The Hunchback of Notre Dame - The Musical - Script

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CHARACTERS: QUASIMODO DOM CLAUDE FROLLO ESMERELDA CAPTAIN PHOEBUS DE MARTIN CLOPIN TROUILLEFOU JEHAN FROLLO SAINT APHRODISIUS FLORIKA FATHER DUPIN LIEUTENANT FREDERIC CHARLUS KING LOUIS XI TRIBUNAL MADAM CONGREGATION/ QUASIMODO’S GARGOYLES/ GYPSIES/ TOWNSPEOPLE/ SOLDIERS (12 - 15 MEMBERS) CHORAL ENSEMBLE (30 - 40 MEMBERS)

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Setting: Paris, 1482 ACT I 1. OLIM…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 2. BELLS OF NOTRE DAME…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….5 3. SANCTUARY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..14 3A. SANCTUARY II………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…..15 4. OUT THERE………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….16 5. TOPSY TURVY………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………18 6. REST AND RECREATION………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………20 6A. REST AND RECREATION II………………………………………………………………………………………………….……22 6B. TOPSY TURVY II……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….23 7. RHYTHM OF THE TAMBOURINE…………………………….…………………………………………………………..……24 8. TOPSY TURVY III………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…25 8A. TOPSY TURVY IV…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………27 8B. SANCTUARY IV……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…….30 9A. BELLS OF NOTRE DAME II…………………………………………………………………………………………………..……31 10. GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS………………………………………………………………………………………………………..32 10B. OUT THERE II….……………….…………………………………………………………………..………..……………………..…34 12. TOP OF THE WORLD…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..36 13. THE TAVERN SONG (THAI MOL PIYAS)…………………………………………………………………………………..40 14. HEAVEN’S LIGHT………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………..……..44 15. HELLFIRE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….44 15B. ESMERELDA’S EDICT…………………..…………………………………………………………………………….………..……..48 16. ESMERELDA…………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………48 ACT II 17. ENTR’ACTE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……..54 18. FLIGHT INTO EGYPT……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….55 18A. BELLS OF NOTRE DAME III……………………………………………………………………………………………………..59 18B. ESMERELDA II……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………59 19. SANCTUARY V…………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………..……60 19B. REST AND RECREATION REPRISE………………………………………………………………………………………….60 20. COURT OF MIRACLES…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………62 21. IN A PLACE OF MIRACLES………………………………………………………………………………………………………….65 21A. BELLS OF NOTRE DAME IV………………………………………………………………………………………………….…..68 22B. SANCTUARY VI…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……69 23. SOMEDAY………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………71 23B. OUT THERE III………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…73 24. MADE OF STONE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………74 25. FINALE ULTIMO………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..…75

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

ACT 1 1, OLIM

(Chorus)

SCENE 1: The Cathedral of NOTRE DAME CHORUS: (the CONGREGATION walk on stage fully robed. CLOPIN, robed as well, walks through the center with a thurible.) OLIM OLIM DEUS ACCELERE HOC SAECULUM SPLENDIDUM ACCELERE FIAT VENIRE OLIM

2. BELLS OF NOTRE DAME

(Company and Chorus)

(The stage is filled with the light of Notre Dame and the CONGREGATION face the audience and carry out the opening chords) CLOPIN (robed): MORNING IN PARIS THE CITY AWAKES TO THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME CONGREGATION: THE FISHERMAN FISHES THE BAKER-MAN BAKES TO THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME PHOEBUS (robed): TO THE BIG BELLS AS LOUD AS THE THUNDER CONGREGATION: TO THE LITTLE BELLS SOFT AS A PSALM ESMERELDA (robed): AND SOME SAY THE SOUL OF THE CITY’S THE TOLL OF CONGREGATION: THE BELLS THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CONGREGATION: On the Morning of January 6th, 1482, the good citizens of Paris gathered at the cathedral to listen to the sermon… (DOM CLAUDE FROLLO enters, robed. He stands centerstage, addressing the CONGREGATES of Notre Dame). FROLLO: …of Dom Claude Frollo… CONGREGATION: …archdeacon of Notre Dame, before whom the congregation trembled as he stopped beneath the lofty arches of the church. FROLLO: Congregants, we gather here, in this vast symphony of stone, on the morning of the Feast of Fools. Our streets will soon be filled with those unsavory elements: criminals, foreigners, and gypsies, who have infested our city, and are on this one day free to roam without being subject to arrest. Beware the temptations of those less devout than we. We must fight the urge to indulge ourselves. For remember, we are all born sinners. CONGREGATION LONG YEARS AGO DID THIS STORY BEGIN IN THIS PLACE CALLED NOTRE DAME TWO ORPHAN BROTHERS WERE BOTH TAKEN IN BY THE GRACE OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO (de-robes): CLAUDE, THE OLDER WHO CARED FOR HIS BROTHER JEHAN (from the CONGREGATES, also de-robes): YOUNG JEHAN, FULL OF BEAUTY AND CHARM BOTH: AND THEY LIVED AND THEY GREW AND AWOKE TO THE MUSIC OF BELLS ALL: THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON FROLLO OH DEAR BROTHER MEET THESE ARCHES AND THIS SACRED DOME CHORUS KYRIE ELEISON

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO WE ARE BLESSED TO FIND OUR SANCTUARY AND OUR HOME JEHAN: (lovingly picks up his brother and hugs him) Come with me dear brother! I’m heading into town for a little fun. FROLLO: No, Jehan, you must stay home and write out your catechism. JEHAN: No, you must come with me to the bar! FROLLO: Jehan! I am not going to lie for you again if you stay up late. JEHAN: Yes you will. Brother dear! (He kisses FROLLO’s cheek) You are so good to me. (JEHAN exits). CONGREGATION RIGHTEOUS CLAUDE FROLLO WAS EVER MORE DRAWN LIKE A SON TO NOTRE DAME JEHAN (entering): NOT LIKE HIS PROFLIGATE BROTHER JEHAN WHO’D HAVE NONE OF NOTRE DAME CONGREGATION THOUGH AS BROTHERS THEY LOVED ONE ANOTHER FROLLO WATCHED IN DESPAIR AND ALARM AS JEHAN WHO GREW WILD AND DEFIED AND DEFILED ALL THE LAWS THE LAWS OF NOTRE DAME (Jehan now has a bottle of liquor and has arrived back at the cathedral, late at night). FROLLO: Jehan, Where have you been? Why weren’t you in evening mass? JEHAN: It’s your birthday today! We must celebrate! I brought you a gift — she’s a friend of mine. (He reveals FLORIKA). FROLLO: A gypsy girl in our room? JEHAN: Florika – she is a beauty, isn’t she? This is my brother, Claude. FLORIKA: Happy birthday…Claude. Don’t be shy. I can see you want to. I can see it in your eyes. Ha-ha! I can feel it, too!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: Stop! FATHER DUPIN: Claude? JEHAN: It’s Father Dupin! Help me hide her! (Within the CONGREGATION acting as a stone wall, they hide her. FATHER DUPIN hides her) FATHER DUPIN: What is going on in here? JEHAN: Nothing, Father! FATHER DUPIN: Is it nothing, Claude? FROLLO: Tell him, Jehan. If you won’t, I will! (Pulls FLORIKA out of the hiding place and throws her to the floor). CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON FATHER DUPIN: YOU MUST LEAVE, JEHAN, THIS HOLY REFUGE WHERE YOU’VE DWELLED. JEHAN: Leave? But Father— FATHER DUPIN: SORRY CLAUDE, BUT I’VE NO CHOICE YOUR BROTHER IS EXPELLED FROLLO: Jehan… JEHAN: What did you think? That they wouldn’t send me away? Who do you think these people are? FROLLO: These people have given us a home and comfort and safety! JEHAN: Comfort?! You call this comfort? You call this safety? Well, you can have it! You’re welcome to it. JEHAN AND FLORIKA: And Jehan and the girl left. (They exit) CONGREGATION: And Frollo didn’t hear from his brother for several years. Meanwhile… FROLLO ASCENDED UNCOMMONLY FAST THROUGH THE RANKS THE RANKS OF NOTRE DAME TILL HE WAS NAMED THE ARCHDEACON AT LAST

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME AND GAVE THANKS TO NOTRE DAME AND THEN ONE AWFUL DAY GOT A MESSAGE FROLLO: AND THE NAME THAT IT BORE WAS “JEHAN” CONGREGATION: AND CONCEALING HIS FACE FROLLO STOLE TO A PLACE FAR AWAY…AWAY FROM NOTRE DAME FROLLO: I’m Father Claude Frollo. I was told to come to this place. WOMAN: Oh, we’ve heard about you. JEHAN: (laying in a bed and dying) Hello, brother dear. FROLLO: Jehan! Oh, thank God! Where have you been? JEHAN: I’ve been traveling…hounded from city to city with my beautiful Florika. FROLLO: The gypsy girl—you’re with her? JEHAN: She died three months ago—from the pox. It was a terrible thing to watch her suffer. FROLLO: Jehan, let me take you back. I’ll bring you home. (He holds him in his arms). FROLLO: BROTHER DEAREST, COME WITH ME WHERE WE WILL FIND A REMEDY AND NOTRE DAME ONCE MORE WILL BE YOUR SANCTUARY HEALING YOU WILL BE MY GOAL NOT JUST YOUR BODY, BUT YOUR SOUL WE’LL BE TOGETHER IN OUR HOLY SANCTUARY JEHAN: Enough, Claude! Enough of your pieties! It’s too late for me anyway. But if you have truly discovered charity at this late date, there is someone you can help. (A member of the CONGREGATION hands FROLLO a baby wrapped in a blanket). FROLLO: A baby? Yours? A…a monster! It’s God’s judgement on you! The wicked shall not go unpunished! JEHAN: I should have known! I was a fool to think you’d look after him!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: Look after him? Me? JEHAN: He has no one else! FROLLO: But he’s a gypsy child! JEHAN:…And mine. Take him…if you can find it in your heart. (Dies). FROLLO: Jehan? Jehan?! (He rushes into the night with the baby). CHORUS: DIES IRAE DIES ILLA SOLVET SAECLUM IN FAVILLA (FROLLO runs to the front of the stage and raises the baby, ready to throw it into the abyss). CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON CONGREGATION: AND THE SAINTS REGARDED FROLLO FROM THEIR STONE FACADE CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON AND HE FELT THEIR GAZE AS IF IT WERE THE EYES OF GOD FROLLO: Oh Lord, you’ve sent me a test. This child is my cross to bear. I may not have saved my brother, but I will save this…thing. But a monster like this must be kept hidden. FROLLO: SEE THIS LONESOME CREATURE FROM WHOM LESSER MEN WOULD FLEE I WILL KEEP AND CARE FOR HIM AND TEACH HIM AT MY KNEE TO THINK LIKE ME CONGREGATION: And Frollo gave the child a name. A cruel name that means half-formed… FROLLO: Quasimodo!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CLOPIN: NOW HERE IS A RIDDLE TO GUESS IF YOU CAN SING THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME (QUASIMODO enters in common attire) QUASIMODO: WHAT MAKES A MONSTER AND WHAT MAKES A MAN? (During this, he smears paint on his face to give the illusion of a deformity and the actor transforms into the hunchback. His tunic is placed on him as well.) ALL: SING THE BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: Up! (He points to the bells). (The bells ring. QUASIMODO swings from the bells, and speaks over their chiming.) QUASIMODO: Oh Marie! You’re in very good voice today! Jacqueline, we need to fix your clapper! C’mon, Gabriel! Pour your flood of sound into the square! Oh, it’s a holiday! Sing, my bells! Sing till you are all quite out of breath! (Distant sound of birds chirping. QUASIMODO goes to them.) QUASIMODO: Ah, morning, my little birdies! (The GARGOYLES are members of the CONGREGATION, but have small chimes and bells that they ring when they speak). GARGOYLE: Don’t you wish you could be like those birds and just fly away? QUASIMODO: Ooh, me? No. No! GARGOYLE: But how beautiful it must be out there! QUASIMODO: Ah, no. No. Not for me. GARGOYLES: Why not? QUASIMODO: It’s too dangerous!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME GARGOYLE: The boy is right. Don’t encourage him! GARGOYLES: Why shouldn’t we? CONGREGATION: For Quasimodo, the cathedral was not only his home, but his universe. It was people with figures of marble; with kings and saints, monsters and demons. The saints blessed him, and the monsters protected him! QUASIMODO: Today…is the Feast of Fools! GARGOYLES: YEAH! YAY! GARGOYLE: Quasimodo, why don’t you try going down there? QUASIMODO: You know I’ve never gone outside. GARGOYLE: You can leave any time you want! GARGOYLE: Master won’t allow it! QUASIMODO: No, last year, he said “Someday, maybe.”. GARGOYLE: He always says “Someday.” Never today! GARGOYLE: Besides, you shouldn’t have to ask for permission to go outside! Just put one foot in front of the other! GARGOYLES: And sneak out! QUASIMODO: I can’t! (FROLLO enters carrying a basket with two cups and bread). FROLLO: Quasimodo? (He taps him on the shoulder). Good morning, Quasimodo. QUASIMODO: (At the sight of his master, he scrunches up, and looks up toward FROLLO). Morning, master. FROLLO: Were you talking to someone? QUASIMODO: No! Just…my friends. FROLLO: Mhm, your friends. And what are your friends made of? QUASIMODO: Stone.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: And can stone talk back? QUASIMODO: No! (slaps his hand.) FROLLO: That’s right. What kind of conversation is that? It takes two people to communicate, my boy. And who is that other person for you? QUASIMODO: You. You, Master. FROLLO: Right, again. (Frollo presents bread and wine to QUASIMODO) Corpus christi (the body of Christ). QUASIMODO: Amen. FROLLO: Sanctus christi (the blood of Christ). QUASIMODO: Amen. FROLLO: In nominee patri, fill et spiritu sancta (In the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit). I brought you a special treat today. Strawberry? (QUASIMODO goes to grab one from him.) FROLLO: Ah! Ah! (Smacks him away) Self-control, Quasimodo. It’s important to master the art. (QUASIMODO tentatively takes the strawberry and puts it in his mouth.) FROLLO: And of manners, too! QUASIMODO: (spits it out) Thank you, master. (FROLLO gestures to him that it is okay to eat it. QUASIMODO immediately devours it). FROLLO: Now shall we tell today’s story? QUASIMODO: Yes! Yes! FROLLO: Stories from our home’s beautiful statues! And we were up to…? QUASIMODO: Flight into Egypt! FROLLO: That’s right. What do you remember about that story? QUASIMODO:…Joseph fled into Egypt. FROLLO: (laughs) Yes, he did. With his wife, Mary, and…?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME QUASIMODO: Baby Jesus! FROLLO: That’s right now, who hid them? Who protected them? QUASIMODO: Saint Aphro- (he keeps trying to pronounce the name.) FROLLO: (laughs, but speaks clearly) Aphrodisius. Saint Aphrodisius. As I have hidden and protected you. (Nearby horns are heard) FROLLO: Oh, ugh. Well I suppose I must stop stalling. (Goes to look down upon the square in disgust) Look at them down there, like horrible vermin! Scuttling about. And all to see the gypsies sing and dance. QUASIMODO: Gypsies? You told me gypsies not allowed to sing, dance. FROLLO: They aren’t except on this one day: The Feast of Fools. QUASIMODO: Feast of Fools. FROLLO: It’ll be the last time if I have anything to say about it. QUASIMODO: Last time? FROLLO: I petitioned the king to stop next year’s festival. QUASIMODO: But then, I can never go.

