Bell-1  "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is a spectacular musical with a wide range of music. From the raw emotion of chorus numbers such as "Down On Our Luck" to the spiralling and beautiful "Kyrie" set in the cathedral of Notre Dame, it provides humour, sadness and the story of unrequited love together with lust, murder and corruption. Written by John Trent-Wallace, with lyrics by Gary Sullivan, the show premiered at the Mermaid Theatre London with the Essex Group, Gary's own Theatre Company, before being made available to other groups in association with Samuel French of London.

Quasimodo  "Hunchback" needs little explanation, for the story of Quasimodo the bellringer is a familiar one. Hugo's story has provided a beautiful backdrop of characters on which Gary Sullivan has woven his story. He has lifted Quasimodo from the book and made him the central character.

This is the show with everything; demanding and getting from audiences reactions to a wide spectrum of emotions; from pathos to comedy, bawdy lyrics to love songs, violent death to loving tenderness. The characters fill the stage, ranging from Jester to Archbishop, poet to cut-throat, street urchins to bourgeoisie, along with hags, whores, thieves and villains, and central to everything, the poignant, pathetic figure of Quasimodo, the hunchback.

Gary Sullivan and John Trent Wallace have produced a phenomenal piece of work in the writing of this musical which transports its audiences back to the streets of fifteenth century Paris, where the citizens, hags, whores and thieves of the city lived out their lives by whatever means they could, under the brooding gaze of the great cathedral of Notre Dame.
 

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