"Years later, in the crypts below Notre Dame, there were discovered two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of them was a woman with a woven band around her neck. The second was that of a man, whose spinal column was crooked. When they tried to detach the skeleton he held in his arms, he crumbled to dust."
What's even creepier about this is that the human body decays faster than it takes to die of thirst. So he must have sat down there for days, and Esmeralda would already be rotting after just one day. He sat down there holding a rotting corpse for days before dying himself.
"The world is cruel, the world is ugly, but there are times and there are people when the world is not and at its cruelest, its still the only world we've got" So powerful.
Natalie Brown someday life will be kinder, love will be blinder some new afternoon. Godspeed this bright millennium. Hope lives on. Wish upon the moon. Let it come, one day. Someday soon
something I never see commented is when Frollo starts to burn Esmerelda, in a lot of the productions, it has her screaming- horrified that she's about to die a horrific death. It sends shivers down your spine, its absolutely gut-wrenching. I think the reason being is because she's portrayed as so, so brave throughout the play. She's given the chance to save herself, and chooses TWICE to rather die than become Frollo's wife. But it doesn't absolve her of fear, especially fear of death. Its why I love the fact the musical points out that despite what anyone beliefs (in the musical's canon) her spirit goes to heaven at the end, proving she was a good and worthy person regardless of her beliefs, and ending her suffering. Goddamn this musical is so tragic and beautiful and sad T_T
When we did it last year. Our Esmeralda screamed a truly blood curdling scream, you could feel it down your spine. But being part of the architecture during that part you could only watch in horror until you could move. Lol
It wasnt really his "wife". More like his slave. Her had an intense sexual attraction which he justified with love but it most certainly was not. However, in my production of this, Esmeralda screamed a lot in that scene and the sexual assault scene. It was very...raw
@@katalyst9653 so true ;/ I also screamed when Frollo tried to r4pe Esmeralda, that scene was so... ugh🤢... and there are people who shipp Esme and him. Yeah... unfortunately.
For anyone who doesn’t know, at 8:22 that’s the ghosts of Jehan (Frollo’s brother and Quisimodo’s father) and Florika (Quasimodo’s mother) singing “the wicked shall not go unpunished / the heart of the wicked is of little worth” while Quasimodo is about to kill Frollo. The one time Quasi and his parents are seen “together”. Also at 11:00 is also Florika singing
Oooh I’m Florika in my college’s production, and I when I was listening to that part (11:00) just now I was really hoping it was mine (we don’t have scripts yet cause the cast list just came out tonight), but now I’m super excited!!!
Timestamps for anyone who wants to skip around!: 0:00 - Judex Crederis _(Judge of Faith)_ 0:28 - The Sentencing of Esmeralda (Kyrie Eleison) 1:30 - Libera Me Domine _(Deliver me Lord)_ / Stone No Longer 2:31 - Sanctuary! 2:54 - Ramming the Doors / Dies Irae _(Day of Wrath)_ 3:13 - Someday (Phoebus' Reprise) 3:39 - "With one final blow..." / Vats of Molten Lead 4:00 - Made of Stone (Reprise) 4:46 - Top of the World (Reprise) 6:31 - Frollo enters 7:01 - Esmeralda (Reprise) / Our Sanctuary 7:46 - The Argument 8:17 - The Wicked Shall Not Go Unpunished 8:43 - "Yes you _do..."_ / Frollo's Death 9:19 - Out There (Reprise) 10:34 - Florika Solo (Olim (Reprise)) 11:18 - Someday (Reprise) 12:13 - The Bells of Notre Dame (Reprise)
CJCroen1393 its so sad and so true, im so glad this is part of the musical as opposed to the movie. its just so powerful and meaningful, especially after being in the show, it changes everything.
"You don't want to hurt me!" _"Yes you do..."_ I can never get over the significance of that line...yes, Quasi _does_ want to hurt Frollo. _He always has._
My old highschool just got done with hunchback and I was in the choir as an alum, and EVERY NIGHT when the cast whispered "Yes you do", The audience would giggle as if it were supposed to be a funny bit and it pissed us all off so much!
Matthew Matousek i have finally felt the shivers everyone was feeling everytime that line comes in. I guess even the kindest of hearts also have the darkest side when they snap.
I much prefer the riddle "what makes a monster and what makes a man" to the original "who is the monster and who is the man" because the original one is too black and white imo. In the musical, they humanize Frollo and make Quasimodo basically murder Frollo. With Frollo, now it's a lot clearer why he does what he does, he was hurt and simply did what he thought was right and just. I'm not saying it's not cruel or wicked but it's still actions that are of a human, so could we truly call him a monster? Now with Quasimodo, I've seen someone saying that they prefer a version of this production where Quasimodo hesitated in killing Frollo and his death was ultimately an accidental fall. Personally the ending where Quasimodo is the one doing the act of killing is a lot more interesting imo. Quasimodo straight up just murders Frollo, and yet we don't feel as if it was a monstrous act. It felt like Frollo just got what he deserves for his cruel and wicked doings. It was an act that of a monster (murder) and yet it was still understandably human. So the riddle "what makes a monster and what makes a man" is a riddle that doesn't have a black and white answer, rather a gray one. More touching on the psychology and morality that is the meaning of being human. Whereas the original "who is the monster and who is the man" teaches to look at someone beyond their physical appearances and social statuses, where it's pretty black and white on the evil vs good nature of Frollo and Quasimodo.
The original film did this riddle too, at the end. At the start of the film, Clopin tells the "who's is the monster" riddle to the children to see if one can guess a simple answer(be it, VERY simple by the movie's characterizations). Then at the end, when Quasi is accepted by the townsfolk, Clopin reprises Bells of Notre Dame with one of the children(the same girl who hugged Quasimodo a few seconds before), and tells her the "what makes a monster" riddle with the Frollo puppet. The original film always did this, and I for one wish that remain in tact for this show, rather than have the "what makes a monster riddle" repeated twice. The way I see it, and how it was done for the 1999 Berlin Production of this show(Known by it's german title, Der Glockner Von Notre Dame), It be best that they have the "who's" riddle sung first, so as to fool the audience into guessing a simple answer, like you said with looking past one's appearance and social status. Then, when Frollo becomes a monster through his actions, and then Quasimodo kills Frollo, have the "what" riddle be sung, so as to display how open one should be to answer such a question, even accepting the answer to be pretty much anything life hurls at you. Frollo wasn't a bad person at heart, but his experience with having to reason why his only family was stripped away from him, regardless of how morally above he might be, and to place himself in a position that would force him to remain celibate, would slowly eat at his mind overtime and corrupt his conscious till all that there is left is his insistence that he is "purer than the common, vulgar, weak, licentious crowd" he felt he needed to deem his brother as, so when he saw Esmeralda, all of the natural sexual urges of human nature start to take hold and drive him insane. He became a monster throughout the whole story, becoming more wicked and weak than he deemed his brother to be. Quasimodo is also a good person at heart, trying to wrestle with how much the world would otherwise demonize him as, for his appearance no less, as well as his loyalty to whoever would truly love him. His experiences with his master taught him to hide away, no matter how curious he may be, and trust only in Frollo as the one best thing he'll ever have. Despite this, though, he's still willing to at least try to think of nice people, be imaginary voices in his head. When he meets Esmeralda, and discovers in her someone who might provide something for him like his master, maybe better even, he's willing to help her however he can, provided that he can stay with her. His heartbreak from realizing otherwise did eat at him, and he ends up rejecting the voices he created, realizing that he should've been stronger than this, despite how human it is for him to be hurt. So much so, that it leads him to get rid of the one person he ever loved, when that person killed the other person he might've loved even more. The two riddles have real introspective ways of looking at things, and I feel they should both be applied in the same order as the film to get to the moral crux that a story like this can be taught with.
@@michaelwilliamybarra2409 There's also another meaning in that Frollo made Quasimodo see himself as a monster through his upbringing, and he also made Esmerelda into a monster in the eyes of Paris by constantly defaming her.
I just analyzed Frollo for a psychological paper, and to be honest, this is the entire content in itself. Hearing the final song makes me so emotional.
What they did to achieve that was to go back to the source material. Hugo's novel is much messier than the Disney film. Frollo and Quasi in this musical are much more complex and, thus much more interesting and compelling. That said, Disney emphasized "outsidership," which is a carryover from the earlier film adaptations, especially the 1939 Charles Laughton film. This musical is the best adaptation so far, imo. It takes everything that's ever worked in any adaptation and puts it together. The music. The characterization. The themes. All together in one beautiful piece of art.
Such a beautiful song; and I love the phrase that they altered from the movie's "WHO is the monster and who is the man" as opposed to "what makes a monster". Both are so powerful
IIRC, the movie did that too. In the first "Bells of Notre Dame" at the beginning the line is "who is the monster and who is the man?" but when Clopin comes back to reprise it at the very end of the movie he changes it to "what makes a monster and what makes a man?"
@@julieshez398 "after she accepts Christ in her life"? She was a KIND AND WORTHY woman, and that's why she goes to Heaven. She has her own religion, she's not an christian, she is kind and wonderful.
@@julieshez398 Wait what?😂 Esmeralda (like myself) have our own religion. I'm a multi generational witch and I'll be dammed if I'll worship any God that would send any innocent, kind, and beautiful soul to hell. Esmeralda walked into heaven because she EARNED it!!! She is a beacon of hope for so many, even though she is a fictional character.
10:34 I began bawling when the woman steps forward, paints deformities on her face, and twists her body to show Quasimodo that she is like him, and the rest of the crowd follows suit, finally accepting him.
in my eyes its not that they are accepting its more like (especially in this case because they are supposed too be the saints at this part) they are showing that they are quasimodo, or in other words figments of his imagination cause, well they are and at that moment quasi realizes it
I always thought that it was like, they are turning into "monsters" while quasimodo stands up straight to "become" the man we knew he was all along- like in the line "what makes a monster and what makes a man"
Best summed up by the following: "You don't want to hurt me!" _"Yes you do..."_ I've said it before and I'll say it again: That exchange alone really shows how years of mistreatment can break even the kindest people. You can tell from it that Quasi has indeed wanted to hurt Frollo for a LONG time...
And the *chilling* transition from his reagular voice into the deeper, powerful voice we hear him sing in, when he says: "...I am very... *strong."* It makes me shudder!!
@@JerkyPuckThats because the key is lower. If it was sung as a D, while the song is in C, it would sound dissonant and icky, so it was changed to a C instead!
I know that the “yes you do” part is supposed to be serious, but I’m gonna play devil’s advocate and say that a huge reason that audiences end up laughing is the fact that there’s this sliver of humor in the beat of silence where you can practically hear Quasimodo thinking “bet” moments before killing him. Because as the audience, we know he’s going to give Frollo a piece of the hell he’s been giving Esmeralda + the Romani people, Quasimodo, and Phoebus (and, partly the audience, since we’re along for the ride with them), so there’s a feeling of just desserts and glee in him saying that while we all see him as a man deserving such a death. A lot of laughter in things like that is the sheer catharsis of seeing the antagonist’s own cruelty be turned on them.