3. SANCTUARY

(Frollo)

FROLLO: Why our king allows the gypsies here in the first place is beyond me. THROUGH BORDERS POROUS AS A SIEVE WE LET THEM COME AND LET THEM LIVE IT’S ALMOST AS IF THEY WERE GIVEN SANCTUARY HOW IT FILLS ME WITH DISGUST TO WALK AMONGST THEM YET I MUST I LOATH TO LEAVE YOU AND OUR TRUSTY SANCTUARY QUASIMODO: What if I came with you? I’m strong, I could protect you.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: You protect me? QUASIMODO: Like Saint Aphro- (tries to pronounce it again) FROLLO: (laughs at Quasimodo) Aphrodisius.

3A. SANCTUARY II

(Frollo and Quasimodo)

I’m sorry, my boy. I don't mean to laugh at you. But the truth is, that’s what others will do. And worse. THE WORLD IS CRUEL THE WORLD IS WICKED IT’S I ALONE WHOM YOU CAN TRUST IN THIS WHOLE CITY I AM YOUR ONLY FRIEND I WHO KEEP YOU, FEED YOU TEACH YOU, DRESS YOU I WHO LOOK UPON YOU WITHOUT FEAR HOW CAN I PROTECT YOU, BOY UNLESS YOU ALWAYS STAY IN HERE AWAY IN HERE? FROLLO: Now, remember what I’ve taught you, Quasimodo. YOU ARE DEFORMED QUASIMODO: I AM DEFORMED FROLLO: AND YOU ARE UGLY QUASIMODO: AND I AM UGLY FROLLO: AND THESE ARE CRIMES FOR WHICH THE WORLD SHOWS LITTLE PITY YOU DO NOT COMPREHEND QUASIMODO: YOU ARE MY DEFENDER

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: OUT THERE THEY’LL REVILE YOU AS A MONSTER QUASIMODO: I AM MONSTER FROLLO: OUT THERE THEY WILL HATE AND SCORN AND JEER QUASIMODO: ONLY A MONSTER FROLLO: WHY INVITE THEIR CURSES AND THEIR CONSTERNATION? STAY IN HERE BE FAITHFUL TO ME QUASIMODO: I’M FAITHFUL FROLLO: BE GRATEFUL TO ME QUASIMODO: I’M GRATEFUL FROLLO: DO AS I SAY OBEY BOTH: AND STAY IN HERE FROLLO: Remember Quasimodo, this is your sanctuary. (He exits).

4. OUT THERE

(Quasimodo)

QUASIMODO: My sanctuary. SAFE BEHIND THESE WINDOWS AND THESE PARAPETS OF STONE GAZING AT THE PEOPLE DOWN BELOW ME ALL MY LIFE I WATCH THEM AS I HIDE UP HERE ALONE

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME HUNGRY FOR THE HISTORIES THEY SHOW ME ALL MY LIFE I MEMORIZE THEIR FACES KNOWING THEM AS THEY WILL NEVER KNOW ME ALL MY LIFE I WONDER HOW IT FEELS TO PASS A DAY NOT ABOVE THEM BUT PART OF THEM AND OUT THERE LIVING IN THE SUN GIVE ME ONE DAY OUT THERE ALL I ASK IS ONE TO HOLD FOREVER OUT THERE WHERE THEY ALL LIVE UNAWARE WHAT I’D GIVE WHAT I’D DARE JUST TO LIVE ONE DAY OUT THERE OUT THERE AMONG THE MILLERS AND THE WEAVERS AND THEIR WIVES THROUGH THE ROOFS AND GABLES I CAN SEE THEM EVERYDAY THEY SHOUT AND SCOLD AND GO ABOUT THEIR LIVES HEEDLESS OF THE GIFT IT IS TO BE THEM IF I WERE IN THEIR SKIN I’D TREASURE EVERY INSTANT OUT THERE STROLLING BY THE SEINE TASTE A MORNING OUT THERE LIKE ORDINARY MEN WHO FREELY WALK ABOUT THERE JUST ONE DAY AND THEN I SWEAR I’LL BE CONTENT WITH MY SHARE

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME WON’T RESENT WON’T DESPAIR OLD AND BENT I WONT CARE I’LL HAVE SPENT ONE DAY OUT THERE

5. TOPSY TURVY

(Clopin, Quasimodo and Company)

(The CONGREGATES become TOWNSPEOPLE and bring on the flags and the stage for the Feast of Fools). ALL: COME ONE, COME ALL LEAVE YOUR LOOMS AND MILKING STOOLS COOP THE HENS AND PEN THE MULES COME ONE, COME ALL CLOSE THE CHURCHES AND THE SCHOOLS IT’S THE DAY FOR BREAKING RULES COME AND JOIN THE FEAST OF… FOOLS! QUASIMODO: OUT HERE! ALL: SO EXCITING COLORS, CROWDS AND SMELLS
 QUASIMODO: OUT HERE! ALL: WHERE THIS PLACE IS NOISY AS THE BELLS! QUASIMODO: SOMEHOW, I CAN WANDER THROUGH THIS HELTER-SKELTER WITHOUT FEAR NOW NO ONE SEES I’M HERE NOW OUT HERE IN THE WORLD! CONGREGATION: As Quasimodo turned into the square, he saw before him a ragged beggar who approached a haughty-looking gentleman. CLOPIN: (disguised as beggar goes up to gentleman and picks his pocket) Take pity, whatever you can spare!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME GYPSY: First purse of the day! (CLOPIN takes off his disguise). CLOPIN: And plenty more to come! Clopin Trouillefou, ladies and gents! GYPSIES: King of the Gypsies! CLOPIN: Wild boar among domestic swine. Gypsies, let’s get to work! (Members of the CONGREGATION become GYPSIES). ONCE A YEAR WE THROW A PARTY HERE IN TOWN ONCE A YEAR WE TURN ALL PARIS UPSIDE DOWN EVERY MAN’S A KING AND EVERY KING’S A CLOWN ONCE AGAIN IT’S TOPSY TURVY DAY IT’S THE DAY THE DEVIL IN US GETS RELEASED IT’S THE DAY WE MOCK THE PRIG AND SHOCK THE PRIEST EVERYTHING IS TOPSY TURVY AT THE FEAST OF FOOLS, HA! ALL: TOPSY TURVY CLOPIN: BEAT THE DRUMS AND BLOW THE TRUMPETS ALL: TOPSY TURVY JOIN THE BUMS AND THIEVES AND STRUMPETS STREAMING IN FROM CHARTRES TO CALAIS CLOPIN: SCURVY KNAVES ARE EXTRA SCURVY ON THE 6TH OF JANU-ERVY ALL: ALL BECAUSE IT’S TOPSY TURVY DAY (Dance break, which eventually QUASIMODO joins.) (At this point, CAPTAIN PHOEBUS enters in military garb). PHOEBUS: Into this crowd stood a young cavalier. Captain Phoebus de Martin, at your service.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CONGREGATION: Whose dashing manner and bold swagger could not but conceal a haunted look in his eyes. PHOEBUS: New to Paris, just back from the front. CONGREGATION GIRL: One of those handsome fellows that all the girls take a liking. PHOEBUS: Thank you, ladies. Might one of you enjoy showing me around? GIRL: Oh, Captain, we’re not those kinds of girls.

