The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And I agree with everything he says. Adapt the stage musical. And make it Rated R.
Can't take this song of my head on this dreadful day... 💔🖤😭
In the musical, according to Jehan, his gypsy lover died of "the pox" which presumably he was dying from as well. Hands up anyone who knows what "the pox" was. (Hint: it wasn't chicken pox.)
Hugh S The Bubonic one?
It was a slang for syphilis.
It was an outbreak of Smallpox
I have no words. I haven't.
This never made it to Broadway i was told...but...how...this is incredible.
The ensemble would cost too much
Frozen that's what happened.
And the story is too dark for Disney, which is just BS
im actually so obsessed with this song i utilized it for my college app lmao
I am dumbstruck. This was absolutely glorious. Tears streaming.
The intro is so powerfull
The theme in the beginning is soooo. Chills
I love how they changed the story to include the sub plot of Quasimodo actually being related to Frollo (unless this is a plot in the book that I might missed) it adds a layer of complexity to Frollo’s character that actually shows a softer and more loving side as he took Quasi in not out of his own selfish gain but as he promised his brother he would.
Frollo is still a horrible person though
honestly one of the most intense intros to a musical ever and yet its soooo underrated. broadway, why.....
I truly think this to be one of the greatest songs written of all time, specifically this rendition. It’s top tier. It has this ability to give me energy and emotion, much like the effect “One Day More” from Les Mis has on me. It’s powerful.
Especially “what makes a monster and what makes a man”, that line GETS ME.
You hit Frollo for 30 damage! Frollo uses holy strike of hypocrisy *he accidently hit himself in confusion. *Frollo is now on fire
Too real. 😂
5:23 is the best part of this song ( the bells of notre dame ) the powerful choirs part too.
When the goosebumps be so bad that even they grow arms with goosebumps on them.
It is just SOOOOOOOOOOOO gooooooood!!!
I personally love this backstory much more than in the movie, anyone agree?
Other than the parts from the Archdeacon in the Disney version, the delivery of his condemnation of what Frollo had done on the steps of Notre Dame were just perfect... But that wouldn't have fit quite right in this version. I do like this version a lot however.
I do
Watching Notre Dame burn while listening to this soundtrack is trippy and honestly very emotional
absolute perfection this song is awesome
THIS is how you adapt a beloved, epic animated movie into a breathtaking stage musical! Dare I say it, I actually prefer the stage musical. I think it's because they kept all the music the same and where so true to the original with added details that just make the story so much more powerful! Like Frollo's story and Quasimodo being deaf! Amazing work!
The woman doing that last note. mother of god that´s the voice of an angel.
This version is sooo much better than the animated film. I liked the animated one, but it veered too far from the book. This isn't totally true to the book either, but much closer
They certainly improved the gargoyles.
jp3813 Lol yes, they did
How he says Notre Dame at 0:29 is one of my favorite musical moments ever
at 7:05 I went *numb*
Same here
@@stephpiano2908 no. tu eres un platano
I don´t know how to say how much I love you right now XD Thanks for posting
Hahaha my pleasure.
+Adam Ostrowski could you try to upload "out there" please?? =)
I am. SO. OVERWHELMINGLY. HAPPY. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!
Imagine this version with the outstanding animation of the movie and we have a perfect mix! for example, the version of the musical hellfire is unbelievable, but visually, the animation beats the crap out of it. I'd just love to see this super combo
came here because of the fire 😭
Now, THAT is a hell of an intro!!!!
So beautiful 🥹🤧
Heartbroken. 💔
Gives me chills just like the movie. So beautiful.
Where has this musical been all my life?
I did this show as part of central washington university ensemble. An experience ill never forget.
Disney I beg you please don't make this live action Lion King and do The Hunchback of Notre Dame instead.
Skyla 2000 yeah disney already made jungle book
Especially since the live action version of the Lion King isn't live action at all. It is just a different form of computer animation. Now, give me actual lions and you can call yourself live action.
Skyla 2000
Omg yes this needs to be a live action movie asap! But they probably won't do it because it's so underrated.
they would probably ruin it
Tiernan D. Agreed
_Healing you will be my goal_
_Not just your body, but your soul_
_We’ll be together in our holy sanctuary_
Healing you will be my goal
Not just your body, but your soul
We'll be together in our holy sanctuary.
Seeing this live has just been added to my buketlist
Listening to this makes me want to find the book and reread it! It's been too long!
"Though as brothers they loved one another"
His voice is lovely 😍
Nothing makes my heart sing like the sound of Clopin’s voice
If anyone lives on the west coast, the 5th Ave theatre in Seattle will be doing their own local production, including using a deaf actor to play Quasimodo and a full university choir. Although 5th Ave theatre hires most local talent, a lot of shows began life at the 5th Ave. Disney's Aladdin was at the 5th Ave starring local star Adam Jacobs. And well, Jacobs has been doing Aladdin on Broadway for like 3 years now. It's kind of cool since Jacobs played Aladdin on a US Tour as well coming back to Seattle but at the Paramount instead. 5th Ave also had the pre-broadway engagement of The Secret Garden starring Tam Mutu. But this version of Haunchback is strictly a 5th Ave production. It's not a pre-broadway one.
