The birth of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame":

The musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is also known as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". In the past few years, Disney filmed the animated film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It had quite an impact and is still recalled by many people (especially children). The movie "Notre Dame de Paris" shot in France and the UK has also been introduced to China and dubbed. I remember seeing it on TV more than ten years ago.

The musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" became popular much later than the novel and movie. In 1993, French-Canadian playwright Luc Plamondon began writing the musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." Plamondon was a late-blooming lyricist. He had been writing lyrics and scripts since the 1950s, but he did not really become famous until the late 1970s. He is now considered the finest French lyricist.

In 1993, French songwriters Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg had already composed "Les Misérables" and "Miss Saigon" ", both plays achieved brilliant success, allowing the world to see the French's ability to create musicals. This situation somewhat motivated Plamondon. He took a fancy to Hugo's other novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and was deeply impressed by the charm of the novel. It must be a great achievement to put such a masterpiece that has been engraved in the hearts of people around the world on the stage of a musical. Good choice. Plamondon found Richard Cocciante, a French musical talent who was already well-known in Europe and the United States at that time. The two hit it off. In the three years from 1994 to 1996, Plamondon composed "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". ” wrote 600 pages of notes and the lyrics of more than 30 songs. At the end of 1996, the two of them collaborated to complete the three-hour large-scale musical "Notre Dame de Paris" with 50 pieces of music, more than 40 songs.

Like "Les Misérables", "Notre Dame de Paris" is also adapted from the novel by the great French writer Hugo. Facts have proved that Hugo's novel does have the quality to be adapted into a musical, and it has been adapted into a musical. Three of Hugo's novels, "Les Misérables", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Cromwell", have been adapted into musicals, and all have achieved considerable success.

In 1997, Plamondon hired Canadian director Gilles Msheu as director, and the famous French "Charles Talar" performing arts company invested in the production of the musical "Notre Dame de Paris" ", "Charles Talar" performing arts company is the most famous performance production company in France and has created a large number of world-class performing arts stars. In the same year, the "Notre Dame de Paris" Theater Company Co., Ltd. was established and began regular production.

The troupe members of "Notre Dame de Paris" *** include 24 ensemble actors, 7 leading actors, 30 stage artists, 15 technical staff and several administrative staff. After a year of preparations, the troupe grandly staged it in Paris on September 16, 1998, which caused a strong artistic shock. In the remaining three months of 1998, "Notre Dame de Paris" was performed for 126 consecutive performances, attracting 500,000 people. All tickets are sold out. In less than a year, two million tickets were sold, making it the most successful musical of all time in France, breaking the previous record held by Les Misérables.

In the next few years, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" began a world tour, achieving a record of more than 4 million direct theater audiences. The countries toured include: Brussels, Belgium, and Montreal, Canada. , Geneva in Switzerland, London in the UK, Milan in Italy, Moscow in Russia, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Libon in Lebanon, etc. The tour was a success, with rave reviews and CDs selling out of stock. So far, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" has sold nearly 7 million records, more than 1 million videos, and nearly 200,000 DVDs. The single "Belle" in the play has won many famous world music awards. Awards and has been covered by many singers.

The musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" also won France's "Best Performance of the Year Award", "Best Track of the Year Award", and "Best Song of the Century Audience Award". It won the "Best Record Award", "Best Performance Award of the Year", "Best Church Song Award", and "Best Director of the Year Award" in Quebec, Canada.

Won the "World Music Award for Best Sales of a French Album" in Monaco.

In January 2000, the English version of "Notre Dame de Paris" was born, which meant that "Notre Dame de Paris" truly entered the world's musical stage. In May 2000, the troupe officially Paris de France moved to London's West End in the hope of greater success.

Novel and plot:

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is Hugo's first large-scale romantic novel. The novel tells a story of ups and downs in France in the 15th century. It exposes the hypocrisy of religion and declares the bankruptcy of asceticism. It also describes the kindness and helplessness of the lower class working people. It is a masterpiece that expresses Hugo's humanitarian thoughts.

The plot of the musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is basically the same as the plot of the novel, and there are no major changes in the characters. Relatively speaking, the bigger character adjustment is the character Guerringo in the play. In addition to playing the titular husband of the troubadour and gypsy girl Amy Slada in the novel, he also serves as the narrator of the storyline. It has the role of telling the plot and transitional paragraphs.