Also, bc I don’t know how to edit comments, I wanna add that this entire finale is a hell of a lot to take in. As an audience, it’s common for things that shouldn’t be funny in the context become funny because you’re so overwhelmed with everything that your mind starts searching for relief. Case in point, Letter From the Refuge from Newsies having a few lines where people laugh despite the fact that it’s the darkest song in the show, if not darkest scene (Since it includes guards basically telling a kid to kill himself bc he won’t survive as a disabled teenager in the corrupt prison). The brain doesn’t like processing that much darkness and pain at once, so the slightest thing becomes funny in an attempt to release stress.
@@Diamondxjester yes!! I've been guilty many times for laughing at inappropriate moments for this very reason. Kiss of the spider woman was also a great example of this type of "humour".
"The world is cruel, the world is ugly- but there are times and there are people when the world is not; and at its cruelest, it's still the only world we've got..." that makes my heart ache to hear because it's so true. Since the beginning of time, the world was both cruel but also wonderful, both painful but also forgiving.
Goosebumps moments (for me anyway) 2:31 - SANCTUS! SANCUTUARY! 9:04 - DAMNATION! I don't even know why, the chord must've been placed at a very appropriate time or something 11:00 - That phrase is just so pure! 11:18 - KEY CHANGE + CHOIR ENTRANCE = JOYFUL TEARS 13:05 - I obviously like the final few bars, but it is the lead in to that I really start to get excited
"Sanctuary!" "Sanctus!" Sanctuary!" "Sanctus! In excelsis!" In English, the choir's part reads "Holy, holy, in the highest!" Note that Quasimodo and Esmerelda are in the heights of the cathedral at this moment. Just one example of the amazing use of Latin texts in this masterpiece.
OMGGG I LOVE THAT PART!!! It literally translates to “Holy Sanctuary!” “Holy Sanctuary!” “Holy in the highest!” Idk, I just LOVE how it it refers to the sanctuary as holy, it gives me goosebumps 😭😭
My old highschool just got done with hunchback and I was in the choir as an alum, and EVERY NIGHT when the cast whispered "Yes you do", The audience would giggle as if it were supposed to be a funny bit and it pissed us all off so much!
In high school, it's tough to do a production where you're taken seriously, but even in college productions audiences respond terribly. I don't even remember the name of the damn thing (whoever the director was didn't understand how blindness worked and how it pertained to the script--I don't even want to get into it), but long story short: pissed off con man trying to murder a blind woman in a dark apartment. You know he's capable of murder and you're PRAYING he doesn't find light. He does find light--cleverly opening the fridge--and is CRAWLING ACROSS THE ROOM COVERED IN BLOOD going towards her; it was genuinely terrifying to be inside the theater. It was also really uncomfortable to watch. People LAUGHED. I would hate to be the con man COVERED in fake blood going all out for his friends and family and general strangers just to be laughed at! I kept my mouth shut and enjoyed the scene in terror. I just wish people would learn to handle their discomfort. But maybe actors don't care as much as I think they do. *shrug*
@homeinwonderland our director talked to us about this: apparently audiences laugh at these kinds of scenes as an "uncomfortable" laugh, or as a way to release tension if the production/scene itself is intense. i kind of get it, but it's still very confusing. take my scenario when VYT did it: esmeralda has just died, all the gargoyles are on the bridge with their heads down(it's what they do when someone dies, our director says). the music is building up with haunting latin as quasimodo's pushing frollo up the staircase onto the bridge. frollo says, "you don't want to hurt me." the gargoyles' heads slowly tilt up, look to frollo, and whisper "yes you *do*" in a way that still makes me shiver, with a look of terror on frollo's face. then the audience just completely bursts into laughter. it happened every single show.
@@wandanemer2630 Yep, in this version and the original book, Frollo _is_ the Archdeacon. In the Disney version they were split and made into two separate characters, because back in the 90s if there was one thing you couldn't get away with it was being seen to throw shade at the Catholic Church. So they made Frollo a secular, but extremely "pious", Judge, and had the Archdeacon a separate character who acted as Frollo's moral compass in sparing Quasimodo as a baby.
@@rollingthunder1043 I know right? But even still... Frollo's character in the movie kind of *did* manage to throw a lot of shade at the Catholic church. Even if he did as methaphor. But got away with it because he "wasn't the archdeacon" there. Funny, because most people still remember him as being a sort of corrupted religious figure rather than literally "Judge" Claude Frollo. And I think that's hillarious.
This song is my favourite use of motifs in any musical. Phoebus singing Esmeraldas "Someday" to rally the people under her message, and the townsfolk later repeating it again to mourn her death. Quasimodo turning "Made of Stone", the song of his despair and lowest point, into his battlecry. The gargoyles turning Frollos "Sanctuary" into a message of hope, transitioning into Quasi finally getting to be "Out there". And finally Clopin repeating his riddle from the beginning, now that we (and Quasimodo) have learned the answer. My god, I didn't even know that I had that many different emotions.
(Phoebus’s part) [PHOEBUS] Hear me, people of Paris How much oppression will you allow [CHOIR] Olim deus accelere Hoc saeculum splendidum [PHOEBUS] Someday your patience will finally break Why not make someday come right now
Man, I wish the movie had gone with an ending like this instead of the "happily ever after one"! I mean, I love a cute ending as much as the next person, but the musical is way more powerful and gets the message across better (also one of my favorite finales ever!!)
While I definitely like a tragic ending like the book's, I thought the animated adaptation still had enough darkness and maturity to earn its happy ending. One example being how Frollo was made purely evil and already succeeded in both killing many Gypsies and emotionally abusing Quasimodo, which made the characters' journey to overcome him a very dark struggle against some of the worst of humanity. Quasimodo still had to deal with a similar kind of unrequited romantic attraction, which was pretty ballsy for Disney. So it still gave enough of a window into Victor Hugo's story and themes for kids to witness and learn from, while still being happy, in my opinion. However, if Disney were to somehow get the guts to do a live-action remake that tries to combine the best from the novel, animated musical, and Disney stage play versions, how would you like to see that have a tragic ending? I personally would love it, since it would be easier to hear a live-action movie towards an older audience that might prefer a darker ending.
The thing is that Disney never would have never been able to get way with an ending this dark, considering how dark the rest of the film was leading up to it, especially since it was animated. However, if they do decide to remake this in live-action I feel that it would be the right thing to do. A more mature story needs a more mature ending. Maybe don't kill off everyone like in the book, but at least kill off Esmerelda and have her be more of a martyr figure that like how she was in the musical.
Lauren Rose Goodman I disagree I actually think the Disney film is more emotional and powerful, as opposed to everyone just dying. Just because it was in the original doesn't necessarily make it better.
Lauren Rose Goodman Esmeralda is my favorite character and, though I agree with you, I'd like to point something out. The movie is meant for younger children, and it was already pushing it on the fear/sad scale. The musical is based more on the book, and thus is more dark. Esmeralda is much like best friend, and her death in the musical reminds me how much I value her. The ending of the musical and the Disney movie both satisfy me for different reasons, so I enjoy both. I think the movie has the right balance of happy and sad to make it as good as it is.
I doubt Disney will take it their, unfortunately the Animated movie while brilliant didn't make what they thought due to it not being child friendly, doubt Disney will ever go this dark again, especially since this musical is ever darker than the Animated Movie.
3:15 God, chills everywhere. The fact that Phoebus was coming to Paris to chill from being in the vanguard of the war and he still got involved with the outcast when he could turn away and do nothing, that's what a hero is all about
starilie it’s the ghost of Florika singing that part (Quasimodo’s mother) I’m playing her in my local community theater production and I’m barely holding it together when I sing this part.
hopegirl518 Ashlynn I was in this show last year, and Florika is singing in Latin. “Olim Deus accelere, hoc saeculum splendidum.” I don’t remember the exact, literal translation, but it’s essentially the lyrics of the song “Someday” in Latin, as in “Someday, Godspeed this bright millennium, Let it come someday.” Hope that helped! 😊
At 6:14 we all as a cast and choir had to give just a quiet sigh just loud enough for the audience to hear to signify Esmeralda’s last breath. That alone was enough to make me teary eyed, but that last “Out There” made me go to pieces.
Well, all except Phoebus. IIRC, we don't actually hear what happens to him in this production, it just sort of "ends" right after Esmeralda's death/ascension to Heaven. In the original novel, Esmeralda dies, then Quasimodo takes her down into the cathedral's crypts and stays with her until he, too, dies of starvation and thirst. Their bones are found together years later during a renovation. Phoebus survives the story, but goes on to marry his cousin. Who I gather isn't particularly pleasant.
12:39-13:42 Loved that they concluded with the same riddle, because it brings up all the esence of the story and feels like a new day might actually come and be better.
a little guide to the sections of the song with timestamps :) (and a little 💟 to symbolize some crowd favorites! ) 0:00 finale intro 0:28 the sentencing / execution 1:30 quasimodo’s stand 2:31 sanctus / sanctuary 💟 2:43 laws of sanctuary / quasimodo throws stones 3:14 somewhere (phoebus verse) 💟 3:40 doors down, molten lead 4:00 made of stone (reprise) 💟 4:49 top of the world (reprise) / esmeralda’s death 6:31 our sanctuary (reprise) 8:00 the argument / wicked shall not go unpunished 8:30 frollo’s death 💟 9:14 out there (reprise) 10:30 olim (reprise) 💟 11:00 someday (reprise) 12:19 the bells of notre dame (reprise)
In the production I saw of this Quadimodo didn't kill Frolo; so, listening to this the first time I was surprised. After they whispered 'yes you do' Quadimodo let go of Frolo, and went over to look over the city. Frolo grabbed a knife, and tried to kill Quadimodo, but he jumped out of the way and his momentum propelled Frolo over the edge. I liked this better, because it is where I got a lot of My answer to the riddle of the bells, which we much all decide for ourselves. Frolo was a monster because he always acted on his sinful and selfish urges. He had no love or self control. Quadimodo, however, only acted out of love and had the self control to realise he did want to hurt Frolo, but he didn't. He had the self restraint to be better than Frolo. Clearly, even with Quadimodo killing Frolo, Frolo is still an overall evil person and Quadimodo is genuinely good person, in general, but I liked the ending the production I saw had. It meant a lot to me.
Savanna Henderson i like this version better because I feel that if Quasimodo hadn't killed Frollo, he would be just a sweet Disney character. In truth, nobody is perfect. Not even Quasimodo.
Evilkat23 It's a perfect pause, indeed because of the true reason he took Quasimodo in. He did so because he (Quasimodo) was Jahan's only son. Practically the only evidence of Jahan's existence and Frollo couldn't bare the thought of any part of his brother fading into nothing but memory. Frollo only cared for Quasimodo through the memory of his brother and no other.
just markers for myself; 3:15 here me, people of Paris~ 5:24 here again at the top of the world~ (Esmeralda) 6:31 Esmeralda died 9:19 the world is cruel... 10:34 someday theme (chorus) 11:19 someday life will be kinder... 12:13 the bells of notre dame waltz
NO way, my high school is also doing this, I’m apart of the Pit Orchestra. We’re holding our 3 shows tomorrow Friday and Saturday. I’m so excited because everyone sounds so good cast and pit.