6. REST AND RECREATION

(Phoebus and Congregation)

PHOEBUS: I like all kinds of girls. FOUR YEARS AT THE FRONT GIVE A MAN A ZEST FOR A LITTLE REST AND RECREATION FOR THE CHANCE TO HUNT FOR THE SPICIEST IN THE WAY OF REST AND RECREATION GIVE ME YOUR GIRLS OF PLEASURE YOUR GRAPES OF MERLOT SHOW ME YOU WARES AND MEASURE ONE LARGE SAMPLE SAMPLE THEM AT MY LEISURE THIS THREE DAY FURLOUGH SHOULD BE AMPLE I HAVE BORE THE BRUNT OF A SOLDIER’S TEST. NOW I’VE MADE MY WAY TO WHERE I GET TO PLAY AND REST AND RECREA(CLOPIN enters and attempts to pick PHOEBUS’s pocket. He notices and points his sword at CLOPIN’s neck). PHOEBUS: You’re quick, but I’m quicker.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CLOPIN: (laughs) I don’t want any trouble. PHOEBUS: Nor do I, believe me. (CLOPIN staggers away and the action is frozen. PHOEBUS is taken back to war times). FOUR YEARS AT THE FRONT FOUR YEARS AT THE FRONT CONGREGATION MEN: CANNON FODDER LYING IN THE FILL BELOW THE CASTLE. IS THIS THE THIRD WEEK OR THE FOURTH WEEK OF THE SIEGE? THE AIR FILLED WITH THE STENCH OF BODIES IN A TRENCH WHOEVER PAYS THE MOST I CALL MY LIEGE SUMMONED HERE TO PARIS NOW, I’M FAR AWAY FROM BATTLE THE CLOTTING BLOOD AND ROTTING WOUNDS OF DEAD AND DYING MEN PHOEBUS AND MEN: AND WHATEVER I DO. I’LL MAKE SURE THIS IS TRUE. PHOEBUS: I WILL NEVER GO BACK AGAIN. (He snaps back to reality) DARLING, TO BE BLUNT YOU ARE WITH THE BEST THAT’S WHY I‘VE BEEN BLESSED WITH THIS PROMOTION I’VE BEEN WORKING HARD NOW I’M GONNA BE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD AIN’T THAT A NOTION? LIKE OTHER TRUE KNIGHTS I’VE GOT AMBITION BUT FOR A FEW NIGHTS FUN IS MY MISSION SO WHAT DO YOU SAY? YOU CARE TO SHARE A DAY? OF REST AND RECREATION! (A GYPSY man runs on stage, having been chases by a NOBLEMAN. PHOEBUS captures him). NOBLE: Come back here!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME PHOEBUS: Hold on. What’s your rush? GYPSY: I did nothing wrong! PHOEBUS: No? Then why run from it so fast? GYPSY: Take pity. I’m just a poor fellow! PHOEBUS: Than a pity you’d be as well placed as a feather in a pig’s ass! FROLLO: My goodness, sir! PHOEBUS: Beg pardon, your grace. NOBLE: This gypsy picked my pocket! FROLLO: Search him, Lieutenant. FREDERIC: Nothing, sir. NOBLE: They work in pairs. I couldn’t catch the other one. FROLLO: Arrest him. PHOEBUS: On what charge? FROLLO: Plying his trade! If it were up to me, he wouldn’t be allowed on the streets at all. He’d be hunted for sport like the gypsy dog he is. Take him away. PHOEBUS: Archdeacon Frollo? I’m Captain Phoebus de Martin. FROLLO: (finally notices him) Oh, Captain! Only just arrived and you all ready catch your first criminal. You waste no time. Welcome to the Cathedral Guard. PHOEBUS: I’m grateful for the opportunity to serve you. (He attempts to kiss FROLLO’s hand, who lowers it ever so slightly).

6A. REST AND RECREATION II

(Frollo and Phoebus)

FROLLO: Glad to hear it. Your early arrival is most auspicious. The pestilence of these gypsies grows more dangerous every day. CAPTAIN YOU AND I HAVE A TASK WE SHARE

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME STOPPING THEM AND THEIR PROLIFERATION PARIS LOOKS TO US PHOEBUS: …TO US FROLLO: TO RID HER STREETS OF CRIME PHOEBUS: …TO RID HER STREETS OF CRIME FROLLO: THIS IS WAR AND THUS… BOTH: THERE IS NO TIME… FOR REST AND RECREATION

6B. TOPSY TURVY II

(Clopin and Company)

(The TOWNSPEOPLE gather in the streets and set up the stage, as a woman enters, robed). ALL: COME ONE, COME ALL CLOPIN: HURRY, HURRY HERE’S YOUR CHANCE SEE THE MYSTERY AND ROMANCE ALL: COME ONE, COME ALL CLOPIN: SEE THE FINEST GIRL IN FRANCE MAKE AN ENTRANCE TO ENTRANCE DANCE LA ESMERELDA…! DANCE! (ESMERELDA is revealed and she dances. The crowd claps and cheers)

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME 7. RHYTHM OF THE TAMBOURINE

(Esmerelda)

ESMERELDA: HEY, SOLDIER BOY I SEE HOW YOU STARE HEY, BUTCHER MAN I SEE YOU ADMIRE COME GATHER ‘ROUND HEY JACQUES AND PIERRE COME SEE ME DANCE TO THE RYTHM OF THE TAMBOURINE FLASH OF AN ANKLE FLIP OF A SKIRT FEEL THEM EXCITE AND FLAME AND INSPIRE COME SEE ME DANCE HEY WHAT CAN IT HURT IT’S JUST A DANCE TO THE RHYTHM OF THE TAMBOURINE (ESMERELDA dances and tosses FROLLO one of her scarves. FROLLO, PHOEBUS, and QUASIMODO are mesmerized by this gypsy dancer.) PHOEBUS: THIS GIRL, WHO IS SHE? QUASIMODO: THIS GIRL, WHO IS SHE? FROLLO: SHE DANCES LIKE A DEVIL… PHOEBUS: SHE DANCES LIKE AN ANGEL… QUASIMODO: AN ANGEL… PHOEBUS: SHE DANCES LIKE FIRE… FROLLO: SUCH FIRE…

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ALL: WHO IS SHE? ESMERELDA: COME ON PARIS! BEFORE WE GET OLD COME FEEL THE HEAT COME TASTE THE DESIRE FEEL THEM WITHIN YOU CRIMSON AND GOLD GOLD LIKE THE COINS YOU WILL TOSS INTO MY TAMBOURINE WHEN I DANCE TO THE RHYTHM OF THE TAMBOURINE (Her act has ended. Cheers from the townspeople) CLOPIN (pulls her aside): WELCOME TO PARIS, ESMERELDA AS I WAS TOLD YOU COME WITH USEFUL TOOLS (taking her tambourine full of coins) YOU’LL THRIVE IN PARIS, ESMERELDA LONG AS YOU LEARN TO FOLLOW OUR RULES (hands her one coin and attempts to take the rest) ESMERELDA: (taking her money back) I’m afraid I’ve never been good at following rules, Monsieur. CLOPIN: So I’ve heard. Just stay out of trouble, otherwise you’ll find yourself on the way to the next town. GYPSY: We’re ready. CLOPIN: Make yourself useful and line up the men. Now, ladies and gentlemen, the Peace de Resistance!

8. TOPSY TURVY III

(Clopin and Company)

HERE IT IS, THE MOMENT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR HERE IT IS, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT’S IN STORE NOW’S THE TIME WE LAUGH UNTIL OUR SIDES GET SORE NOW’S THE TIME WE CROWN

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ALL: THE KING OF FOOLS CLOPIN: You remember last year’s king! CLOPIN: SO MAKE A FACE THAT’S HORRIBLE AND FRIGHTENING MAKE A FACE AS GRUESOME AS A GARGOYLE’S WING FOR THE FACE THAT’S UGLIEST WILL BE THE KING OF FOOLS WHY? ALL: TOPSY TURVY! CLOPIN: UGLY FOLKS, FORGET YOUR SHYNESS ALL: TOPSY TURVY CLOPIN: YOU COULD SOON BE CALLED, ‘YOUR HIGHNESS’ ALL: PUT THE FOULEST FEATURES ON DISPLAY BE THE KING OF TOPSY TURVY DAY ESMERELDA: (sees QUASIMODO hiding behind the stage) Hey, aren't you gonna join in the competition. (Takes off QUASIMODO’s hood and is startled by his face). My God! ALL: TOPSY TURVY ESMERELDA: Wouldn’t you like to be crowded king for a day? ALL: TOPSY TURVY ESMERELDA: Why not? Take advantage of what you’ve got. ALL: TOPSY TURVY

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (She leads QUASIMODO to the stage, and he puts his face through the scenery. Gasps from the crowd.) TOWNSPERSON: He’s hideous! TOWNSPERSON: Is that a mask? TOWNSPERSON: It’s his face! TOWNSPERSON: Who is that?! TOWNSPERSON: It must the hunchback! TOWNSPERSON: From the bell tower! TOWNSPEOPLE: Archdeacon Frollo’s pet/No wonder he keeps him hidden/His secret friend! (FROLLO is humiliated now. Laughs from crowd.)

8A. TOPSY TURVY IV

(Clopin and Company)

CLOPIN: Ladies and gentlemen! We’ve asked for the ugliest face in Paris, and we’ve found him! Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame! (uncomfortably) EVERYBODY… ALL: ONCE A YEAR WE THROW A PARTY HERE IN TOWN CLOPIN: HAIL TO THE KING ALL: ONCE A YEAR WE TURN ALL PARIS UPSIDE DOWN CLOPIN: OH, WHAT A KING! ALL: ONCE A YEAR

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME THE UGLIEST WILL WEAR A CROWN CLOPIN: Girls, give a kiss. ALL: ONCE A YEAR ON TOPSY TURVY DAY! CLOPIN: WE’VE NEVER HAD KING LIKE THIS! (He leaves the stage, giving ESMERELDA a look) ALL: IT’S THE DAY WE DO THE THINGS THAT WE DEPLORE ON THE OTHER THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR ONCE A YEAR WE LOVE TO DROP IN WHERE THE BEER IS NEVER STOPPIN’ FOR THE CHANCE TO POP SOME POPINJAY AND PICK A KING WHO’LL PUT THE TOP IN TOPSY TURVY DAY, TOPSY TURVY MAD AND CRAZY UPSY-DAISY TOPSY TURVY DAY, HEY! TOWNSPERSON: (carrying a tomato) You think he’s ugly now? Well, watch this! (He throws it at QUASIMODO’s face and laughs). Now, that’s ugly! TOWNSPERSON: Hail to the King! (mock bows) TOWNSPERSON: Long live the King! (throws food) TOWNSPERSON: Bon appetite (throws food) CONGREGATION: The crowd had never done this before. Not in all the years of the Feast of Fools, but they had never seen a creature so horrible! And it drove them wild! (The crowd springs onto QUASIMODO, while FROLLO watches in disgust. They strip him of his cape and hit him over the head. Then, they dunk his face into a bucket of water). TOWNSPERSON: Tie him down!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (They grab ropes and attempt to tie QUASIMODO down. He hurls one of them off of the stage. At last, they have him pinned down and begin to whip him.) QUASIMODO: (seeing FROLLO) Master, help me! PHOEBUS: Permission to stop this cruelty, your grace. FROLLO: Not just yet, Captain, a lesson needs to be learned here. ESMERELDA: (seeing the cruelty) Stop, please! No! CLOPIN: (trying to stop her) What are you doing? Are you crazy?! I’m warning you, Esmerelda! ESMERELDA: (breaking away from CLOPIN to the front of the stage) No! STOP! (The townspeople break away from QUASIMODO and let go of their ropes. QUASIMODO starts to cry). ESMERELDA: I’m so sorry. (She rushes to him, and he turns away thinking she will hurt him). ESMERELDA: No, please, don’t be afraid. QUASIMODO: Wat— water. (She gives him water). QUASIMODO: …Thank you. (ESMERELDA takes a handkerchief out and wipes QUASIMODO’s face, who whimpers). ESMERELDA: Shhh. (She takes out a knife, and cuts him free from the ropes). Go! Please! (Quasimodo rushes to the side) TOWNSPERSON: What are you doing?! You’re ruining all our fun! TOWNSPEOPLE: Yeah!/You Gypsy whore!/Gypsy whore! CLOPIN: (rushes to ESMERELDA) I warned you, didn’t I?! (With a flash and puff of smoke, the two disappear). FROLLO: Witchcraft!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME TOWNSPERSON: (sees QUASIMODO) There he is! Get him! FROLLO: Stop this at once! We must show kindness to this…creature! As our savior did when he healed the Lepers. Time to go home. The performance is over! PHOEBUS: (shouting at the people) He said to go!

8B. SANCUTARY IV

(Frollo and Quasimodo)

(The crowd disperses. They hiss and spit at QUASIMODO, who goes to his master. FROLLO backs away). FROLLO: SEE HOW ITS CRUEL? SEE HOW ITS WICKED? SEE HOW I’VE SHELTERED YOU FROM HAVING TO GO THROUGH THIS? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? QUASIMODO: Forgive, master. Won’t ever leave again… FROLLO: NOW BOY, YOU SEE YOU DON’T BELONG WITH NORMAL MEN YOU ARE HAPPY WHEN YOU’RE IN YOUR SANCTUARY QUASIMODO: SANCTUARY… FROLLO: YOUR SANCTUARY BOTH: NEVER TO COME OUT HERE… QUASIMODO: HERE… FROLLO: AGAIN. FROLLO: (to PHOEBUS) Take the boy inside.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (PHOEBUS goes to grab QUASIMODO’s arm, who pushes him away and enters the cathedral. FROLLO sees ESMERELDA’s scarf laying on the ground. He picks it up and exits the stage. Who is this girl? he thinks).

