The Hunchback of Notre Dame musical cast recording.

[Sped2424]

So the cast recording for the new Hunchback of Notre dame musical that did a brief run at la Jolla has finally been released. And my goodness the fact that it isn't headed to broadway is one of the largest crimes I have seen in recent memory.



So have any of you heard it? All I can say is where the film lacked in trying to balance being an animated film directed at children and a dark tale the play fully commits to the story it's trying to tell and succeeds in chill inducing ways.

 

[RandomPrincess]

I think Disney got scared because it's an adult show made from a kids movie. All the reviews in CA and NY were good and the crowds seemed to enjoy it.

 

[Sped2424]

I think Disney got scared because it's an adult show made from a kids movie. All the reviews in CA and NY were good and the crowds seemed to enjoy it.

I think disney also doesn't want to cannibalize their other shows on broadway especially with them wanting to put the focus on Frozen in 2017.

 

[Tony Perkis]

Everything I read was that the show had significant tonal and structural issues. They tried to bring over the maturity of the highly-lauded German production while dumbing it down for younger audiences to the point where the show was fundamentally and maddeningly broken. It's a shame because the music in the show and film is arguably the best that Disney has ever done.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...ack-of-notre-dame-review-20141114-column.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/t...-notre-dame-at-paper-mill-playhouse.html?_r=0

http://variety.com/2014/legit/reviews/hunchback-notre-dame-musical-review-disney-1201352620/

If many of these reviews are accurate, I'm hoping Disney holds off giving this show a real Broadway release until the story and tone are fixed. This material is too good not to get it right before the big release.

 

[Sped2424]

I have only seen the story through the lens of the soundtrack and what I have heard I have loved. I think the production could use whatever fine tuning they think it does before proceding. But as you have said the material here is to rich and worth it to simply leave be.

 

[Tony Perkis]

I have only seen the story through the lens of the soundtrack and what I have heard I have loved. I think the production could use whatever fine tuning they think it does before proceding. But as you have said the material here is to rich and worth it to simply leave be.

If the music worked, but everything else didn't, then this would crash and burn on Broadway. It'd take a financial and critical drubbing, thus effectively killing any opportunity for a truly worthy adaptation in the future.

The music was already good. That was never the concern.

 

[Sped2424]

If the music worked, but everything else didn't, then this would crash and burn on Broadway. It'd take a financial and critical drubbing, thus effectively killing any opportunity for a truly worthy adaptation in the future.

The music was already good. That was never the concern.

I understand that why are you telling me this?

 

[Tony Perkis]

I understand that why are you telling me this?

Because this is a forum.

 

[Sped2424]

Because this is a forum.

Okay lol It just seemed strange you were repeating a point I made and agreed with as if I didn't understand it.