If I ever get to do this show and sing the very end in the middle of the choir, I'll probably end up having tears running down my face just in rehearsal.
The staggered lines of the choir for "the wicked shall not go unpunished", escalating through the transition into Latin, one of my favorite little additions for the show.
Honestly Phoebus’ call to the people of Paris just hits different for me. It just riles me up and fills me with so much emotion. When that part plays I just lose my breath
(Frollo wakes up on the cold hard ground outside Notre Dame after Quasimodo threw him off the roof. he finds his archdeacon robes gone and he is back in his orphan clothing. he walks Into Notre Dame to find his brother Jehan looking at him in Disappointment) Claude: Brother? Jehan: Did you do it? Claude: Yes Jehan: What did it cost. Claude: Everything. I just had to do it.
@@schanez2000 i liked this comment a year ago not understanding it. Now that I'm in the avengers fandom I understand now and this is hilarious Edit: oops i @ed the wrong person
The original book was just okay, but it does contain an amazing epilogue for the story ~~ Spoilers ~~ We have just said that Quasimodo disappeared from Notre- Dame on the day of the gypsy's and of the archdeacon's death. He was not seen again, in fact; no one knew what had become of him. During the night which followed the execution of la Esmeralda, the night men had detached her body from the gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the cellar of Montfau on. Montfau on was, as Sauval says, "the most ancient and the most superb gibbet in the kingdom." Between the faubourgs of the Temple and Saint Martin, about a hundred and sixty toises from the walls of Paris, a few bow shots from La Courtille, there was to be seen on the crest of a gentle, almost imperceptible eminence, but sufficiently elevated to be seen for several leagues round about, an edifice of strange form, bearing considerable resemblance to a Celtic cromlech, and where also human sacrifices were offered. Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone, thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals; on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain, a stone cross and two gibbets of secondary importance, which seemed to have sprung up as shoots around the central gallows; above all this, in the sky, a perpetual flock of crows; that was Montfau on. At the end of the fifteenth century, the formidable gibbet which dated from 1328, was already very much dilapidated; the beams were wormeaten, the chains rusted, the pillars green with mould; the layers of hewn stone were all cracked at their joints, and grass was growing on that platform which no feet touched. The monument made a horrible profile against the sky; especially at night when there was a little moonlight on those white skulls, or when the breeze of evening brushed the chains and the skeletons, and swayed all these in the darkness. The presence of this gibbet sufficed to render gloomy all the surrounding places. The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the odious edifice was hollow. A huge cellar had been constructed there, closed by an old iron grating, which was out of order, into which were cast not only the human remains, which were taken from the chains of Montfau on, but also the bodies of all the unfortunates executed on the other permanent gibbets of Paris. To that deep charnel-house, where so many human remains and so many crimes have rotted in company, many great ones of this world, many innocent people, have contributed their bones, from Enguerrand de Marigni, the first victim, and a just man, to Admiral de Coligni, who was its last, and who was also a just man. As for the mysterious disappearance of Quasimodo, this is all that we have been able to discover. About eighteen months or two years after the events which terminate this story, when search was made in that cavern for the body of Olivier le Daim, who had been hanged two days previously, and to whom Charles VIII. had granted the favor of being buried in Saint Laurent, in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these skeletons, which was that of a woman, still had a few strips of a garment which had once been white, and around her neck was to be seen a string of adrézarach beads with a little silk bag ornamented with green glass, which was open and empty. These objects were of so little value that the executioner had probably not cared for them. The other, which held this one in a close embrace, was the skeleton of a man. It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades, and that one leg was shorter than the other. Moreover, there was no fracture of the vertebrae at the nape of the neck, and it was evident that he had not been hanged. Hence, the man to whom it had belonged had come thither and had died there. When they tried to detach the skeleton which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.
The act that this never made it to broadway but the fucking frozen and spongebob musicals did makes me weep for humanity jfc. Not saying that either show will or does suck but for fucks sake this show is a masterpiece on a level those two can only dream of. It’s truly unfair and just speaks to the importance and influence of money over art.
The reason this didn't make it to Broadway is because of the cost of paying each individual choir member as well as the set itself. It is so depressing that it won't be om Broadway. Hopefully SOMEDAY we'll be able to see it on Broadway!
Be happy instead of other musicals throwing their best aspect to please broadway(Nick Jonas les misarables Jeckyll and Hyde David hasslehoff) They didn't risk giving a Inferior version with no choir and the set making it bad like how the movie went with soccer mom's asking for frollo not to be priest and how it was made kiddy in that aspect this was way better
Like Disney had a heart to not to make a bad musical that generates money instead a good musical with a heart big bucks doesn't mean always a good piece of work
The world is cruel, the world is ugly. But there are times and there are people when the world is not. And at its cruelest it’s still the only world we got. Light and dark, foul and fair... out there
This musical and in particular this fragment of the musical is the greatest achievement in music I have ever heard mankind conceive. It is so encapsulating, grandiose and ceaselessly powerful that you have to sit back and let wherever your mind was disappear until this music paints its canvas. It is extraordinary. An example of the potential of our species and the very pinnacle of talent, creativity, emotion and ensemble.
My personal highlight was all the reprises done in this final act,The World is Cruel, Out There, Top of the World, Esmeralda, Someday & Made of Stone & Last but not Least, Bells Of Notre Dame, making this finale so much more powerful as a culmination of everything. Bless this work of art, no This Masterpiece
Li Says Hello The part I always had to struggle to hold back tears in the production I was in was when Quasimodo cries and says, “All I ever loved....”
9:15 is when my favorite part begins. "The world is cruel, the world is ugly, but there are times and there are people when the world is not... and at its cruelest, it's still the only world we've got."
It's sad when Quasimodo asks Frollo if he has ever loved anyone Frollo had a chance to say that he loves Quasimodo but he doesn't. Frollo has probably already known deep down that he never actually loved him. He certainly cared for the boy, wished him good, raised him the way he thought was right for this creature and maybe sometimes tried his best to love him but he just couldn't bring himself to do it, no matter how hard he tried. And Quasimodo just had that shown to him when Frollo had to stop himself before mentioning his brother.
If only there was a way to listen to this track without the acting and narrating, but instead leave the music and choir, man I would LOVE to hear that for this track.
my favorite parts in this song is when phoebus inspires the people to rebel with the choir singing latin as an echo and florika’s solo with the ensemble & choir singing
hopegirl518 Ashlynn I remember watching a video of the Papermill version of the musical and when Esmeralda started walking to heaven i thought it was her beginning to sing in Latin. Until someone corrected me it was Florika, according to the script😊.
@@glecyrances1874 Yeah, it's Samantha Massel, the actress who plays Florika, who sings this part. But to be fair, she also did understudy for Ciara Renee(who played Esmeralda officially, and in this recording) as Esmeralda too!
@@wandanemer2630 and in the book, Quasi kills Jehan when Jehan and the rest of the gypsies tried to storm Notre Dame, he did it by bashing him against the wall, and Jehan died with brains coming out of his skull
Today I heard the soundtrack of this wonderful story again & thought about coming back to Notre Dame someday. & later I hear that it burns down. It's just a tragedy.
Imagine it was Enjolras singing when Phoebus started singing at 3:15. Also i always smile everytime people talk about how they get Les Mis vibes from Phoebus. He's clearly the Enjolras character in this one😊 (though i'm pretty sure he's got a way different personality in the book).
JUDEX CREDERIS ESSE VENTURUS IN TE DOMINE SPERAVI NON CONFUNDAR IN AETERNUM SALVUM FAC POPULUM TUUM JUDEX CREDERIS FROLLO: The prisoner has been found guilty of entering the city of Paris illegally, guilty of stabbing a soldier in the church, and guilty of the crime of witchcraft. The sentence is death! I will give you this opportunity to recant and save yourself. (Whispers to Esmeralda) Think of what I've offered. What is your answer? ESMERALDA: (Spits in Frollo's face) LIBERA ME DOMINE FROLLO: For the justice of the realm and for the salvation of Paris, it is my sacred duty to send this unholy demon back to hell! QUASIMODO: Esmeralda! LIBERA ME DOMINE DE MORTE AETERNA CONGREGATION: And at that moment, Quasimodo decided… IN DIE ILLA TREMENDA QUANDO CAELI MOVENDI SUNT CONGREGATION: He could remain still no longer… CAELI ET TERRA CONGREGATION: He broke free of the ropes… DUM VENERE JUDICARE CONGREGATION: That were tied to the pillars… SAECULUM PER IGNEM CONGREGATION: He slid down the facade like a drop of rain and climbed to the balustrade. SALUTARIS SALUTARIS HOSTIA QUAE CAELI PANDIS OSTIUM BELLA PREMUNT HOSTILIA DA ROBUR FER AUXILIUM SIT SEMPITERNA GLORIA SIT SEMPITERNA GLORIA SIT SEMPITERNA GLORIA GLORIA GLORIA SEMPER SANCTUS QUASIMODO: Sanctuary! SANCTUS QUASIMODO: Sanctuary! IN EXCELSIS CONGREGATION: Quasimodo set the girl down in the the belltower and went to bar the great doors of Notre Dame cathedral so that no one could get in. FROLLO: Captain, seize the cathedral! FREDERICK: But sir, the laws of sanctuary! FROLLO: I am the archdeacon of this cathedral, I negate the laws of sanctuary! Open those doors! FREDERICK: Open those doors! Throw them down if you must! CONGREGATION: As the soldiers attempted to throw open the church doors, they suddenly saw Quasimodo hurl giant stones and wooden beams. DIES IRAE DIES ILLA DIES IRAE DIES ILLA FROLLO: Fools! Break down the doors! CONGREGATION: Captain Phoebus, freed from his bars and the heroic Clopin rallied the people of Paris to fight the soldiers. PHOEBUS: They must not be allowed to enter! HERE ME PEOPLE OF PARIS OLIM DEUS ACCELERE SOMEDAY YOUR PATIENCE WILL FINALLY PAY HOC SAECULUM SPLENDIDUM ACCELERE FIAT VENIRE