9A. BELLS OF NOTRE DAME II

(Congregation and Esmerelda)

CONGREGATION: SO THE POOR HUNCHBACK RETREATED BACK IN THROUGH THE DOORS OF NOTRE DAME AND THERE FOLLOWED THE GYPSY GIRL WHO’D NEVER BEEN THROUGH THE DOORS OF NOTRE DAME AND SHE STOPPED AND BEHELD ALL THE BEAUTY LIKE A BEGGAR RECEIVING AN ALMS AND EACH WINDOW AND PILLAR AND ARCH SEEMED TO FILL HER WITH LIGHT ESMERELDA: THE LIGHT OF NOTRE DAME (She is amazed by the beauty. FROLLO enters the cathedral and sees her and hides her scarf.) FROLLO: So a gypsy dares to enter this holy place? ESMERELDA: Why not? FROLLO: Because your kind aren’t allowed here. ESMERELDA: (upset) Why do you hate us so much? What did we ever do to you?! FROLLO: More than you know…What are you doing in here? ESMERELDA: I came here to find that boy. It was my fault he was up on the stage in the first place. FROLLO: The boy doesn’t need your help. He’s my charge. God loves even a monster. ESMERELDA: He’s no less human than the rest of us. FROLLO: Some of us are less human. In the moral sense.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ESMERELDA: (knowingly) Do you mean me? FROLLO: You dance in public without shame or modesty. ESMERELDA: I dance because I enjoy it (smiles). Others enjoy it, too, and give me money. FROLLO: As they would a woman of your repute. Do you also deny possessing black magic? ESMERELDA: If I had the power of magic, why wouldn’t I use it to help myself and my people?! FROLLO: (beat) You’re clever. You twist the truth just as you twist your body and dance. ESMERELDA: Your grace, there must be some charity inside you. If you’ve helped that boy, then surely you can extend that kindness to others almost as unfortunate. How you would wish others to treat you, could you not treat them? FROLLO: Our Lord Jesus said something very similar. (He walks toward her and she backs away). (The bells ring for midnight mass.) FROLLO: You see him on the cross there, gazing down on us? (He hears the choir) Midnight mass is starting. I must go. My child, though your people are lost, maybe something within you can be saved. Stay. Perhaps you’ll see what true beauty is and we….We can continue this conversation afterwards. (He leaves).

10. GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS

(Esmerelda and Congregation)

ESMERELDA (looking toward the cross): I DON’T KNOW IF YOU CAN HEAR ME OR IF YOU’RE EVEN THERE I DON’T KNOW IF YOU WOULD LISTEN TO A GYPSY’S PRAYER YES, I KNOW I’M JUST AN OUTCAST I SHOULDN’T SPEAK TO YOU STILL I SEE YOUR FACE AND WONDER WERE YOU ONCE AN OUTCAST TOO GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS HUNGRY FROM BIRTH SHOW THEM THE MERCY THEY DON’T FIND ON EARTH GOD HELP MY PEOPLE THEY LOOK TO YOU STILL

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS OR NOBODY WILL CONGREGATION: I ASK FOR WEALTH I ASK FOR FAME I ASK FOR GLORY TO SHINE ON MY NAME I ASK FOR LOVE I CAN POSSESS I ASK FOR GOD AND HIS ANGELS TO BLESS ME ESMERELDA: I ASK FOR NOTHING I CAN GET BY I KNOW SO MANY LESS LUCKY THAN I PLEASE HELP MY PEOPLE THE POOR AND DOWN-TROD I THOUGHT WE ALL WERE THE CHILDREN OF GOD GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS CHILDREN OF GOD… CHILDREN OF GOD (PHOEBUS and QUASIMODO have been watching this and PHOEBUS steps out toward her. FREDERIC tries to capture her, but he is stopped and exits). PHOEBUS: It’s all right. I’ll take care of it. (To ESMERELDA). I thought you disappeared in a puff of smoke. ESMERELDA: Don’t believe everything you see. (She rushes toward him). PHOEBUS: Where do you think you’re going? (She pulls her knife out and places it in front of his neck). PHOEBUS: Calm down…Give me a chance to apologize. ESMERELDA: For what? PHOEBUS: For this. (He grabs her arm and knocks the knife out of her hand) Still, I am impressed. You fight almost as well as a man. ESMERELDA: Funny…I was going to say the same thing about you! (She elbows him in the chest and grabs her knife back).

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME PHOEBUS: Look, it’s my job to protect this cathedral. ESMERELDA: From dirty gypsies like me. PHOEBUS: You said it, I didn’t. But I do have my orders to follow. ESMERELDA: And if there’s one thing a good soldier knows, it’s how to follow orders. PHOEBUS: (shaking his head) Who said anything about my being a good soldier? ESMERELDA: Are you saying you’re not? PHOEBUS: I’m saying I have a job to do. It’s much better than the one it got me out of. ESMERELDA: Burying your comrades in unmarked graves?…You can look at me, you know. We don’t all cast spells. PHOEBUS: I know that…Where are you from anyway? ESMERELDA: (laughs) Oh, you’re asking a gypsy? (He nods). ESMERELDA: (Her expression changes) All I know is that I come from nothing. Just like you.

10B. OUT THERE II

(Congregation)

(At this moment, QUASIMODO moves and makes a noise. ESMERELDA hears him and rushes up through the cathedral). PHOEBUS: Now where are you going?! ESMERELDA: To see that boy! PHOEBUS: Why can’t you just mind your own business? ESMERELDA: It has to be somebody’s business (calling after him) Hello?! Are you up there?! (Phoebus exits) CONGREGATION: QUASIMODO, QUICK YOU’VE GOT TO HIDE YOU’VE GOT TO RUN

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME QUASIMODO! MUSTN’T LET HER FIND YOU QUASIMODO: Oh, no, mustn’t! CONGREGATION: FIND A PLACE AND QUICKLY SO SHE CAN’T SEE WHERE YOU’VE GONE HERE SHE COMES! I THINK SHE’S RIGHT BEHIND YOU! QUASIMODO: Oh, have to hide! CONGREGATION: THIS WAY! OVER THERE! CLIMB UP HERE! ESMERELDA: Hello?! CONGREGATION: THIS WAY! FIND A PLACE… TOO LATE! (the GARGOYLES freeze in position) ESMERELDA: (enters, sees him hiding) Please don't be afraid. I’m so sorry about what happened to you. (looks around) Oh, what an amazing place. Are you alone up here? Are you-.. Hello? Can you hear me? (She reaches out to QUASIMODO, and he turns to her). ESMERELDA: You can’t hear me can you? QUASIMODO: The bells. But I can still hear a little and read lips. ESMERELDA: (speaks clearer) Well, I thought I heard you when I came up here. QUASIMODO: Oh no, not me. Gargoyles…(Gestures to them, but they are gone). ESMERELDA: Gargoyles? Oh, they talk to you?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME QUASIMODO: Everything talks to me. Wind, a bird, a tree, the bells: my friends. (Turns on himself) No, that’s stupid! ESMERELDA: No, no it’s not! I like your friends. Have you lived here a long time? QUASIMODO: Whole life. ESMERELDA: Really? Well, it seems like a wonderful place to live.

12. TOP OF THE WORLD

(Esmerelda, Quasimodo and Congregation)

QUASIMODO: Yes. But in winter…cold. Can see everything from up here. City gates, river Seine. ESMERELDA: Oh yes. It sparkles in the light. (She climbs up on the balcony ledge to see clearer) Small problem…I’m afraid of heights. (She teeters and QUASIMODO pulls her off of the ledge). ESMERELDA: Thank you. You’re very strong. QUASIMODO: Yes, I am. ESMERELDA: Still, I’m glad I can get to see things down there. GAZING DOWN FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD SUDDENLY SEEING A DIFFERENT CITY THINGS LOOK TINY AND FRIENDLY AND FAIR SEEN FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD WHEN YOU LOOK FROM HIGH ABOVE EVERYTHING SEEMS PRETTY SEEING LIFE FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD NOTHING NEEDS FIGHTING AND NO ONE NEEDS PITY THANKS FOR GIVING THIS MOMENT TO ME WHEN JUST FOR A MOMENT THINGS STOP HERE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD CONGREGATION: FOR ALL THESE YEARS

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME YOU’VE STAYED ALONE AND FREE FROM DANGER WE’VE SHARED YOUR FEARS IT WASN’T SAFE TO TRUST A STRANGER BUT MAYBE WE WERE WRONG HERE COULD SHE BELONG HERE? THIS GIRL APPEARS (QUASIMODO climbs onto the balcony and pretends to AND SHE IS KIND lose his balance. ESMERELDA is scared by this, and he AND WE’RE ADMITTING smiles at her. They both laugh.) WE’D GIVE THREE CHEERS TO SEE YOU BOTH FOREVER SITTING LOOK AT YOU SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD ESMERELDA: SEEING LIFE FROM (QUASIMODO walks along the edge of the balcony and THE TOP OF THE WORLD the GARGOYLES guide him along the way.) NOTHING NEED FIGHTING AND NO ONE NEEDS PITY THANKS FOR GIVING THIS MOMENT TO ME WHEN JUST FOR A MOMENT THINGS STOP HERE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD CONGREGATION: THIS GIRL APPEARS AND SHE IS KIND AND WE’RE ADMITTING WE’D GIVE THREE CHEERS TO SEE YOU BOTH FOREVER SITTING LOOK AT YOU SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD QUASIMODO, SAY SOMETHING TAKE OUR ADVISE BE BRAVE AND SAY SOMETHING PLEASE DON’T THINK TWICE QUASIMODO SAY SOME— QUASIMODO: (shuts them up) ESMERELDA… ESMERELDA: Yes?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME QUASIMODO: I…I…it’s nice, the two of us sitting. ESMERELDA: THE TWO OF US SITTING… CONGREGATION: THE TWO OF YOU SITTING…

(As the song ends, QUASIMODO and ESMERELDA are both sitting on the edge of the balcony.)

ALL: SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD (ESMERELDA moves his hair from out of his face. QUASIMODO gets off of the ledge and rings the bells for her). QUASIMODO: Oh, bells, oh, Gabriel, ring for her! Sing for her! Sing for Esmerelda! (The bells of so loud that ESMERELDA has to cover her ears). ESMERELDA: It’s so loud! QUASIMODO: Yes! ESMERELDA: Beautiful, but loud! QUASIMODO: All in good voice today! I knew today would be a special day! Look, up there is hot lead. ESMERELDA: Hot lead? QUASIMODO: Yes, I use to fix the bells. I show you! But careful, it’s very, very hot. FROLLO: (entering) QUASIMODO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING RINGING THE BELLS AT THE WRONG TIME?! SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU EVER- (sees ESMERELDA). Oh, my child. I looked for you after mass. I thought you left. Instead, I see my charge has distracted you. Quasimodo, you shouldn’t have. ESMERELDA: It was my fault, your grace. FROLLO: Oh, my son, don’t you have duties to perform? QUASIMODO: (bows) Yes, master. FROLLO: Don’t stray too far. (QUASIMODO exits reluctantly and gestures to the gargoyles to join him). FROLLO: Filling the boy’s head with dreams?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ESMERELDA: No, just thoughts. Nothing wrong with thoughts, is there? FROLLO: That depends. Well you see how impressionable he is. Little more than a child. ESMERELDA: Looking at him I don’t see a child. FROLLO: But you are in a way, you indicated a willingness to learn. A soul who wishes to be saved is all ready halfway there. I could instruct you in the gospels; share with you our Lord’s grace. You could come here every day. Better yet, perhaps…you could stay here. ESMERELDA: (smiles, but then recoils) Stay here? FROLLO: (getting more filled with lust) In the cathedral…with me (He attempts to grab her hand). ESMERELDA: (she becomes frightened and backs away) I don’t think that would be a good idea. FROLLO: No?… ESMERELDA: I see the way you look at me. FROLLO: (enraged) HOW DARE YOU?! Your soul is so unclean, you can’t imagine goodness in others. I should have known no gypsy would truly want to be saved. ESMERELDA: I don’t think I’m in need of saving. (She is slowly trying to get away). FROLLO: Of course, your kind never do. CAPTAIN! (He calls down to the square and grabs ESMERELDA). I could be a good friend to you, but I warn you, I could also be a terrible enemy! PHOEBUS: (below) Your grace! FROLLO: Escort this gypsy out of the church! She never sets foot here again and if she does she’ll be arrested! (He makes her leave) Quasimodo! That gypsy girlQUASIMODO: She…she was nice to me. FROLLO: Oh, was she? What do you know of people and their feelings, my boy?! QUASIMODO: Feelings? (realizing his mistake) I….nothing. FROLLO: Quasimodo, do you ever have impure thoughts? QUASIMODO: Impure…? FROLLO: Oh, a boy like you; all ready grown in body possessing those urges and ideas that come to a young man — (he is now furious) YOU MUST STOP. YOU MUST STOP THESE FEELINGS! (He smacks