So if you are local to Seattle or can fly over, then I recommend it. It plays for the first few weeks of June 2018. In a couple weeks.
Here is the cast list from 5th Ave Theatre's Facebook site. Plagiarism not intended. Just using it to promote the show.
"We are thrilled to announce the full cast of our spectacular new production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, which stars Deaf actor Joshua Castille as Quasimodo. A member of the nation’s premiere a capella group, Voctave, E.J. Cardona joins the cast as the Voice of Quasimodo, one of Notre Dame’s gargoyles who conveys Quasimodo’s thoughts through song.
Broadway actress Dan’yelle Williamson (Memphis, Scandalous, Roc) makes her 5th Avenue Theatre debut as Esmeralda with Seattle-based musical theater star and 5th Avenue Theatre favorite
Allen Fitzpatrick (Broadway: Les Misérables, Memphis. 5th Avenue Theatre: Disney’s The Little Mermaid; Kiss Me, Kate) as Dom Claude Frollo.
Musical theater star Brandon O’Neill (Broadway: Disney’s Aladdin; 5th Avenue Theatre: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, Guys and Dolls) joins the cast as Phoebus with comedy master Dane Stokinger (5th Avenue Theatre: Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Monty Python’s Spamalot) as Clopin.
The incredible ensemble includes Eric Ankrim, Kody Bringman, Kristin Burch, Jade Solomon Curtis, Candice Donehoo, Davione Gordon, Corinna Lapid Munter, Taylor Niemeyer, Richard Peacock, Zoe Raphael, Aaron Shanks, Greg Stone, Jordan Iosua Taylor, Carolyn Willems Van Dijk and Matt Wolfe. "
Off topic: lightning thief, the Percy Jackson musical is also tenatively showing in 2019. No tickets on sale yet.
At a high school in a town near me, they did this musical and one of my closest friends (who was a sophomore at the time) played Quasimodo and it was absolutely amazing
Victoria Jensen my school (UK) are doing the hunchback and it’s a lot of work but I love it 🤩
I miss the old opening with Quasimodo's mother and Frollo's hatred of gypsies, but still a beautiful song adds another layer to Frollo.
No I just miss Clopin's narration
+mmgringoire2 I think it makes more sense this way. Frollo in the disney film hated gypsies just because. but in this version, he felt that the gypsies and their way of life corrupted his brother and led to his death.
+yoyoeldas me too
+Greed26 I think the movie explained his hatred enough, but the play makes his character more dynamic.
That being said, while I appreciate the character development of Frollo in this song, the original version in the animated movie was a better song.
MrGabeanator 85% of the lyrics are different. The newer version is much slower paced, tells a completely different story and is more intimate than epic. Both versions are very good, but they end up feeling like different songs.
Oh gosh... this brought TEARS to my eyes and soul!!! Outstanding, UTTERLY outstanding.
After reading both books and watching the live musical of Les Misérables in Queen's Theatre in London, I'D REALLY WANT TO WATCH THIS AS A LIVE MUSICAL IN LONDON TOO!!
You will never hear a better musical opening ever in the history of man kind hands down. The high notes at the end and how long they hold those whistle notes and with how much POWER is so surreal. GOOD LORD!!!! I hope my musical has the same type of power.
Woah it's different! I hope the staging would be interesting! Frollo.... I'm a bit sad because I was excited with the gypsy chase
OMG, the ending of the song still gives me chills even after 24 years! It's among the very best!
Listening to this after hearing about what happened to Notre Dame.....
THE END OMG
THE ENDING OH MY GOD
What makes a monster and what makes a men it's a line that hits me so hard
When they said meanwhile I only thought of hamilton
Listening to this soundtrack the whole way through because I'm too poor to watch the stage play, and have already seen the film 10,000 times 😅
This song gives me chills every time. I would have killed to see this play.
Why are there 47 fingers down? I don't understand that...
The whole music is such a majestic piece of perfection which gave me in every second goose bumps i've never had before...
This is a music which will be on the same step like beethoven, mozart or anyone else of the great composers of mankind.
Sadly i just habe two thumbs to pull them up...
Thanks alot for this perfect piece of musical history!
I love this musical so much and I've been listenening to these songs over and over again for a very long time, but for some reason this smol song 3:41 gives me such emotion. I honestly think Jehan had the saddest death, bUT YES, QUAS-FACTORS DEATH WAS ABSOLUTELY SAD AND IT WAS BEAUTIFULLL!!!
I was hooked on this soundtrack months ago, way before the fire, and I've just now remembered it. I really didn't think about the Notre Dame part until I listened to it and now I feel much sadder then I did before.