OLIM WHY NOT MAKE SOMEDAY COME RIGHT NOW? CONGREGATION: The people fought the soldiers but could not hold them back. The soldiers heaved and hurled, until at last, with one final blow, they knocked down the doors. And Quasimodo, seeing their invasion, ran back and forth trying to find a way to stop them. Until, he came across the great vat of molten lead sitting up on the roof. MORS STUPEBIT ET NATURA CUM RESURGET CREATURA JUDICANTI RESPONSURA SOLDIER: My god, look up there! He's way up there! COME ALL YOU SAINTS OF STONE ALL YOU GUARDIANS AND GARGOYLES HURL DOWN STONES INTO THE NIGHT THROW THE LADDERS DOWN AND LIGHT THESE VATS OF LEAD STEAMING, BOILING STREAMS OF LEAD BURNING LEAD AND LET THE FLAMES GROW HIGHER OH, SAINTS AND MONSTERS SHOW YOUR POWER HELP ME TO SEND THIS RAGING SHOWER RAINING FIRE ON THE STONE BELOW…! QUASIMODO: We've done it, Esmeralda! Beaten them back! Esmeralda? You are home. ESMERALDA: Home? HERE AGAIN AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD TWO FRIENDS ENJOYING THIS BEAUTIFUL MORNING IN MY EYES YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, TOO SHARING THE TOP OF THE WORLD QUASIMODO: Stay inside here forever. ESMERALDA: I don't think…forever. You are such a good friend, Quasimodo. QUASIMODO: Yes, your friend. Esmeralda? Esmeralda, wake up! FROLLO: Is she dead? QUASIMODO: Because of you! FROLLO: It was my duty. QUASIMODO: Duty? FROLLO: Now we can finally go back to the way things were. QUASIMODO: No! FROLLO: We will. You'll see… AT LAST WE'RE FREE OF ESMERALDA NOW THAT SHE'S GONE HER POISON DIES WITH HER NOW THAT WE'RE FREE OF ESMERALDA WE CAN GO ON AS CLOSE AS ONCE WE WERE HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY SANCTUARY… QUASIMODO: Sanctuary? No sanctuary wihout her! FROLLO: It was her choice, Quasimodo. I could have helped her. Even loved her. QUASIMODO: Love? What do you know of love? Who have you ever loved? FROLLO: I-I loved my brother. I tried to teach him. QUASIMODO: You? Teach him? FROLLO: Yes, as I tried to teach you! But he was wicked and weak! QUASIMODO: He? You are the weak one. You're the wicked one! And the wicked shall not go unpunished! THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED THE HEART OF THE WICKED IS OFF LITTLE WORTH THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED SOLVET SAECULUM IN FAVILLA TESTE DAVID CUM SYBILLA QUANTUS TREMOR EST FUTURUS QUANDO JUDEX EST VENTURUS FROLLO: Let go of me! Quasimodo, no, don't! QUASIMODO: I told you, master. I am very strong! FROLLO: You don't want to hurt me! CONGREGATION: Yes, you do. Quasimodo raised his two huge hands and, with a great bellow, threw his master over the edge of the roof into the abyss below. FROLLO: Damnation…! QUASIMODO: There lies all that I have ever loved. PHOEBUS: Esmeralda? QUASIMODO: Gone…gone… PHOEBUS: No… THE WORLD IS CRUEL THE WORLD IS UGLY BUT THERE ARE TIMES AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHEN THE WORLD IS NOT AND AT ITS CRUELEST IT'S STILL THE ONLY WORLD WE'VE GOT LIGHT AND DARK FOUL AND FAIR OUT THERE… OLIM DEUS ACCELERE HOC SAECULUM SPLENDIDUM CONGREGATION AND SOMEDAY LIFE WILL BE KINDER LOVE WILL BE BLINDER SOME NEW AFTERNOON GODSPEED THIS BRIGHT MILLENNIUM HOPE LIVES ON WISH UPON THE MOON LET IT COME ONE DAY… SOMEDAY… CONGREGATION AND SOON… MORNING IN PARIS A NEW DAY APPEARS SING THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME ENDING THE TALE OF YOUR POOR BALLADEERS SING THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME AND I WISH I COULD LEAVE YOU A MORAL LIKE A TRINKET YOU HOLD IN YOUR PALM BUT HERE IS A RIDDLE TO GUESS IF YOU CAN SING THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME WHAT MAKES A MONSTER AND WHAT MAKES A MAN? SING THE BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS… WHATEVER THEIR PITCH YOU CAN FEEL THEM BEWITCH YOU THE RICH AND THE RITUAL KNELLS OF THE… ALL: BELLS OF NOTRE DAME!
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"Years later, in the crypts below Notre Dame, there were discovered two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of them was a woman with a woven band around her neck. The second was that of a man, whose spinal column was crooked. When they tried to detach the skeleton he held in his arms, he crumbled to dust."
Banana Boat Charlie 😭😭😭😭This part I could never ever forget after the first time I read the book.
Kristinne Perpuse I was ten when I read the book the first time. That ending fucked me up for days afterward.
that was deep
What's even creepier about this is that the human body decays faster than it takes to die of thirst. So he must have sat down there for days, and Esmeralda would already be rotting after just one day. He sat down there holding a rotting corpse for days before dying himself.
wtfduud That thought has crossed my mind more times than I care to admit.
"The world is cruel, the world is ugly, but there are times and there are people when the world is not and at its cruelest, its still the only world we've got" So powerful.
Natalie Brown yeah its a painful reminder that some people in this world are just truly evil but it also reassures us that there is good people too
Natalie Brown someday life will be kinder, love will be blinder some new afternoon. Godspeed this bright millennium. Hope lives on. Wish upon the moon. Let it come, one day. Someday soon
cbolanz1
Olim deus accelere
Hoc saeculum splendidum
Accelere fiat venire
Olim....
Natalie Brown I find that line very comforting.
"Ernest Hemmingway wrote once: The World is a beautiful place, and is worth fighting for. I agree with the second part."
something I never see commented is when Frollo starts to burn Esmerelda, in a lot of the productions, it has her screaming- horrified that she's about to die a horrific death. It sends shivers down your spine, its absolutely gut-wrenching. I think the reason being is because she's portrayed as so, so brave throughout the play. She's given the chance to save herself, and chooses TWICE to rather die than become Frollo's wife. But it doesn't absolve her of fear, especially fear of death.
Its why I love the fact the musical points out that despite what anyone beliefs (in the musical's canon) her spirit goes to heaven at the end, proving she was a good and worthy person regardless of her beliefs, and ending her suffering. Goddamn this musical is so tragic and beautiful and sad T_T
In 2 of the 4 productions I’ve seen she was stoic and quiet. I thought it was awkward when she screamed.
When we did it last year. Our Esmeralda screamed a truly blood curdling scream, you could feel it down your spine. But being part of the architecture during that part you could only watch in horror until you could move. Lol
Frollo's wife? You mean Frollo's bed slave.
It wasnt really his "wife". More like his slave. Her had an intense sexual attraction which he justified with love but it most certainly was not. However, in my production of this, Esmeralda screamed a lot in that scene and the sexual assault scene. It was very...raw
@@katalyst9653 so true ;/
I also screamed when Frollo tried to r4pe Esmeralda, that scene was so... ugh🤢... and there are people who shipp Esme and him. Yeah... unfortunately.
For anyone who doesn’t know, at 8:22 that’s the ghosts of Jehan (Frollo’s brother and Quisimodo’s father) and Florika (Quasimodo’s mother) singing “the wicked shall not go unpunished / the heart of the wicked is of little worth” while Quasimodo is about to kill Frollo. The one time Quasi and his parents are seen “together”. Also at 11:00 is also Florika singing
I didn't know that. Now I'm crying more than before.
Oooh I’m Florika in my college’s production, and I when I was listening to that part (11:00) just now I was really hoping it was mine (we don’t have scripts yet cause the cast list just came out tonight), but now I’m super excited!!!
Clare Gundersen, Thanks!
Anna Rose i thought it was Esmeralda singing at 11:00
@@glecyrances1874 It's Florika in the script, Esmeralda is dead by this point. (I mean so is Florika but like her and Jehan are there symbolically)
Timestamps for anyone who wants to skip around!:
0:00 - Judex Crederis _(Judge of Faith)_
0:28 - The Sentencing of Esmeralda (Kyrie Eleison)
1:30 - Libera Me Domine _(Deliver me Lord)_ / Stone No Longer
2:31 - Sanctuary!
2:54 - Ramming the Doors / Dies Irae _(Day of Wrath)_
3:13 - Someday (Phoebus' Reprise)
3:39 - "With one final blow..." / Vats of Molten Lead
4:00 - Made of Stone (Reprise)
4:46 - Top of the World (Reprise)
6:31 - Frollo enters
7:01 - Esmeralda (Reprise) / Our Sanctuary
7:46 - The Argument
8:17 - The Wicked Shall Not Go Unpunished
8:43 - "Yes you _do..."_ / Frollo's Death
9:19 - Out There (Reprise)
10:34 - Florika Solo (Olim (Reprise))
11:18 - Someday (Reprise)
12:13 - The Bells of Notre Dame (Reprise)
"You can stay inside here, forever!"
"...I don't think... _forever..._ you're such a good friend, Quasimodo..."
OW MY HEART.
CJCroen1393 its an emotional moment between two friends. The only place they both felt welcomed.
“Yes. Your friend. Esmeralda? Esmeralda wake up!”
Friendzoned to death smh
You don't want to hurt me!
_Y E S Y O U D O_
chills...every time...
It really shows how years of abuse and mistreatment can break even the kindest people.
My school did this musical this year, but Quazi and the gargoyles said “Yes I do”... it gives even more chills
In the production I was just in (I was in the choir); the gargoyles were all played by children, which made their line "yes, you do", very chilling.
CJCroen1393 its so sad and so true, im so glad this is part of the musical as opposed to the movie. its just so powerful and meaningful, especially after being in the show, it changes everything.
@Hugh S whoa, children. I have goosebumps right now.
"You don't want to hurt me!"
_"Yes you do..."_
I can never get over the significance of that line...yes, Quasi _does_ want to hurt Frollo.
_He always has._
CJCroen1393 No. I don't think he always did. Esmeralda dying is what pushed him over the edge.
My old highschool just got done with hunchback and I was in the choir as an alum, and EVERY NIGHT when the cast whispered "Yes you do", The audience would giggle as if it were supposed to be a funny bit and it pissed us all off so much!
Matthew Matousek i have finally felt the shivers everyone was feeling everytime that line comes in. I guess even the kindest of hearts also have the darkest side when they snap.
PancadaPls they did that in my production to, we felt the same. I hated that they laughed because of the meaning of it
Michelle Chrien
Honestly, those types of people would laugh at anything, regardless of the context, blinded by immaturity.
"Esmeralda. You... are home."
"Home..."
I didn't cry, you cried.
Goddamn onions!!
Every damn night of the run, my dude
Shut up I'm not crying this is eye sweat
I have... (sniff) allergies...
I cried and listen Esmeralda and Quasimodo last words together
When Phoebus starts singing, I got those goosebumps that only happen when the whole choir starts singing in Les Mis: "Do you hear the people sing?"
Coda Singer man that is such a powerful moment in both. I will never stop having this reaction to both.
Coda Singer welp, they're both V.H. stories after all. They give you those strong and emotional feelings if ever one of the tracks came up.
Coda Singer maybe Phoebus' lines are something what Enjolras would say/sing.
Funnily enough, both novels share an author.
“What do you know of love? Who have you ever loved?”
“I love-“
_Frollo realizes telling Quasimodo he loves him would be a lie_
“I loved my brother!”