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME QUASIMODO across the face). YOU MUST NOT FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF YOUR FATHER! HE WAS WEAK…and you have is corruption inside of you! Listen to me, Quasimodo, I’m warning you about her. She’s dangerous. She was put in our paths for a reason. To tempt us. Promise me you won’t think of her again. QUASIMODO: Think-? FROLLO: PROMISE! (He raises his hand to smack again). QUASIMODO: I promise…(he is crying now). (FROLLO opens his arms, and QUASIMODO embraces him). FROLLO: Soon we will be rid of her. CONGREGATION: (whispers) Esmerelda….Esmerelda….Esmerelda…. FROLLO: It’s just the two of us still, boy. You and I against the world. QUASIMODO: Yes, master! FROLLO: Good boy. Now sound the bells and send the city to sleep. Goodnight. QUASIMODO: Goodnight, master. (The bells start to ring) CONGREGATION: But despite his admonition to Quasimodo, Frollo himself cannot stop thinking about her. (FROLLO retrieves a cloak and goes out into the night) CONGREGATION: He began to walk the streets night after night, unable to bring himself to return alone to his cold, dark chambers. He barely knew what he was looking for, but he could not resist… FROLLO: (seeing a woman in the street)…so he saw her, everywhere!

13. THE TAVERN SONG (THAI MOL PIYAS)

(Clopin, and the Gypsies)

CLOPIN: ÁNDO BÍRTO ZHAS (Into the tavern we go) THAI MOL PIYAS (And wine we drink) AMÁRE LOVE DAS (Our money we give) THAI MOL PIYAS

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CONGREGATION: Until one night one night, walking down an unknown alley, he drew closer to the most unsavory part of the city. Passing lovers embracing in the shadows. FROLLO: He heard the sound of distant music. (FROLLO enters the tavern and hides). CONGREGATION: Humming from a hidden tavern called, LA POMME d’EVE! CLOPIN: ÁNDO BÍRTO ZHAS THAI MOL PIYAS AMÁRE LOVE DAS THAI MOL PIYAS CLOPIN AND GYPSIES: THAI MOL THAI MOL PIYAS IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT IN THE DEAD OF THE WINTER PLEASURE IS FLEETING ÁNDO BÍRTO ZHAS SO LIPS WILL BE MEETING THAI MOL PIYAS COME KEEP ME WARM UNTIL WARMING (They dance along with ESMERELDA). ÁNDO BÍRTO ZHAS THAI MOL PIYAS AMÁRE LOVE DAS THAI MOL PIYAS HEY HEY HEY ESMERELDA: WITH THE TASTE OF THE WINE HOLD ME CLOSE WHILE WE’RE DANCING ALL: AND I HEAR YOU SIGHING (ÁNDO BÍRTO ZHAS) WINTER IS DYING (ÁNDO BÍRTO ZHAS) YOU’LL KEEP ME WARM UNTIL MORNING CLOPIN: I’m sorry, but soldiers aren't welcome here.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME PHOEBUS: Relax, just looking for for a little rest and recreation for my young friend, Fredric, as well. CLOPIN: Well, I’m sure we can arrange that. PHOEBUS: Actually, I’m looking for someone in particular. CLOPIN: I’m afraid that doesn’t surprise me, but unfortunately she’s all ready spoken for. ESMERELDA: Oh really, Clopin? Nobody speaks for me. CLOPIN: (disappointed) I am only looking out for your own welfare. ESMERELDA: I can look out for myself. PHOEBUS: You lose friends easily, don’t you? ESMERELDA: I have that way about me. PHOEBUS: Which makes seeing you that more difficult. ESMERELDA: And does that disappoint you? PHOEBUS: Does that surprise you? ESMERELDA: Frankly, yes. PHOEBUS: Me too. ESMERELDA: Well, you found me, what are you going to do about that? PHOEBUS: I told you. I’m not as good as everybody likes to think. ALL: IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT FROLLO (from the shadows): BASE AND LEWD AND ODIOUS THIS VILE, DEPRAVED DISPLAY ALL: IN THE DEAD OF THE WINTER FROLLO: I CANNOT BEAR TO WATCH AND YET I CANNOT TURN AWAY

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ALL: YOU’LL KEEP ME WARM UNTIL MORNING PHOEBUS: Well, that was pleasant. For you too? ESMERELDA: I have to go. PHOEBUS: Why? ESMERELDA: You’re not the only one who needs to make a living. PHOEBUS: Where can I find you?! ALL: IN THE DARK OF THE NIGHT IN THE DEAD OF THE WINTER ÁNDO BÍRTO ZHAS THAI MOL PIYAS COME KEEP ME WARM UNTIL MORNING COME KEEP ME WARM UNTIL MORNING COME KEEP ME WARM UNTIL MORNING (At the bell tower) (QUASIMODO is looking down into the square, looking for ESMERELDA) QUASIMODO: Oh, I see her! GARGOYLE: That isn’t her… QUASIMODO: You’re right. I keep thinking I see her, everywhere. GARGOYLE: You’re not supposed to be thinking about her. QUASIMODO: Oh, I can’t help it. I miss her. GARGOYLE: Quasimodo, you can think about whoever you want. QUASIMODO: No! Master said I must not. GARGOYLE: He can’t tell you what to think and not think! Besides, you look down there almost every night. QUASIMODO: Yes, but this is different.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME 14. HEAVEN’S LIGHT

(Quasimodo)

Everything is different now. QUASIMODO: SO MANY TIMES OUT THERE I’VE WATCHED A HAPPY PAIR OF LOVERS WALKING IN THE NIGHT THEY HAD A KIND OF GLOW AROUND THEM IT ALMOST LOOKED LIKE HEAVEN’S LIGHT I KNEW I’D NEVER KNOW THAT WARM AND LOVING GLOW THOUGH I MIGHT WISH WITH ALL MY MIGHT NO FACE AS HIDEOUS AS MY FACE WAS EVER MEANT FOR HEAVEN’S LIGHT BUT SUDDENLY AN ANGEL HAS SMILED AT ME AND TOUCHED MY FACE WITHOUT A TRACE OF FRIGHT I DARE TO DREAM THAT SHE MIGHT EVEN CARE FOR ME AND AS I RING THE BELLS TONIGHT MY COLD, DARK TOWER SEEMS SO BRIGHT I SWEAR IT MUST BE HEAVEN’S LIGHT

15. HELLFIRE

(Frollo and Chorus)

(FROLLO enters behind the CONGREGATION, and kneels before the alter) CHORUS: CONFITEOR DEO OMNIPOTENTI BEATAE MARIAE SEMPER VIRGINI BEATO MICHAELI ARCHNAGELO SANCTIS APOSTOLIS OMNIBUS SANCTIS FROLLO: BEATA MARIA

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME YOU KNOW I AM A RIGHTEOUS MAN OF MY VIRTUE I AM JUSTLY PROUD CHORUS: ET TIBI PATER FROLLO: BEATA MARIA YOU KNOW I’M SO MUCH PURER THAN THE COMMON, VULGAR, WEAK LICENTIOS CROUD CHORUS: QUIA PECCAVI NIMIS FROLLO: SO TELL ME MARIA WHY I SEE HER DANCING THERE WHY HER SMOLD’RING EYES STILL SCORCH MY SOUL? CHORUS: COGITATIONE FROLLO: I FEEL HER, I SEE HER THE SUN CAUGHT IN HER RAVEN HAIR IS BLAZING IN ME OUT OF ALL CONTROL (His soul is filled with lust and fire toward the gypsy woman) LIKE FIRE HELLFIRE THIS FIRE IN MY SKIN THIS BURNING DESIRE IS TURNING ME TO SIN IT’S NOT MY FAULT! (The CONGREGATION turn on FROLLO) CHORUS: MEA CULPA

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: I’M NOT TO BLAME! CHORUS: MEA CULPA FROLLO: IT IS THE GYPSY GIRL THE WITCH WHO SENT THIS FLAME CHORUS: MEA MAXIMA CULPA FROLLO: IT’S NOT MY FAULT CHORUS: MEA CULPA FROLLO: IF IN GOD’S PLAN CHORUS: MEA CULPA FROLLO: HE MADE THE DEVIL SO MUCH STRONGER THAN THE MAN! CHORUS: MEA MAXIMA CULPA FROLLO: PROTECT ME MARIA DON’T LET THIS SIREN CAST HER SPELL DON’T HER FIRE SEAR MY FLESH AND BONE DESTROY ESMERELDA! AND LET HER TASTE THE FIRES OF HELL OR ELSE LET HER ME MINE AND MINE ALONE HELLFIRE, DARK FIRE NOW GYPSY, IT’S YOUR TURN CHOOSE ME OR YOUR PYRE BE MINE OR

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME YOU WILL BURN! CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON FROLLO: GOD HAVE MERCY ON HER CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON FROLLO: GOD HAVE MERCY ON ME CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON FROLLO: BUT SHE WILL BE MINE OR SHE WILL BURN (He exits) CONGREGATION: On the very next morning… LOUIS: (entering) King Louis the Eleventh, nicknamed “the prudent”… CONGREGATION:…received a visitor, who arrived announced. (FROLLO enters and kneels). FROLLO: Your MajestyLOUIS: (gasps) My astrologer told me I’d have an unexpected guest. (Gestures to FROLLO) FROLLO: Your Majesty, there is a gypsy witch who is endangering our citizens with her sorcery. She must be stopped. I need special powers to protect the people and the church. LOUIS: Frollo, you are a good man, but you know how I hate to be overly hasty. FROLLO: I do, Your Majesty, but be careful, unless the people think you are weak, and the various vergers around the city feel the need to get the upper hand. LOUIS: Very well, if you feel you must, but be well…

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME BOTH: “Prudent”. FROLLO: I assure you, Your Majesty, I will do only what is necessary.

15B. ESMERELDA’S EDICT

(Congregation Member)

MEMBER OF CONGREGATION: BY ROYAL EDICT WARRANT OF ARREST THE GYPSY KNOWN AS, ‘ESMERELDA’ BEING UNDER THE SUSPICION OF SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT AND THE ARTS OF HELL ANYONE FOUND HARBORING OR HELPING HER WILL BE CHARGED AS WELL FROLLO: The King has ordered the gypsy girl’s arrest. The Cathedral Guard will join the King’s soldiers to help find her. PHOEBUS: Cathedral Guard? But we have no military power! FROLLO: We do now. By His Majesty’s own authority. When the state asks for our help, the Church must lend support. (testing PHOEBUS) I take it I can rely on you to deliver her to me. PHOEBUS: Absolutely, your grace.