My take is that he in that moment of pause realizes that he had forgotten what it was like to love someone.
Calling Jehan wicked is what set Quasimodo over the edge
I much prefer the riddle "what makes a monster and what makes a man" to the original "who is the monster and who is the man" because the original one is too black and white imo.
In the musical, they humanize Frollo and make Quasimodo basically murder Frollo. With Frollo, now it's a lot clearer why he does what he does, he was hurt and simply did what he thought was right and just. I'm not saying it's not cruel or wicked but it's still actions that are of a human, so could we truly call him a monster?
Now with Quasimodo, I've seen someone saying that they prefer a version of this production where Quasimodo hesitated in killing Frollo and his death was ultimately an accidental fall. Personally the ending where Quasimodo is the one doing the act of killing is a lot more interesting imo. Quasimodo straight up just murders Frollo, and yet we don't feel as if it was a monstrous act. It felt like Frollo just got what he deserves for his cruel and wicked doings. It was an act that of a monster (murder) and yet it was still understandably human.
So the riddle "what makes a monster and what makes a man" is a riddle that doesn't have a black and white answer, rather a gray one. More touching on the psychology and morality that is the meaning of being human. Whereas the original "who is the monster and who is the man" teaches to look at someone beyond their physical appearances and social statuses, where it's pretty black and white on the evil vs good nature of Frollo and Quasimodo.
The original film did this riddle too, at the end. At the start of the film, Clopin tells the "who's is the monster" riddle to the children to see if one can guess a simple answer(be it, VERY simple by the movie's characterizations). Then at the end, when Quasi is accepted by the townsfolk, Clopin reprises Bells of Notre Dame with one of the children(the same girl who hugged Quasimodo a few seconds before), and tells her the "what makes a monster" riddle with the Frollo puppet. The original film always did this, and I for one wish that remain in tact for this show, rather than have the "what makes a monster riddle" repeated twice.
The way I see it, and how it was done for the 1999 Berlin Production of this show(Known by it's german title, Der Glockner Von Notre Dame), It be best that they have the "who's" riddle sung first, so as to fool the audience into guessing a simple answer, like you said with looking past one's appearance and social status. Then, when Frollo becomes a monster through his actions, and then Quasimodo kills Frollo, have the "what" riddle be sung, so as to display how open one should be to answer such a question, even accepting the answer to be pretty much anything life hurls at you.
Frollo wasn't a bad person at heart, but his experience with having to reason why his only family was stripped away from him, regardless of how morally above he might be, and to place himself in a position that would force him to remain celibate, would slowly eat at his mind overtime and corrupt his conscious till all that there is left is his insistence that he is "purer than the common, vulgar, weak, licentious crowd" he felt he needed to deem his brother as, so when he saw Esmeralda, all of the natural sexual urges of human nature start to take hold and drive him insane. He became a monster throughout the whole story, becoming more wicked and weak than he deemed his brother to be.
Quasimodo is also a good person at heart, trying to wrestle with how much the world would otherwise demonize him as, for his appearance no less, as well as his loyalty to whoever would truly love him. His experiences with his master taught him to hide away, no matter how curious he may be, and trust only in Frollo as the one best thing he'll ever have. Despite this, though, he's still willing to at least try to think of nice people, be imaginary voices in his head. When he meets Esmeralda, and discovers in her someone who might provide something for him like his master, maybe better even, he's willing to help her however he can, provided that he can stay with her. His heartbreak from realizing otherwise did eat at him, and he ends up rejecting the voices he created, realizing that he should've been stronger than this, despite how human it is for him to be hurt. So much so, that it leads him to get rid of the one person he ever loved, when that person killed the other person he might've loved even more.
The two riddles have real introspective ways of looking at things, and I feel they should both be applied in the same order as the film to get to the moral crux that a story like this can be taught with.
@@michaelwilliamybarra2409 There's also another meaning in that Frollo made Quasimodo see himself as a monster through his upbringing, and he also made Esmerelda into a monster in the eyes of Paris by constantly defaming her.
I believe the answer to the riddle lies in intentions. Quasimodo had good intentions. Frollo was manipulative and psychotic
I just analyzed Frollo for a psychological paper, and to be honest, this is the entire content in itself. Hearing the final song makes me so emotional.
What they did to achieve that was to go back to the source material. Hugo's novel is much messier than the Disney film. Frollo and Quasi in this musical are much more complex and, thus much more interesting and compelling. That said, Disney emphasized "outsidership," which is a carryover from the earlier film adaptations, especially the 1939 Charles Laughton film. This musical is the best adaptation so far, imo. It takes everything that's ever worked in any adaptation and puts it together. The music. The characterization. The themes. All together in one beautiful piece of art.
Such a beautiful song; and I love the phrase that they altered from the movie's "WHO is the monster and who is the man" as opposed to "what makes a monster". Both are so powerful
IIRC, the movie did that too. In the first "Bells of Notre Dame" at the beginning the line is "who is the monster and who is the man?" but when Clopin comes back to reprise it at the very end of the movie he changes it to "what makes a monster and what makes a man?"
That part when Esmeralda gets up and walks to heaven - it really got me.
You Nice
When Florika (Quasimodo’s mother) sings her solo to Quasimodo at 11:01... that part gets me.
I almost cried
Looks like good thing Esmeralda is finally at peace in Heaven with God after she accepts Christ in her life.
@@julieshez398 "after she accepts Christ in her life"?
She was a KIND AND WORTHY woman, and that's why she goes to Heaven. She has her own religion, she's not an christian, she is kind and wonderful.
@@julieshez398 Wait what?😂 Esmeralda (like myself) have our own religion. I'm a multi generational witch and I'll be dammed if I'll worship any God that would send any innocent, kind, and beautiful soul to hell. Esmeralda walked into heaven because she EARNED it!!! She is a beacon of hope for so many, even though she is a fictional character.
13:21-13:38 someone belted a C6. no break. No exaggerated vibrato. Mad respect
Esmerelda
10:34 I began bawling when the woman steps forward, paints deformities on her face, and twists her body to show Quasimodo that she is like him, and the rest of the crowd follows suit, finally accepting him.
in my eyes its not that they are accepting its more like (especially in this case because they are supposed too be the saints at this part) they are showing that they are quasimodo, or in other words figments of his imagination cause, well they are and at that moment quasi realizes it
I always thought that it was like, they are turning into "monsters" while quasimodo stands up straight to "become" the man we knew he was all along- like in the line "what makes a monster and what makes a man"
i guess the meaning of that scene is up to the interpreter
I’m in a production of HOND and there is 8 year old doing this part and it’s UNBELIEVABLY ADORABLE 😍
I absolutely love the build up to when Frollo gets thrown off the tower. You really feel every extent of Quasimodo's anger. It's so intense.
Best summed up by the following:
"You don't want to hurt me!"
_"Yes you do..."_
I've said it before and I'll say it again: That exchange alone really shows how years of mistreatment can break even the kindest people. You can tell from it that Quasi has indeed wanted to hurt Frollo for a LONG time...
And the *chilling* transition from his reagular voice into the deeper, powerful voice we hear him sing in, when he says: "...I am very... *strong."*
It makes me shudder!!
13:15
If you listen real close, you can hear Clopin's famous high note in the background being sung by a single guy.
I didn't... say what note it was. But on a second hearing, yes, I guess it is multiple guys.
Ah, I guess you're right. The build up sounded pretty familiar but I guess it's not.
The D is sung in the opening. Here its a C. Odd.
@@JerkyPuckThats because the key is lower. If it was sung as a D, while the song is in C, it would sound dissonant and icky, so it was changed to a C instead!
It's so poignant that Frollo ends up burning in a "Hellfire", and Esmerelda is sent up to heaven. :')
Jarod Rhine-Davis the two songs
I know that the “yes you do” part is supposed to be serious, but I’m gonna play devil’s advocate and say that a huge reason that audiences end up laughing is the fact that there’s this sliver of humor in the beat of silence where you can practically hear Quasimodo thinking “bet” moments before killing him. Because as the audience, we know he’s going to give Frollo a piece of the hell he’s been giving Esmeralda + the Romani people, Quasimodo, and Phoebus (and, partly the audience, since we’re along for the ride with them), so there’s a feeling of just desserts and glee in him saying that while we all see him as a man deserving such a death. A lot of laughter in things like that is the sheer catharsis of seeing the antagonist’s own cruelty be turned on them.
Also, bc I don’t know how to edit comments, I wanna add that this entire finale is a hell of a lot to take in. As an audience, it’s common for things that shouldn’t be funny in the context become funny because you’re so overwhelmed with everything that your mind starts searching for relief.
Case in point, Letter From the Refuge from Newsies having a few lines where people laugh despite the fact that it’s the darkest song in the show, if not darkest scene (Since it includes guards basically telling a kid to kill himself bc he won’t survive as a disabled teenager in the corrupt prison). The brain doesn’t like processing that much darkness and pain at once, so the slightest thing becomes funny in an attempt to release stress.
@@Diamondxjester yes!! I've been guilty many times for laughing at inappropriate moments for this very reason. Kiss of the spider woman was also a great example of this type of "humour".
"bet"
Frollo: You don’t want to hurt me.
Gargoyles: Do It YoU wOn’T!
Quasi: YEET!
Yeah, idk what the lyricist was thinking here. I laugh at that line every time 😂
"The world is cruel, the world is ugly- but there are times and there are people when the world is not; and at its cruelest, it's still the only world we've got..." that makes my heart ache to hear because it's so true. Since the beginning of time, the world was both cruel but also wonderful, both painful but also forgiving.
It's beautiful and so true. This musical is truly a work of art. So Human, in both its cruelest and most hopeful moments.
"I told you master, I am very strong"
"You don't want to hurt me"
*Whispers* "Yes you do."
Goosebumps moments (for me anyway)
2:31 - SANCTUS! SANCUTUARY!
9:04 - DAMNATION! I don't even know why, the chord must've been placed at a very appropriate time or something
11:00 - That phrase is just so pure!
11:18 - KEY CHANGE + CHOIR ENTRANCE = JOYFUL TEARS
13:05 - I obviously like the final few bars, but it is the lead in to that I really start to get excited
Here's mine: 0:00-13:43
That 9:04 chord sounds a lot like Mars
For me:
"You don't want to hurt me!"
_"Yes you do."_
When Phoebus sings brings me to tears every time I stg
12:57 makes me tear up
Damn, Pheobus's small callback to "Someday" to rally the people at 3:12 is honestly the main reason I listen to this on repeat
And it's also a historical call-forward - to that time when the patience of the people of Paris finally DID break
"Hear me, people of Paris!"
And it's instant chills
Megan B he gives me that Enjolras vibe. Both rallying up people and encouraging them to fight for a better tomorrow.
banana
4:30 There is never too much of hellfire
"Sanctuary!" "Sanctus!" Sanctuary!" "Sanctus! In excelsis!"
In English, the choir's part reads "Holy, holy, in the highest!"
Note that Quasimodo and Esmerelda are in the heights of the cathedral at this moment.
Just one example of the amazing use of Latin texts in this masterpiece.
OMGGG I LOVE THAT PART!!!
It literally translates to “Holy Sanctuary!” “Holy Sanctuary!” “Holy in the highest!”
Idk, I just LOVE how it it refers to the sanctuary as holy, it gives me goosebumps 😭😭
My old highschool just got done with hunchback and I was in the choir as an alum, and EVERY NIGHT when the cast whispered "Yes you do", The audience would giggle as if it were supposed to be a funny bit and it pissed us all off so much!
YO SAME! My youth theatre did this musical and they would laugh and we are all like “huh!?”
George Washington yeah same!!! when VYT did it they just cracked up!
In high school, it's tough to do a production where you're taken seriously, but even in college productions audiences respond terribly. I don't even remember the name of the damn thing (whoever the director was didn't understand how blindness worked and how it pertained to the script--I don't even want to get into it), but long story short: pissed off con man trying to murder a blind woman in a dark apartment. You know he's capable of murder and you're PRAYING he doesn't find light. He does find light--cleverly opening the fridge--and is CRAWLING ACROSS THE ROOM COVERED IN BLOOD going towards her; it was genuinely terrifying to be inside the theater. It was also really uncomfortable to watch. People LAUGHED. I would hate to be the con man COVERED in fake blood going all out for his friends and family and general strangers just to be laughed at! I kept my mouth shut and enjoyed the scene in terror. I just wish people would learn to handle their discomfort. But maybe actors don't care as much as I think they do. *shrug*
@homeinwonderland our director talked to us about this: apparently audiences laugh at these kinds of scenes as an "uncomfortable" laugh, or as a way to release tension if the production/scene itself is intense. i kind of get it, but it's still very confusing.
take my scenario when VYT did it: esmeralda has just died, all the gargoyles are on the bridge with their heads down(it's what they do when someone dies, our director says). the music is building up with haunting latin as quasimodo's pushing frollo up the staircase onto the bridge. frollo says, "you don't want to hurt me." the gargoyles' heads slowly tilt up, look to frollo, and whisper "yes you *do*" in a way that still makes me shiver, with a look of terror on frollo's face. then the audience just completely bursts into laughter. it happened every single show.
It is a little funny. I was in a production that performed in Las Vegas and Nebraska and people always laughed. It be like that sometimes.
Nice of the Archdeacon to have brought outside the entire choir just so Quasimodo might have some intense background music to his rescuing Esmeralda.
yarpen26
Lmao
The choir is watching from heaven. They sing when they feel the need to ;-)
It's funnier... beacuse *Frollo* is the Archdeacon in this version.
@@wandanemer2630 Yep, in this version and the original book, Frollo _is_ the Archdeacon. In the Disney version they were split and made into two separate characters, because back in the 90s if there was one thing you couldn't get away with it was being seen to throw shade at the Catholic Church. So they made Frollo a secular, but extremely "pious", Judge, and had the Archdeacon a separate character who acted as Frollo's moral compass in sparing Quasimodo as a baby.
@@rollingthunder1043 I know right? But even still... Frollo's character in the movie kind of *did* manage to throw a lot of shade at the Catholic church. Even if he did as methaphor. But got away with it because he "wasn't the archdeacon" there.
Funny, because most people still remember him as being a sort of corrupted religious figure rather than literally "Judge" Claude Frollo.
And I think that's hillarious.
This song is my favourite use of motifs in any musical.
Phoebus singing Esmeraldas "Someday" to rally the people under her message, and the townsfolk later repeating it again to mourn her death.
Quasimodo turning "Made of Stone", the song of his despair and lowest point, into his battlecry.
The gargoyles turning Frollos "Sanctuary" into a message of hope, transitioning into Quasi finally getting to be "Out there".
And finally Clopin repeating his riddle from the beginning, now that we (and Quasimodo) have learned the answer.
My god, I didn't even know that I had that many different emotions.
They should really sing the reprise of Bells of Notre Dame when the cathedral herself is restored. That would make such a flash mob.
I demand the entire musical to be played on the reopening day. For free.
People would go INSANE.
@@wandanemer2630 and they could sing it in French or Emglish😊! That is, if the people are ok with it.
That would be amazing!
and by the way, the movie foreshadowed the fire: True, that's because it's on fire
When Esmeralda sings “in my eyes, you are beautiful too” I want to cry.
And I NEVER cry at shows, music or films!
(Phoebus’s part)
[PHOEBUS]
Hear me, people of Paris
How much oppression will you allow
[CHOIR]
Olim deus accelere
Hoc saeculum splendidum
[PHOEBUS]
Someday your patience will finally break
Why not make someday come right now
reminds me of Les Mis "One day More"
Man, I wish the movie had gone with an ending like this instead of the "happily ever after one"! I mean, I love a cute ending as much as the next person, but the musical is way more powerful and gets the message across better (also one of my favorite finales ever!!)
While I definitely like a tragic ending like the book's, I thought the animated adaptation still had enough darkness and maturity to earn its happy ending. One example being how Frollo was made purely evil and already succeeded in both killing many Gypsies and emotionally abusing Quasimodo, which made the characters' journey to overcome him a very dark struggle against some of the worst of humanity. Quasimodo still had to deal with a similar kind of unrequited romantic attraction, which was pretty ballsy for Disney. So it still gave enough of a window into Victor Hugo's story and themes for kids to witness and learn from, while still being happy, in my opinion.
However, if Disney were to somehow get the guts to do a live-action remake that tries to combine the best from the novel, animated musical, and Disney stage play versions, how would you like to see that have a tragic ending? I personally would love it, since it would be easier to hear a live-action movie towards an older audience that might prefer a darker ending.
The thing is that Disney never would have never been able to get way with an ending this dark, considering how dark the rest of the film was leading up to it, especially since it was animated. However, if they do decide to remake this in live-action I feel that it would be the right thing to do. A more mature story needs a more mature ending. Maybe don't kill off everyone like in the book, but at least kill off Esmerelda and have her be more of a martyr figure that like how she was in the musical.
Lauren Rose Goodman I disagree I actually think the Disney film is more emotional and powerful, as opposed to everyone just dying. Just because it was in the original doesn't necessarily make it better.
The Cinema Cynic they can if they don't use the Disney label, like what they did for Marvel (which they now own) and The Pirates of Carribean
Lauren Rose Goodman Esmeralda is my favorite character and, though I agree with you, I'd like to point something out. The movie is meant for younger children, and it was already pushing it on the fear/sad scale. The musical is based more on the book, and thus is more dark. Esmeralda is much like best friend, and her death in the musical reminds me how much I value her. The ending of the musical and the Disney movie both satisfy me for different reasons, so I enjoy both. I think the movie has the right balance of happy and sad to make it as good as it is.
God I cry when Esmeralda and Quasimodo's skeletons are found when I watched the play.
yeah.😟
Who else thinks Disney should remake Hunchback in live-action like this?
Kyle Reece The fact that this hasn't happened already is an unbelievable travesty.
Desmond Gentle agreed
I doubt Disney will take it their, unfortunately the Animated movie while brilliant didn't make what they thought due to it not being child friendly, doubt Disney will ever go this dark again, especially since this musical is ever darker than the Animated Movie.
With peter capaldi as frollo
DISNEY TAKE MY MONEY AND MAKE THIS A REALITY!
3:15 God, chills everywhere. The fact that Phoebus was coming to Paris to chill from being in the vanguard of the war and he still got involved with the outcast when he could turn away and do nothing, that's what a hero is all about
That woman at 11:00 makes me immediately cry every single time I hear this song. It's so involuntary now that I just start to sob.
starilie it’s the ghost of Florika singing that part (Quasimodo’s mother) I’m playing her in my local community theater production and I’m barely holding it together when I sing this part.
@@virgofairy88
Do you by any chnace have any clue what shes saying.
hopegirl518 Ashlynn
I was in this show last year, and Florika is singing in Latin. “Olim Deus accelere, hoc saeculum splendidum.” I don’t remember the exact, literal translation, but it’s essentially the lyrics of the song “Someday” in Latin, as in “Someday, Godspeed this bright millennium, Let it come someday.” Hope that helped! 😊
@@shannonm3863
Thats pretty. I really like the way they use latin in this show since Notre Dame is a Catholic Church
It's Florika's ghost
At 6:14 we all as a cast and choir had to give just a quiet sigh just loud enough for the audience to hear to signify Esmeralda’s last breath. That alone was enough to make me teary eyed, but that last “Out There” made me go to pieces.
That last "Out There" fucking *crushed* me...
Finally, this show dose justice to the original novel. Where the leads all die in the end.
Well, all except Phoebus. IIRC, we don't actually hear what happens to him in this production, it just sort of "ends" right after Esmeralda's death/ascension to Heaven. In the original novel, Esmeralda dies, then Quasimodo takes her down into the cathedral's crypts and stays with her until he, too, dies of starvation and thirst. Their bones are found together years later during a renovation. Phoebus survives the story, but goes on to marry his cousin. Who I gather isn't particularly pleasant.
12:39-13:42 Loved that they concluded with the same riddle, because it brings up all the esence of the story and feels like a new day might actually come and be better.
Gorgeous.
a little guide to the sections of the song with timestamps :)
(and a little 💟 to symbolize some crowd favorites! )
0:00 finale intro
0:28 the sentencing / execution
1:30 quasimodo’s stand
2:31 sanctus / sanctuary 💟
2:43 laws of sanctuary / quasimodo throws stones
3:14 somewhere (phoebus verse) 💟
3:40 doors down, molten lead
4:00 made of stone (reprise) 💟
4:49 top of the world (reprise) / esmeralda’s death
6:31 our sanctuary (reprise)
8:00 the argument / wicked shall not go unpunished
8:30 frollo’s death 💟
9:14 out there (reprise)
10:30 olim (reprise) 💟
11:00 someday (reprise)
12:19 the bells of notre dame (reprise)
I'd like to add the timestamp 11:00 for the "Someday" part
Esmeralda is my dream role. She is so powerful.
11:01 gets me every time, it's so powerful and the women who sings the solo gives me goosebumps every time. So beautiful😭
I belive its the woman who plays Florika.
The person who plays Florika is Samantha Massell :) I really love her voice its so lovely
3:32 "Why not make someday come right NOW!"
Love the way Phoebus screams the word "now" out loud.
In the production I saw of this Quadimodo didn't kill Frolo; so, listening to this the first time I was surprised. After they whispered 'yes you do' Quadimodo let go of Frolo, and went over to look over the city. Frolo grabbed a knife, and tried to kill Quadimodo, but he jumped out of the way and his momentum propelled Frolo over the edge. I liked this better, because it is where I got a lot of My answer to the riddle of the bells, which we much all decide for ourselves. Frolo was a monster because he always acted on his sinful and selfish urges. He had no love or self control. Quadimodo, however, only acted out of love and had the self control to realise he did want to hurt Frolo, but he didn't. He had the self restraint to be better than Frolo. Clearly, even with Quadimodo killing Frolo, Frolo is still an overall evil person and Quadimodo is genuinely good person, in general, but I liked the ending the production I saw had. It meant a lot to me.