16. ESMERELDA

(Frollo, Phoebus, Quasimodo and Company)

FROLLO: HUNT DOWN THE GYPSY ESMERELDA DON’T LET HER FLEE AND VANISH IN THE NIGHT THESE ARE THE FLAMES OF ESMERELDA WHILE SHE IS FREE YOUR TORCHES MUST BURN BRIGHT ALL: HUNT DOWN THE GYPSY ESMERELDA DON’T LET HER FLEE AND VANISH IN THE NIGHT THESE ARE THE FLAMES OF ESMERELDA

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME WHILE SHE IS FREE OUR TORCHES MUST BURN BRIGHT FROLLO: (to QUASIMODO) Have no fear, my boy. We will find her and capture her. FROLLO: THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED THE HEART OF THE WICKED IS OF LITTLE WORTH THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED CONGREGANT: ALL THROUGH THE CITY AT A MORE FEVERED PITCH THAN THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME (The SOLDIERS and PHOEBUS search the town for her) PHOEBUS: Two gold pieces for the one who leads us to Esmerelda! CONGREGANT: FROLLO’S MEN SOUGHT ESMERELDA, THE WITCH WITH THE MIGHT OF NOTRE DAME PHOEBUS: Four gold pieces for the one who leads us to Esmerelda! CONGREGATION: TIL AT LAST THEY WERE TOLD OF A BROTHEL WHERE THEY SOMETIMES HID GYPSIES FROM HARM BUT THE MADAME THAT WHORED DENIED IT AND SWORE BY THE SAINTS THE SAINTS OF NOTRE DAME SOLDIER: We’re looking for La Esmerelda. MADAME: Never heard of her. But maybe one of my girls can be of service. Ah, Captain Phoebus. Nice to see you again. FROLLO: Is this your establishment? MADAME: Yes. And a man like you shouldn’t be here, sullying your pristine reputation. FREDERIC: No one else is left, your grace.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: Then she must be cleverly hidden. If you want your house to remain standing, give us the gypsy girl. MADAME: I know nothing of gypsy girls. FROLLO: Very well. We’ll set fire to it. And if, as you claim it’s empty, it won’t matter if we bar the door as well. MADAME: No…no, you mustn’t! FROLLO: A lesson needs to be learned here. (To PHOEBUS) Burn it. Did you hear me, Captain? PHOEBUS (standing still, unsure): AND HE HELD THE TORCH THAT CRACKLED LIKE THE GYPSY’S VOICE FROLLO: Are you disobeying a direct order? PHOEBUS: AND HE KNEW THIS WAS THE MOMENT HE MUST MAKE A CHOICE FROLLO: I knew it! She’s bewitched you, too. Captain! Carry out the order! CHORUS (PHOEBUS hears ESMERELDA’s words in his mind): GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS THEY LOOK TO YOU STILL GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS OR NOBODY WILL PHOEBUS: GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS OR NOBODY WILL! FROLLO: COWARD! TRAITOR! GYPSY’S PAWN YOU’RE RELIVED OF YOUR PATROL PHOEBUS: Consider it my highest honor! FROLLO: KYRIE ELEISON GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: Lieutenant, you’re now in charge! Arrest captain Phoebus! (The SOLDIERS draw their swords) ESMERELDA: (Entering from the shadows) No! FROLLO: You see? There she is! PHOEBUS: ESMERELDA! (The SOLDIERS and ESMERELDA fight. During the fight, ESMERELDA’s knife is knocked out of her hand). ESMERELDA: Phoebus! (FROLLO takes the knife and stabs PHOEBUS in the back, throwing the knife down afterwards.) FROLLO: The gypsy stabbed the captain! Arrest them both! (ESMERELDA takes PHOEBUS and dashes out in a puff of smoke). FROLLO: Witchcraft! You all saw that! We must find them! Find them if we have to burn down all of Paris! FROLLO: PEOPLE OF PARIS I’VE HEARD THE CALLING OF THE LORD THE TIME HAS COME TO TAKE OUR CITY BACK WE’LL SAVE ALL OF PARIS AND SPONGE THIS HEATHEN GYPSY WHORE BEFORE THY ROAM AROUND WE MUST ATTACK! ALL: HUNT DOWN THE GYPSY AND THE SOLDIER DON’T LET THEM FLEE AND VANISH IN THE NIGHT WE’LL FIND THE GYPSY AND THE SOLDIER WHILE THEY ARE FREE, OUR TORCHES WILL BURN BRIGHT QUASIMODO: FIRE, FIRE SMOKE AND FLAME ESMERELDA, WHERE ARE YOU? IN THIS DARK, I CALL YOUR NAME IS THAT ALL THAT I CAN DO?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME PHOEBUS: Esmerelda? ESMERELDA: Shh, you should have minded your own business. PHOEBUS: It had to be somebody’s business. ESMERELDA: I have to find a place to hide you. Wait here! (She runs off for help) PHOEBUS: Esmerelda, come back! PHOEBUS: WHAT HAVE I DONE FOR ESMERELDA WHY DO I HEAR HER WORDS INSIDE MY HEAD? AND STILL, I THINK OF ESMERELDA WITH MY CAREER AND BODY LEFT FOR DEAD QUASIMODO: OUT THERE, SOMEWHERE SHE IS LOST… PHOEBUS: SOMEWHERE SHE IS LOST… QUASIMODO AND PHOEBUS: ESMERELDA! ALL: WHERE IS THE GIRL CALLED ESMERELDA? THE FLAMES GO TALL AND SHARP AS FLEUR-DE-LIS CHORUS: MISERICORDIA ALL: ALL PARIS BURNS FOR ESMERELDA QUASIMODO, FROLLO, AND PHOEBUS: AND STILL IT ALL COMES DOWN TO HER AND ME CHORUS: ET DONA NOBIS FROLLO: THE DEVIL DWELLS IN ESMERELDA

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CHORUS: PACEM, PACEM QUASIMODO: OH ESMERELDA, OH ESMERELDA ALL: WAKE UP THE CITY AND SOUND THE ALARM! CHORUS: DONA NOBIS PACEM ALL: THESE ARE THE FLAMES OF ESMERELDA THE NIGHT IS SINGING OF ESMERELDA EVEN THE BELLS OF NOTRE DAME!

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ACT 2 17. ENTR’ACTE CHORUS: LIBERA ME DOMINE DE MORTE AETRNA QUANDO CAELI MOVENDI SUNT CAELI ET TERRA LIBERA ME DOMINIE DE MORTE AETRNA — O, SALUTARIS HOSTIA QUAE CAELI PANDIS OSTIUM — AGNUS DEI QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI AGNUS DEI DONA NOBIS PACEM

(Chorus)

(Deliver me, Lord) (From Death) (When the Heavens and the Earth shall be shaken) (Deliver me, Lord) (From Death) (Oh, our savior sacrifice) (For which Heaven will open its gates) (The maker of the world) (Whose sacrificial lamb will erase our sins) (And grant us peace)

(the bell tower again) ESMERELDA: (entering from below) Quasimodo! QUASIMODO: Esmerelda! You came back! ESMERELDA: Yes, I need your help. QUASIMODO: Anything. ESMERELDA: This was the closest place I could think of to hide him. (Other GYPSIES enter carrying the wounded PHOEBUS) QUASIMODO: (angry and hurt) Why is he here?! ESMERELDA: He’s been hurt! Quasimodo?! And he needs to recover. Can you keep him safely hidden somewhere? QUASIMODO: Oh, no. Master — ESMERELDA: Quasimodo, please help me. QUASIMODO: (he hesitates)…There.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ESMERELDA: Thank you! It won’t be long. When he’s stronger, send him to me. QUASIMODO: Where? ESMERELDA: Where we gypsies hide: The Court of Miracles. QUASIMODO: Court of Miracles? ESMERELDA: Here. (She hands QUASIMODO her necklace) When you wear this woven band, you hold the city in your hand. GYPSY: Esmerelda, quickly! Someone from the Cathedral Guard will be back soon! ESMERELDA: I must go now. Thank you. (She kisses his cheek and exits). QUASIMODO: How could you let her leave?! GARGOYLE: Go after her! QUASIMODO: Go after her? No. Can’t. GARGOYLE: But she was right here, and you let her go. QUASIMODO: (regretful) I could never go out there. GARGOYLE: She’s in danger out there! GARGOYLE: You have to save her! QUASIMODO: Save her? Me? GARGOYLE: What’s the matter?! Are you afraid?! GARGOYLE: Of course he’s afraid. And he should be. GARGOYLE: But that’s what makes you a hero! Doing what you’re afraid of! GARGOYLE: A hero! Or a saint!

18. FLIGHT INTO EGYPT

(St. Aphrodisius, Quasimodo and Gargoyles)

QUASIMODO: (realizing) You mean like Saint…Saint…what’s your name again?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ST. APHRODISIUS (a beheaded GARGOYLE): SAINT APHRODISIUS THE BISHOP THE BISHOP OF BÉZIERS I WAS BEHEADED BY A MOB IN PLACE SAINT-CYR AND THOUGH I MADE A CHOICE I DID NOT KNOW WOULD BRING MY GRIZZLY MODERING I WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING FOR I KEPT SAFE AND FREE THE HOLY FAMILY OF THAT FLIGHT INTO EGYPT LAND OF THE DATE AND PALM I OFFERED SHELTER TO HER WHO IS NOTRE DAME AND IF THAT’S WHAT I COULD DO THEN QUASIMODO YOU CAN TOO QUASIMODO: But even if I could go out there again, how could I find her? ST. APHRODISIUS: The amulet she gave you! “When you wear this woven band, you hold the city in your hand”. QUASIMODO:…you hold the city… GARGOYLE: But what is it?! Just a web and a jewel! GARGOYLE: It doesn’t mean anything… ST. APHRODISIUS: NO IT MUST BE A CLUE MADE WITH VILE AND ART GARGOYLE: SHE GAVE IT TO YOU BECAUSE SHE KNOWS YOU’RE SMART GARGOYLE: THINK QUASIMODO GARGOYLE: IS IT HOPELESS?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ST. APHRODISIUS: OR CAN YOU SEE IN IT SOMETHING YOU’VE SEEN BEFORE? QUASIMODO: Seen before?…Wait, wait! I know this. Look! This line: that’s the bridge and the street and this jewel MUST SHOW WHERE WE’RE SUPPOSED TO MEET! ALL: YOU’VE DONE IT, QUASIMODO THIS WE’RE CERTAIN OF! QUASIMODO: It’s a map! A map! Look… IT’S THE CITY SEEN FROM ABOVE! ALL: IT’S A MAP OF THE CITY FROM ABOVE! QUASIMODO: (he climbs onto the balcony and looks out into the night) I’ll do it. I will go out there tonight while it’s dark. I will find Esmerelda and I will bring her back! JUST LIKE THE ANGEL WHO WARNED JOSPEH HE MUST FLEE I’LL SAVE ESMERELDA HER ANGEL WILL BE ME I’LL GIVE HER SANCTUARY SOMEWHERE SAFE TO HIDE PROTECTING AT MY SIDE A LITTLE LIKE A BRIDE. ALL: LIKE SAINTS IN STONE AND SONG QUASIMODO: FOR HER I WILL BE STRONG! ALL: AND YOUR FLIGHT INTO EGYPT MAY LAST A WHOLE LIFE LONG ALL: YES, YOUR FLIGHT INTO MAY LAST

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME QUASIMODO: OUR WHOLE LIFE LONG PHOEBUS: (waking up) How did I get here? QUASIMODO: The Gypsy girl. PHOEBUS: Now I remember. Frollo! QUASIMODO: Need more bandages. Quiet! FROLLO: (entering from below) Quasimodo! PHOEBUS: Who’s that? (QUASIMODO closes the door on FROLLO, and pushes PHOEBUS back into his hiding place) FROLLO: (entering) Quasimodo? Quasimodo?! I heard something. Was that you? QUASIMODO: Yes, Master. FROLLO: Were you talking to someone? QUASIMODO: Just…my friend. FROLLO: Oh, your friends. Today was quite an eventful day. QUASIMODO: Ah, yes! That, too! FROLLO: Yes. The fires. Couldn’t be helped, I’m afraid. I’m glad you were up here safe from it all. QUASIMODO: Story! Story! Saint Aphrodisius! FROLLO: Oh, good memory. You seem distracted, my boy. Is something troubling you? QUASIMODO: Troubling? No no. FROLLO: (aware that he is being lied to) Quasimodo, you know I’m looking for Esmerelda for her own good. If you had any idea where she might be, it would be of great help to her and to me. Did she say anything when she spoke to you. Did she tell you where she sats? QUASIMODO: I…I… FROLLO: Yes?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME 18A. BELLS OF NOTRE DAME III

(Congregation)

CONGREGATION: AND THE HUNCHBACK LOOKED HIS MASTER IN HIS PIERCING EYE FROLLO: Quasimodo? AND FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE HE TOLD A LIE QUASIMODO: No! No Esmerelda. FROLLO: Well, that’s the answer then. Don’t be frightened, my boy. I’m not angry with you. (He consoles QUASIMODO)

18B. ESMERELDA II

(Frollo)

FROLLO: I KNOW WHAT LITTLE CHOICE YOU HAD YOU WERE SEDUCED SEDUCED BY ESMERELDA I KNOW YOU DON’T MEAN TO BE BAD AND YOU FEEL GRATITUDE FOR ALL I’VE DONE WHY, THERE ARE TIMES I ALMOST THINK OF YOU AS MY SON FREDERIC: (entering from the door) Excuse me, Your Grace. FROLLO: Don’t interrupt me here! FREDERIC: Beg pardon, but I have good news. My men believe they have found the gypsy’s hiding place. FROLLO: The Court of Miracles! FREDERIC: (laughs) Yes, they call it so. FROLLO: Well, I’m afraid their miracle has run out. We will attack at dawn. You see my boy, everything will be fine.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME 19. SANCTUARY V

(Frollo)

FROLLO: I WILL FIND HER NEVER FEAR THEN I WILL REJOIN YOU HERE TO CHEER HER CAPTURE IN OUR CHEERY SANCTUARY (he exits) QUASIMODO: (whimpers) PHOEBUS: Esmerelda. I have to warn her and the others. QUASIMODO: You?! No! I. PHOEBUS: You? How could you possibly? You can hardly speak! QUASIMODO: You can barely walk! PHOEBUS: You don’t know where anything in the city is! QUASIMODO: I see all from up here. Besides, I have clue. It’s a map. She gave me. PHOEBUS: Give that to me! (He grabs the necklace) QUASIMODO: No! Esmerelda gave it to me. PHOEBUS: Yes, but I need it to find her. QUASIMODO: I will find her. PHOEBUS: You? Don’t be ridiculous!