Savanna Henderson i like this version better because I feel that if Quasimodo hadn't killed Frollo, he would be just a sweet Disney character. In truth, nobody is perfect. Not even Quasimodo.
I love how Clopin gives us the same question he asks us in the begining. I don't know what it does. But it just hits me.
It's goddamn beautiful that's what it is. 😢😍
I really feel like frollo was going to say "I loved!... You..." but he didnt
Evilkat23 It's a perfect pause, indeed because of the true reason he took Quasimodo in. He did so because he (Quasimodo) was Jahan's only son. Practically the only evidence of Jahan's existence and Frollo couldn't bare the thought of any part of his brother fading into nothing but memory.
Frollo only cared for Quasimodo through the memory of his brother and no other.
In the live musical, he actually reaches out to Quasimodo for a moment, and then pulls away. D:
O O F
It almost sounds melodic when he says that, and then he continues in a regular speaking voice. Gets me every time.
just markers for myself;
3:15 here me, people of Paris~
5:24 here again at the top of the world~ (Esmeralda)
6:31 Esmeralda died
9:19 the world is cruel...
10:34 someday theme (chorus)
11:19 someday life will be kinder...
12:13 the bells of notre dame waltz
Frollo: 101 Damnations
I WAS CRYING AND THEN I SAW THIS FUCKING COMMENT AND NOW I'M DYING-
This is funny because I just got a Dalmatian a few months ago and was looking for this comment.
Edit: we gave her away a few months ago
Im so excited. Our high school is doing this musical and im playing Quasimodo. I cant wait to do the finale (and pour the boiling lead everywhere 😂)
That's so cool! Congratulations! Break all the legs! :)
AWorldWithoutTenors thanks!
AceIsThePlace thanks!
I’d love to see a video of the production!
NO way, my high school is also doing this, I’m apart of the Pit Orchestra. We’re holding our 3 shows tomorrow Friday and Saturday. I’m so excited because everyone sounds so good cast and pit.
I saw the Japanese version of this musical and I got chills. Hearing this give more *CHILLS*
This also made me regret not focusing more in choir.
There's a Japanese version?! I have to get out more.
If I ever get to do this show and sing the very end in the middle of the choir, I'll probably end up having tears running down my face just in rehearsal.
A H it's very chilling indeed
I did this show in Rochester, NY, and that is EXACTLY what it's like. Lawd, the feels.
i've done this show and can confirm there wasn't a dry face in the room the first time we rehearsed this!! unforgettable
I'm in a choir for this show. As soon as we started learning the finale, I was teary. The finale is so powerful.
Extremely powerfull can go onto repeat into and end intro and end
The staggered lines of the choir for "the wicked shall not go unpunished", escalating through the transition into Latin, one of my favorite little additions for the show.
Honestly Phoebus’ call to the people of Paris just hits different for me. It just riles me up and fills me with so much emotion. When that part plays I just lose my breath
reminds me of Les Mis "One day More."
(Frollo wakes up on the cold hard ground outside Notre Dame after Quasimodo threw him off the roof. he finds his archdeacon robes gone and he is back in his orphan clothing. he walks Into Notre Dame to find his brother Jehan looking at him in Disappointment)
Claude: Brother?
Jehan: Did you do it?
Claude: Yes
Jehan: What did it cost.
Claude: Everything.
I just had to do it.
I shouldn't have laughed at this comment
@@schanez2000 that's actually what I was going for.
cbolanz1 i don't get it. Please explain😅
@@schanez2000 i liked this comment a year ago not understanding it. Now that I'm in the avengers fandom I understand now and this is hilarious
Edit: oops i @ed the wrong person
@@glecyrances1874 It's called an Infinity War meme
The original book was just okay, but it does contain an amazing epilogue for the story
~~ Spoilers ~~
We have just said that Quasimodo disappeared from Notre- Dame on the day of the gypsy's and of the archdeacon's death. He was not seen again, in fact; no one knew what had become of him.
During the night which followed the execution of la Esmeralda, the night men had detached her body from the gibbet, and had carried it, according to custom, to the cellar of Montfau on.
Montfau on was, as Sauval says, "the most ancient and the most superb gibbet in the kingdom." Between the faubourgs of the Temple and Saint Martin, about a hundred and sixty toises from the walls of Paris, a few bow shots from La Courtille, there was to be seen on the crest of a gentle, almost imperceptible eminence, but sufficiently elevated to be seen for several leagues round about, an edifice of strange form, bearing considerable resemblance to a Celtic cromlech, and where also human sacrifices were offered.
Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone, thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung chains at intervals; on all these chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain, a stone cross and two gibbets of secondary importance, which seemed to have sprung up as shoots around the central gallows; above all this, in the sky, a perpetual flock of crows; that was Montfau on.
At the end of the fifteenth century, the formidable gibbet which dated from 1328, was already very much dilapidated; the beams were wormeaten, the chains rusted, the pillars green with mould; the layers of hewn stone were all cracked at their joints, and grass was growing on that platform which no feet touched. The monument made a horrible profile against the sky; especially at night when there was a little moonlight on those white skulls, or when the breeze of evening brushed the chains and the skeletons, and swayed all these in the darkness. The presence of this gibbet sufficed to render gloomy all the surrounding places.
The mass of masonry which served as foundation to the odious edifice was hollow. A huge cellar had been constructed there, closed by an old iron grating, which was out of order, into which were cast not only the human remains, which were taken from the chains of Montfau on, but also the bodies of all the unfortunates executed on the other permanent gibbets of Paris. To that deep charnel-house, where so many human remains and so many crimes have rotted in company, many great ones of this world, many innocent people, have contributed their bones, from Enguerrand de Marigni, the first victim, and a just man, to Admiral de Coligni, who was its last, and who was also a just man.
As for the mysterious disappearance of Quasimodo, this is all that we have been able to discover.
About eighteen months or two years after the events which terminate this story, when search was made in that cavern for the body of Olivier le Daim, who had been hanged two days previously, and to whom Charles VIII. had granted the favor of being buried in Saint Laurent, in better company, they found among all those hideous carcasses two skeletons, one of which held the other in its embrace. One of these skeletons, which was that of a woman, still had a few strips of a garment which had once been white, and around her neck was to be seen a string of adrézarach beads with a little silk bag ornamented with green glass, which was open and empty. These objects were of so little value that the executioner had probably not cared for them. The other, which held this one in a close embrace, was the skeleton of a man. It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades, and that one leg was shorter than the other. Moreover, there was no fracture of the vertebrae at the nape of the neck, and it was evident that he had not been hanged. Hence, the man to whom it had belonged had come thither and had died there. When they tried to detach the skeleton which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.
waIT... SHE FRICKING DIES????!!?!?!?!
... AND HE KILLS FROLO??????
WHAT IS THIS???!!?!?!
ZipZapZop not Disney, that what lol😂
Actually, Disney owns the production and the music. So yeah... Disney.
And in the book (and some productions) Quasimodo dies too
@@Needanapnow That's a lot of death... but that really shouldn't bother me... I listen to Heathers.
In the novel they all died,is a tragic novel.
i had to opportunity to be in Hunchback. and lemme just say when Esmeralda was on the pyre, the audience was BAWLING... and so was i
Who did you play?
"Someday
Life will be kinder
Love will be blinder
Some new afternoon"
POETRY! This is the BEST musical ever written.
9:31 - 12:18 is some of the most beautiful pieces of musical theatre I think I've ever heard.
It's so heartwrenching and gorgeous, every second after 9:30 is just beautiful...
The act that this never made it to broadway but the fucking frozen and spongebob musicals did makes me weep for humanity jfc.
Not saying that either show will or does suck but for fucks sake this show is a masterpiece on a level those two can only dream of. It’s truly unfair and just speaks to the importance and influence of money over art.
The reason this didn't make it to Broadway is because of the cost of paying each individual choir member as well as the set itself. It is so depressing that it won't be om Broadway. Hopefully SOMEDAY we'll be able to see it on Broadway!
Be happy instead of other musicals throwing their best aspect to please broadway(Nick Jonas les misarables Jeckyll and Hyde David hasslehoff) They didn't risk giving a Inferior version with no choir and the set making it bad like how the movie went with soccer mom's asking for frollo not to be priest and how it was made kiddy in that aspect this was way better
Like Disney had a heart to not to make a bad musical that generates money instead a good musical with a heart big bucks doesn't mean always a good piece of work
The world is cruel, the world is ugly. But there are times and there are people when the world is not. And at its cruelest it’s still the only world we got. Light and dark, foul and fair... out there
My fucking favourite part in this whole masterpiece. We should all remember that more.
At the end I instinctively quoted, "Don't you ever migrate?" XD
~:~
Natalie Harshman Me too! Especially since it was the actress' final role in acting.
Natalie Harshman She died a few months before the film released. The animated film is dedicated to her.
Menken's neglected masterwork, and Disney's greatest mistake. This NEEDS to be on Broadway!!
This musical and in particular this fragment of the musical is the greatest achievement in music I have ever heard mankind conceive.
It is so encapsulating, grandiose and ceaselessly powerful that you have to sit back and let wherever your mind was disappear until this music paints its canvas.
It is extraordinary. An example of the potential of our species and the very pinnacle of talent, creativity, emotion and ensemble.
It's just breathtaking!
YES. EXACTLY EXACTLY
My personal highlight was all the reprises done in this final act,The World is Cruel, Out There, Top of the World, Esmeralda, Someday & Made of Stone & Last but not Least, Bells Of Notre Dame, making this finale so much more powerful as a culmination of everything.
Bless this work of art, no This Masterpiece
The “oooo” at 10:45 really get me every time. My friends and I in the stage crew for this show were hugging and crying at this point
Li Says Hello
The part I always had to struggle to hold back tears in the production I was in was when Quasimodo cries and says, “All I ever loved....”
9:15 is when my favorite part begins. "The world is cruel, the world is ugly, but there are times and there are people when the world is not... and at its cruelest, it's still the only world we've got."
I love the molten lead bit.
Mihoshika Furude me too, I love how they put pieces of made of stone in it.
Same. I loved the intensity and rage in his voice.
4:00 Rage of Quasimodo
After I graduate college, I am going to be a theatre teacher/director. This will be my first show.
Put it on TH-cam?
Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz and Scott Schwartz deserve undying praise for this adaptation and production. Perfect in every way.
I love this musical, I myself call it Disney's Les Miserables
And it's quite true.
Both are great imo
They're both written by the same person, so it makes sense.
The Disney movie: the only time Frollo wasn't yeeted out of the church.
And yet, even the musical can't avoid the Almighty YEET
The Almighty Yeet I'm dying
It's sad when Quasimodo asks Frollo if he has ever loved anyone Frollo had a chance to say that he loves Quasimodo but he doesn't. Frollo has probably already known deep down that he never actually loved him. He certainly cared for the boy, wished him good, raised him the way he thought was right for this creature and maybe sometimes tried his best to love him but he just couldn't bring himself to do it, no matter how hard he tried. And Quasimodo just had that shown to him when Frollo had to stop himself before mentioning his brother.
What makes a monster and what makes a man is where his heart and compassion lies. This show will always move me to tears.
"There lie all that I ever loved!"
Banana Boat Charlie Oh, now YOU made me cry!!!
I wish this recording had that line! Its so powerful.
And that wail afterwards is enough to wrench tears.
That line 😭💔
GREAT! NOW IM CRYING! BEFORE SCHOOL I MIGHT ADD-
"Yes you do.." MAN
If only there was a way to listen to this track without the acting and narrating, but instead leave the music and choir, man I would LOVE to hear that for this track.
This literally has a Pavlov's reflex on my eyes. I start crying immediately.
GOD!!!!!! I LOVE THE ENDING !!! IT GETS ME SO PUMPED!!! I cannot wait to direct this show myself one day
It's so powerful!
my favorite parts in this song is when phoebus inspires the people to rebel with the choir singing latin as an echo and florika’s solo with the ensemble & choir singing
I just love that when Quasimodo says "The wicked shall not go Unpunished" the choir stops at 8:15
Thats actully not Quasimodo. Its his father Jehan. And the following line is sung by Florkia.
hopegirl518 Ashlynn I remember watching a video of the Papermill version of the musical and when Esmeralda started walking to heaven i thought it was her beginning to sing in Latin. Until someone corrected me it was Florika, according to the script😊.
@@glecyrances1874 Yeah, it's Samantha Massel, the actress who plays Florika, who sings this part. But to be fair, she also did understudy for Ciara Renee(who played Esmeralda officially, and in this recording) as Esmeralda too!
Quasi was just a innocent child who wanted happiness! 😭🤧
He was innocent... not anymore, but he was
@Matthew Matousek who did Quasi kill other than Frollo?
I haven't read the full book yet but i have a feeling that he killed people out of Frollo's orders. Or something.
He is 20 years old. XD
@@wandanemer2630 and in the book, Quasi kills Jehan when Jehan and the rest of the gypsies tried to storm Notre Dame, he did it by bashing him against the wall, and Jehan died with brains coming out of his skull
Golly ... THIS is the perfect mix of the two versions!!
Whatever their pitch you
Can feel them bewitch you
The rich and the ritual knells
Of the Bells of Notre Dame
宮藤芳佳 i loved that line so much!
Aaggh it slays me! Everytime!
Today I heard the soundtrack of this wonderful story again & thought about coming back to Notre Dame someday. & later I hear that it burns down. It's just a tragedy.
"You don't want to hurt me!!"
"yes you DO!"
My favorite part
Jesus! Those are some damn impressive whistle belting notes at the end!
That's a product of true art and discipline!
I also just realized at the end. It's not 'Morning.' in Paris. But "Mourning."
such powerful and beatiful music: 1:30 to 2:31 and 4:00 to 4:41.
I love this whole song, but Quasi’s scream for Esmeralda at the beginning gets me every time.
"Made of stone" took me by surprise and blew me with emotion ! My favorite in this new version.
I got Goosebumps in in my Goosebumps 😍
Of course, right as 10:00 rolls around an instagram add starts blasting its happy, cheerful music. Way to kill the mood.
15:40
Imagine it was Enjolras singing when Phoebus started singing at 3:15. Also i always smile everytime people talk about how they get Les Mis vibes from Phoebus. He's clearly the Enjolras character in this one😊 (though i'm pretty sure he's got a way different personality in the book).
I was a part of this show and every night we sang this song(I was in the Congregation), I got chills
JUDEX CREDERIS ESSE VENTURUS IN TE DOMINE SPERAVI NON CONFUNDAR IN AETERNUM SALVUM FAC POPULUM
TUUM
JUDEX CREDERIS FROLLO: The prisoner has been found guilty of entering the city of Paris illegally, guilty of stabbing a soldier in the church, and guilty of the crime of witchcraft. The sentence is death! I will give you this opportunity to recant and save yourself. (Whispers to Esmeralda) Think of what I've offered. What is your answer? ESMERALDA: (Spits in Frollo's face) LIBERA ME DOMINE
FROLLO: For the justice of the realm and for the salvation of Paris, it is my sacred duty to send this unholy demon back to hell! QUASIMODO: Esmeralda! LIBERA ME DOMINE DE MORTE AETERNA CONGREGATION: And at that moment, Quasimodo decided… IN DIE ILLA TREMENDA QUANDO CAELI MOVENDI SUNT CONGREGATION: He could remain still no longer… CAELI ET TERRA CONGREGATION: He broke free of the ropes… DUM VENERE JUDICARE CONGREGATION: That were tied to the pillars… SAECULUM PER IGNEM CONGREGATION: He slid down the facade like a drop of rain and climbed to the balustrade. SALUTARIS SALUTARIS HOSTIA QUAE CAELI PANDIS OSTIUM BELLA PREMUNT HOSTILIA DA ROBUR FER AUXILIUM SIT SEMPITERNA GLORIA SIT SEMPITERNA GLORIA SIT SEMPITERNA GLORIA GLORIA GLORIA SEMPER SANCTUS QUASIMODO: Sanctuary! SANCTUS QUASIMODO: Sanctuary! IN EXCELSIS CONGREGATION: Quasimodo set the girl down in the the belltower and went to bar the great doors of Notre Dame cathedral so that no one could get in. FROLLO: Captain, seize the cathedral! FREDERICK: But sir, the laws of sanctuary! FROLLO: I am the archdeacon of this cathedral, I negate the laws of sanctuary! Open those doors! FREDERICK: Open those doors! Throw them down if you must! CONGREGATION: As the soldiers attempted to throw open the church doors, they suddenly saw Quasimodo hurl giant stones and wooden beams. DIES IRAE DIES ILLA DIES IRAE DIES ILLA FROLLO: Fools! Break down the doors! CONGREGATION: Captain Phoebus, freed from his bars and the heroic Clopin rallied the people of Paris to fight the soldiers. PHOEBUS: They must not be allowed to enter! HERE ME PEOPLE OF PARIS OLIM DEUS ACCELERE SOMEDAY YOUR PATIENCE WILL FINALLY PAY HOC SAECULUM SPLENDIDUM ACCELERE FIAT VENIRE OLIM WHY NOT MAKE SOMEDAY COME RIGHT NOW? CONGREGATION: The people fought the soldiers but could not hold them back. The soldiers heaved and hurled, until at last, with one final blow, they knocked down the doors. And Quasimodo, seeing their invasion, ran back and forth trying to find a way to stop them. Until, he came across the great vat of molten lead sitting up on the roof. MORS STUPEBIT ET NATURA CUM RESURGET CREATURA JUDICANTI RESPONSURA SOLDIER: My god, look up there! He's way up there! COME ALL YOU SAINTS OF STONE ALL YOU GUARDIANS AND GARGOYLES HURL DOWN STONES INTO THE NIGHT THROW THE LADDERS DOWN AND LIGHT THESE VATS OF LEAD STEAMING, BOILING STREAMS OF LEAD BURNING LEAD AND LET THE FLAMES GROW HIGHER OH, SAINTS AND MONSTERS SHOW YOUR POWER HELP ME TO SEND THIS RAGING SHOWER RAINING FIRE ON THE STONE BELOW…! QUASIMODO: We've done it, Esmeralda! Beaten them back! Esmeralda? You are home. ESMERALDA: Home? HERE AGAIN AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD TWO FRIENDS ENJOYING THIS BEAUTIFUL MORNING IN MY EYES YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, TOO SHARING THE TOP OF THE WORLD QUASIMODO: Stay inside here forever. ESMERALDA: I don't think…forever. You are such a good friend, Quasimodo. QUASIMODO: Yes, your friend. Esmeralda? Esmeralda, wake up! FROLLO: Is she dead? QUASIMODO: Because of you! FROLLO: It was my duty. QUASIMODO: Duty? FROLLO: Now we can finally go back to the way things were. QUASIMODO: No! FROLLO: We will. You'll see… AT LAST WE'RE FREE OF ESMERALDA NOW THAT SHE'S GONE HER POISON DIES WITH HER NOW THAT WE'RE FREE OF ESMERALDA WE CAN GO ON AS CLOSE AS ONCE WE WERE HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY SANCTUARY… QUASIMODO: Sanctuary? No sanctuary wihout her! FROLLO: It was her choice, Quasimodo. I could have helped her. Even loved her. QUASIMODO: Love? What do you know of love? Who have you ever loved? FROLLO: I-I loved my brother. I tried to teach him. QUASIMODO: You? Teach him? FROLLO: Yes, as I tried to teach you! But he was wicked and weak! QUASIMODO: He? You are the weak one. You're the wicked one! And the wicked shall not go unpunished! THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED THE HEART OF THE WICKED IS OFF LITTLE WORTH THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED SOLVET SAECULUM IN FAVILLA TESTE DAVID CUM SYBILLA QUANTUS TREMOR EST FUTURUS QUANDO JUDEX EST VENTURUS FROLLO: Let go of me! Quasimodo, no, don't! QUASIMODO: I told you, master. I am very strong! FROLLO: You don't want to hurt me! CONGREGATION: Yes, you do. Quasimodo raised his two huge hands and, with a great bellow, threw his master over the edge of the roof into the abyss below. FROLLO: Damnation…! QUASIMODO: There lies all that I have ever loved. PHOEBUS: Esmeralda? QUASIMODO: Gone…gone… PHOEBUS: No… THE WORLD IS CRUEL THE WORLD IS UGLY BUT THERE ARE TIMES AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHEN THE WORLD IS NOT AND AT ITS CRUELEST IT'S STILL THE ONLY WORLD WE'VE GOT LIGHT AND DARK FOUL AND FAIR OUT THERE… OLIM DEUS ACCELERE HOC SAECULUM SPLENDIDUM CONGREGATION AND SOMEDAY LIFE WILL BE KINDER LOVE WILL BE BLINDER SOME NEW AFTERNOON GODSPEED THIS BRIGHT MILLENNIUM HOPE LIVES ON WISH UPON THE MOON LET IT COME ONE DAY… SOMEDAY… CONGREGATION AND SOON… MORNING IN PARIS A NEW DAY APPEARS SING THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME ENDING THE TALE OF YOUR POOR BALLADEERS SING THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME AND I WISH I COULD LEAVE YOU A MORAL LIKE A TRINKET YOU HOLD IN YOUR PALM BUT HERE IS A RIDDLE TO GUESS IF YOU CAN SING THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME WHAT MAKES A MONSTER AND WHAT MAKES A MAN? SING THE BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS… WHATEVER THEIR PITCH YOU CAN FEEL THEM BEWITCH YOU THE RICH AND THE RITUAL KNELLS OF THE… ALL: BELLS OF NOTRE DAME!
Beautiful!
When Quasi says Esmeralda wake up I just want to cry at that point it’s just so sad.
3:15 is just awesome >.