19B. REST AND RECREATION REPRISE

(Phoebus)

PHOEBUS: SOMETHING MUST BE DONE SURELY YOU CAN SEE REALISTICLY WHO’S GOT THE KNACK HERE

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CLEARLY, I’M THE ONE WHO CAN SAVE THE DAY YOU’D BE IN THE WAY SO—HEY, COME BACK HERE! CONGREGATION: And Quasimodo PHOEBUS: And Phoebus CONGREGATION: - quickly made their way through the dark streets of Paris, though the hunchback felt a thrill of fear at once more setting foot outside Notre Dame. QUASIMODO: OUT HERE ONCE AGAIN BEYOND MY PARAPETS OF STONE STEALING THROUGH THE TWISTING STREETS OF NIGHT WITH THE UNKNOWN STILL I MUST DO ANYTHING TO SAVE HER CONGREGATION: Creeping past the ghostly fountains beside which beggars slept. They ducked into the shadows to avoid being seen by a pair of women at the windows holding candles, which sputtered in the gathering fog. The curfew had sounded long ago and the streets were becoming blacker and more deserted every moment. They could distinguish nothing of the mass of buildings, except black roofs at strange acute angles. And the labyrinth of alleys and bridges like a ball of thread tangled by a cat. PHOEBUS: I think you got us completely lost! QUASIMODO: No, should be…right…here. PHOEBUS: Here? Where? Where the hell are we? QUASIMODO: Looks like cemetery. PHOEBUS: Oh god. You’ve taken us completely in the wrong direction. QUASIMODO: Hmm, what’s that? PHOEBUS: I don’t hear anything. CLOPIN: (jumping out) Aah!!

20. COURT OF MIRACLES

(Clopin and Gypsies)

CLOPIN: (victorious) Welcome the Court of Miracles! Very clever to have found our hide-away. Too bad you won’t live to talk about it. Get them inside!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME MAYBE YOU’VE HEARD OF A TERRIBLE PLACE WHERE THE SCOUNDRELS OF PARIS COLLECT IN A LAIR MAYBE YOU’VE HEARD OF THAT MYTHICAL PLACE CALLED THE THE COURT OF MIRACLES ALL: THE COURT OF MIRACLES! CLOPIN: BROTHER, YOU’RE THERE WHERE THE LAME CAN WALK AND THE BLIND CAN SEE BUT THE DEAD CAN’T TALK SO YOU WON’T BE AROUND TO REVEAL WHAT YOU’VE FOUND! WE HAVE A METHOD FOR FOR SPIES AND INTRUDERS NOT TERRIBLY DIFFERENT FROM BEES IN A HIVE HERE IN THE COURT OF MIRACLES WHERE IT’S A MIRACLE IF YOU GET OUT ALIVE GYPSY: Look, they have the hunchback and the man. Look! (QUASIMODO and PHOEBUS are led to be hanged) GYPSIES: Hang them both/Yeah/Hang them! CLOPIN: Apologies, gentlemen for you imminent demise. Any last words? QUASIMODO AND PHOEBUS: (muffled pleas through gags) CLOPIN: I thought not. IT’S ALWAYS SAD WHEN A LIFE’S AT ITS FINISH I HAVE TO ADMIT TO A BIT OF A PANG BUT WE MUST PROTECT AT MOST OUR SECRET

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ITS OUR LIVES OR YOURS! SO YOU’RE GOING TO HANG! ESMERELDA: (enters) Stop! Please. These men are my friends! CLOPIN: More than we are, apparently! Go! ESMERELDA: Hey! GYPSIES: No!/Esmerelda?! CLOPIN: (hurt) How could you betray us like this? ESMERELDA: I didn’t betray you. CLOPIN: No! Then what would you call telling them our hiding place?! GYPSIES: (yell in agreement) CLOPIN: I always knew you were trouble. PHOEBUS: You should be grateful to her! We’ve come to warn you! Frollo knows your hiding place. He plans on attacking at dawn. CLOPIN: All right, keep calm! How do you know this? QUASIMODO: Master told me. CLOPIN: Oh, why should we believe either of you? You’re Frollo’s slave! And him; he’s a soldier and we don't trust soldiers! ESMERELDA: He’s not a soldier anymore! PHOEBUS: I’m just as much an outcast as you. GYPSY: Clopin, if this is true… GYPSY: We don’t have much time! GYPSY: We need to get ready to leave. CLOPIN: I thought we’d have had a few years here at least. Yes, we must move quickly…Yes now! Esmerelda! Go pack now. PHOEBUS: Pack? You’re going with them?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CLOPIN: Of course, she is. No matter what, we won’t leave one of our own behind. ESMERELDA: Thank you, Clopin. PHOEBUS: Esmerelda, no. ESMERELDA: What would you have me do? PHOEBUS: Come with me? ESMERELDA: Where? PHOEBUS: (trying to stop her) I don’t know. We could make a life together. ESMERELDA: You really are a dreamer, aren't you? (she goes to QUASIMODO) QUASIMODO: Esmerelda. I hide you. I keep safe. ESMERELDA: Quasimodo, no. QUASIMODO: Maybe in crypts. And all… ESMERELDA: Thank you, Quasimodo, but it would be too dangerous. And not just for me. For you, too. PHOEBUS: Then if you won’t come with me, I’ll come with you. QUASIMODO: (how could she?) You?! Go with him?! ESMERELDA: You can’t, Phoebus. PHOEBUS: Why not? There’s nothing here for me anymore. Maybe there never was. ESMERELDA: Yes, but to become like one of us… CLOPIN: You’re crazy. You don't know what you'd be facing. PHOEBUS: I sure have gotten a pretty good idea of the last few weeks.

21. IN A PLACE OF MIRACLES

(Phoebus, Esmerelda, Quasimodo and Gypsies)

But I don’t care. PHOEBUS: HERE WE ARE

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME MERELY STRANGERS FROM TWO WORLDS THAT HAVE RARELY MET BUT SOMEHOW YOU HAVE MADE ME SOMEONE NEW TRAVELING FAR ON A JOURNEY THAT’S THE LONGEST I’VE TAKEN YET NOW I’M ASKING IF YOU WILL LET ME COME WITH YOU THOUGH OUR LIVES ARE TATTERED AND TORN AND ALL I’M FEELING NOW IS REBORN I MUST BE IN A PLACE OF MIRACLES ESMERELDA: WHERE THE BLIND CAN SEE PHOEBUS & ESMERELDA: IN A PLACE OF MIRACLES PHOEBUS: A MIRACLE YOU’VE BROUGHT TO ME PHOEBUS & ESMERELDA: THE SOLDIER AND THE GYPSY LOCKED IN AN EMBRACE IN A PLACE OF MIRACLES QUASIMODO: I KNEW I’D NEVER KNOW THAT WARM AND LOVING GLOW THOUGH I MIGHT WISH WITH ALL MY MIGHT NO FACE AS HIDEOUS AS MY FACE WAS EVER MEANT FOR HEAVEN’S LIGHT

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME AND NOW THIS TIME, IT’S TIME I’VE LEARNED NO LOVE WILL BE RETURNED ESMERELDA: ALL THIS TIME I’VE BEEN CERTAIN THAT MY LIFE WOULD BE SPENT ALONE QUASIMODO: TO ONE WHO’S BORN TO BE ALONE ESMERELDA: AND ONCE MORE I’VE PRETENDED NOT TO CARE QUASIMODO: WHO LOOKS BOTH LAUGHABLE AND FRIGHTENING PHOEBUS: BUT NOW I’M HERE BESIDE YOU QUASIMODO: AND NOW I KNOW THERE ARE NO MIRACLES FOR ME PHOEBUS & EMERALDA: NO MORE NEED FOR A HEART OF STONE QUASIMODO: BETTER TO HAVE A HEART OF STONE PHOEBUS & EMERALDA: WE’LL LET OUR FEELINGS UNKNOWN THEIR PLANS WE’LL SHARE QUASIMODO: I WAS NEVER MEANT FOR HEAVEN’S LIGHT GYPSIES: WILL WE REACH A FRIENDLIER SHORE

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME WILL WE FIND A HAVEN ONCE MORE WHERE WE’LL BE IN A PLACE OF MIRACLES NOW WE LEAVE OUR HOME FOR A PLACE OF MIRACLES CLOPIN: ROMANIS AGAIN MUST ROAM COULD THERE BE COUNTRY KINDER TO OUR RACE? GYPSIES: IN A PLACE OF MIRACLES QUASIMODO: WHERE’S MY PLACE OF MIRACLES? PHOEBUS: IN A PLACE ALL: OF MIRACLES FROLLO: (entering with his SOLDIERS) Sorry to interrupt. GYPSIES: (Gasps and screams) QUASIMODO: Master! FROLLO: Congratulations, my boy. You led us right to them. QUASIMODO: I? But — FROLLO: You didn't really think our soldier here had found this place, did you? So I finally get to see the Court of Miracles. It’s not so impressive. Arrest the gypsy and the traitor. ESMERELDA: (jumps in front) Spare Phoebus! Take me. PHOEBUS: (pushes her aside) No! Take me instead! FROLLO: Oh, how noble you two are. Take them both away. Round up the rest of the gypsies and bring them to the Bastille. QUASIMODO: No, no.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CLOPIN: (screams in Romani and disappears in a puff of smoke) SOLDIER: My God. FROLLO: It’s all right. We’ll find him. GYPSY: You’ll never find him. Closing will be halfway out of the city in no time. FROLLO: Proceed…(to QUASIMODO) My boy…(he grabs his ear) I’m very disappointed in you. Take him back to the bell tower. MAKE SURE HE CANNOT LEAVE IT!

21A. BELLS OF NOTRE DAME IV

(Congregation)

CONGREGATION: JUSTICE IN PARIS WAS OFTEN DISPLAYED IN THE SQUARE AT NOTRE DAME NOW WAS THE WOOD FOR A PYRE WAS LAYED IN THE SQUARE AT NOTRE DAME THERE CAME SOME WHO SOUGHT ENTERTAINMENT AND SOME WHO WISHED ALL GYPSIES HARM FOR THE RUMOR WAS GROWING A GYPSY WAS GOING TO BURN AT DAWN AT NOTRE DAME (A CELL appears and ESMERELDA is pushed inside. FROLLO enters and stops) FROLLO: Do you feel as uncomfortable as you look? ESMERELDA: I wouldn't give you the pleasure. FROLLO: It brings me no pleasure. I want to set you free. ESMERELDA: Then why don't you? FROLLO: Because in order to do that, I need you to make me a promise. You see? I still want to help you. I still believe your soul can be saved.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ESMERELDA: (rushes from him) Not the way you save! I’d rather die! FROLLO: What about Phoebus? Your Sun God? Would you rather he die as well? ESMERELDA: No… FROLLO: His fate lies in your hands. ESMERELDA: What?…I don't understand. Why me of all people?! FROLLO: I don't know why! I wish I knew! Sometimes we’re drawn to the very things that would repel us. ESMERELDA: You truly are a monster. FROLLO: No. No! Esmerelda, no. If these last few weeks have taught me anything, it’s that my curses…I’m truly human.

19, SANCTUARY VI

(Frollo)

FROLLO: Take pity on me. I deserted myself. You don't know what my love for you is! It’s fire! It’s hot lead! GYPSY WITCH YOU ROUSE IN ME THE FOOLISH WISH TO SET YOU FREE I’LL TAKE YOU SOMEWHERE I CAN BE YOUR SANCTUARY I WILL SAVE YOU, SORCERESS AND RAISE YOU UP TO HOLINESS TOGETHER WE WILL SHARE A BLESSED SANCTUARY (FROLLO has taken out her scarf and tries to wrap it around her. He pulls her into his body and she struggles to keep off of him) ESMERELDA: (screams) FROLLO: Love me! Love me! Yes! ESMERELDA: No! No! (screams and claws at FROLLO’s cheek, who falls) Demon!! Demon!! Help me! Please! FROLLO: Very well! Guard! (FREDERIC enters)

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FREDERIC: Your grace. FROLLO: Is there prisoner there? FREDERIC:Yes, Your Grace. FROLLO: Bring him in! FROLLO: Perhaps my dear, this will help you to think over my offer. Exchange your last words with each other. Unless, of course, you change your mind. (To FREDERIC) Don’t let them stay together too long. FREDERIC: Yes, your grace. (FROLLO exits the cell, and grabs PHOEBUS. He pulls him inside of the cell to ESMERELDA). PHOEBUS: (he goes to comfort her) Esmerelda… ESMERELDA: No, don’t. PHOEBUS: Listen, I — ESMERELDA: Just give me a moment! PHOEBUS: Frollo. What has he done?! ESMERELDA: He said — he…offered to set me free. PHOEBUS: Well, that’s wonderful. ESMERELDA:…If I give myself up to him. PHOEBUS:…Esmerelda. You must do it. Do anything you can to save yourself. ESMERELDA: That’s not what I would call saving myself…But it would save you. PHOEBUS: Me? ESMERELDA: That would be part of the bargain. He’ll spare you, and — PHOEBUS: I don’t care about what happens to me. But do it for yourself. ESMERELDA: No — PHOEBUS: Esmerelda…

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FREDERIC: (sneaking) Captain, you must go. PHOEBUS: Frederic, my friend, could you…If I offered you a little money, could you— FREDERIC: No, keep the money, Captain. I’ll come back at dawn (Exits). PHOEBUS: We’ve so little time to say good-bye. ESMERELDA: So, let’s say it while we have the chance. PHOEBUS: I’ve known soldiers not half as brave as you are. ESMERELDA: I don't feel very brave. But if there really is this Heaven you believe in…

23. SOMEDAY

(Esmerelda and Phoebus)

…maybe we’ll be able to watch from it together. When all this is gone and the world is a better place. I USED TO BELIEVE IN THE DAYS I WAS NAIVE THAT I’D LIVE TO SEE A DAY OF JUSTICE DAWN AND THOUGH I WILL DIE LONG BEFORE THAT MORNING COMES I’LL DIE WHILE BELIEVING STILL IT WILL COME WHEN I AM GONE SOMEDAY WHEN WE ARE WISER WHEN THE WORLD’S OLDER WHEN WE HAVE LEARNED I PRAY SOMEDAY WE YET LIVE TO LIVE AND LET LIVE SOMEDAY LIFE WILL BE FAIRER PHOEBUS: LIFE WILL BE FAIRER

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ESMERELDA: NEED WILL BE RARER PHOEBUS: NEED WILL BE RARER ESMERELDA: GREED WILL NOT PAY PHOEBUS: GREED WILL NOT PAY ESMERELDA: GOD SPEED PHOEBUS: GOD SPEED ESMERELDA: THIS BRIGHT MILLENNIUM PHOEBUS: THIS BRIGHT MILLENNIUM ESMERELDA: ON ITS WAY PHOEBUS: LET IT COME SOMEDAY (ESMERELDA sinks to the floor and cries) WHEN THE WORLD’S OLDER WHEN THINGS HAVE CHANGED BOTH: SOMEDAY THESE DREAMS WILL ALL BE REAL TIL THEN, WE’LL WISH UPON THE MOON CHANGE WILL COME PHOEBUS: ONE DAY

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ESMERELDA: SOMEDAY BOTH: SOON (they exit)

23B. OUT THERE III

(Chorus and Congregation)

CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON CONGREGATION: WHILE THE CITY SLUMBERED QUASIMODO SAT AWAKE AS THE NIGHT CREPT PERILOUSLY ONWARD NOT ONE WORD HE UTTERED NOT ONE MOVEMENT DID HE MAKE AWAITING THE MOMENT OF THE DAWN CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON (QUASIMODO is chained to the bannisters of Notre Dame. The GARGOYLES surround him) GARGOYLE: Quasimodo, you must try to free yourself. GARGOYLE: Don't you see whats going on down there?! GARGOYLE: They're building a pyre! GARGOYLE: The girl needs your help! QUASIMODO: Quiet. Go away! GARGOYLE: You're the only one who can save her now! QUASIMODO: You know what happens when I try to help. I only make things worse!

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME 24. MADE OF STONE

(Quasimodo)

GARGOYLE: You don’t believe that! QUASIMODO: How do you know what I believe?! WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF ME? HM? WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF ALL THE THINGS I FEEL? YOU’RE ONLY MADE OF STONE! WHO IS THAT YOU SEE? INSTEAD OF SEEING WHAT I AM FOR REAL THIS TWISTED FLESH AND BONE! GARGOYLES: But Quasimodo!/No, that’s not true! YOU’RE A LIAR! WITH EVERY NEW EXCUSE YOU TRY OUT YOU ONLY MAKE MY WANT TO CRY OUT WOULD THAT I WERE MADE OF STONE LIKE YOU GARGOYLES: You don’t believe that!/Don’t say that! YOU GIVE SUCH GOOD ADVICE SO WHY HAS NOT A SINGLE WORD YOU’VE SAID BEEN ANY HELP AT ALL? GARGOYLES: Quasimodo!/No! AND YOU, WHO SOUND SO NICE THE MORE YOUR DREAMS AND FANCIES FILL ME HEAD THE FURTHER THAT I FALL! SHUT MY BRAIN DOWN IF I WERE SENSELESS I’D PREFER IT ANOTHER GARGOYLE ON THIS TURRET SPITTING RAIN DOWN TO THE STONE BELOW! I’VE WASTED MY FAITH IN BELIEVING IN SAINTS

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME OF PLASTER WHEN THE ONLY ONE WORTH BELIEVING IN WAS MY MASTER HE’S THE ONE WHO NEVER LIED HE TOLD ME IT WAS CRUEL OUTSIDE HE TOLD ME HOW I HAD TO HIDE HIS WORDS WERE COLD AS STONE BUT THEY WERE TRUE NOT LIKE YOU TAKE ALL THE DREAMS YOU’VE SEWN TAKE ALL YOUR LIES AND LEAVE ME ALONE! GARGOYLES: ALRIGHT, QUASIMODO WE’LL LEAVE YOU ALONE ALRIGHT, QUASIMODO WE’LL BOTHER YOU NO LONGER YOU’RE RIGHT, QUASIMODO WE’RE ONLY MADE OF STONE ALL GARGOYLES: WE JUST THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE MADE OF SOMETHING STRONGER (they de-robe, become CONGREGATES and exit) QUASIMODO: NOW I’M ON MY OWN NEVER AGAIN TO WONDER WHAT’S OUT THERE LET IT REMAIN UNKNOWN! AND MY ONE HUMAN EYE WILL EVERMORE BE DRY UNTIL THE DAY I DIE AS IF I WERE MADE OF STONE!

25. FINALE ULTIMO

(Company and Chorus)

CHORUS: JUDEX CREDERIS

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME ESSE VENTURUS IN TE DOMINE SPERAVI NON CONFUNDAR IN AETERNUM SALVUM FAC POPULUM TUUM JUDEX CREDERIS (In the square a pyre is set for the burning. PHOEBUS and ESMERELDA enter and embrace. They are broken apart and ESMERELDA is brought up to the pyre. FROLLO joins her) 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! CHORUS: KYRIE ELEISON FROLLO: I will give you this opportunity to recant and save yourself. (Whispers to ESMERELDA) Think of what I’ve offered. What is your answer? ESMERELDA: (Spits in FROLLO’s face) CHORUS: 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! (The executioner lowers the flame to the wood. FROLLO stops him. He grabs the torch and lights the fire himself) QUASIMODO: ESMERELDA! CHORUS: LIBERA ME DOMINE DE MORTE AETERNA CONGREGATION: And at that moment, Quasimodo decided… CHORUS: IN DIE ILLA TREMENDA

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME QUANDO CAELI MOVENDI SUNT CONGREGATION: He could remain stone no longer… CHORUS: CAELI ET TERRA DUM VENERE JUDICARE SAECULUM PER IGNEM CONGREGATION: He climbed down the bannister! (QUASIMODO climbs down to the lower banks of Notre Dame to save ESMERELDA) CHORUS: 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 (He flies down on a rope and grabs ESMERELDA off of the pyre. He carries her into the cathedral) QUASIMODO: Sanctuary! CHORUS: SANCTUS QUASIMODO: Sanctuary! CHORUS: IN EXCELSIS

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME FROLLO: Captain, seize the cathedral! FREDERIC: But sir, the laws of sanctuary! FROLLO: I am the archdeacon of this cathedral, I negate the laws of sanctuary! Open those doors! CONGREGATION: As the soldiers attempted to ram open the church doors, they suddenly saw Quasimodo hurl giant stones and wooden beams. CHORUS: DIES IRAE DIES ILLA DIES IRAE DIES ILLA CONGREGATION: As the soldiers pounded at the great door, a foggier suddenly appeared where Captain Phoebus was being held! PHOEBUS: And he was set free! CLOPIN: By the heroic Clopin! CONGREGATION: And together they rallied the people to fight! PHOEBUS: HERE ME PEOPLE OF PARIS CHORUS: OLIM DEUS ACCELERE PHOEBUS: SOMEDAY YOUR PATIENCE WILL FINALLY PAY CHORUS: HOC SAECULUM SPLENDIDUM ACCELERE FIAT VENIRE OLIM PHOEBUS: WHY NOT MAKE SOMEDAY COME RIGHT NOW?

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME CONGREGATION: The people fought the soldiers but could not hold them back. With one final blow, they knocked down the doors. And Quasimodo 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. CHORUS: MORS STUPEBIT ET NATURA CUM RESURGET CREATURA JUDICANTI RESPONSURA SOLDIER: My god, look up there! He’s way up there! (QUASIMODO and the GARGOYLES stir the hot lead) QUASIMODO: COME ALL YOU SAINTS OF STONE ALL YOU GUARDIANS AND GARGOYLES RAISE THE FIRE IN THE NIGHT RAISE THE FIRE 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…! (The hot lead is poured down onto the chaos below. The smoke clears and QUASIMODO returns to where he his ESMERELDA) QUASIMODO: We’ve done it, Esmerelda! Beaten them back! Esmerelda? You are home. ESMERELDA: Home? HERE AGAIN AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD TWO FRIENDS ENJOYING

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME THIS BEAUTIFUL MORNING IN MY EYES YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL, TOO SHARING THE TOP OF THE WORLD QUASIMODO: Can stay inside here forever. ESMERELDA: I don’t think…forever. You are such a good friend, Quasimodo. QUASIMODO: Yes, your friend. (With one last breath, ESMERELDA dies in the arms of QUASIMODO) QUASIMODO: Esmerelda? Esmerelda, wake up! (FROLLO enters from below. He escaped the sea of flame in the square) 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! Never go back! FROLLO: We will. You’ll see… AT LAST WE’RE FREE OF ESMERELDA NOW THAT SHE’S GONE HER POISON DIES WITH HER NOW THAT WE’RE FREE OF ESMERELDA WE CAN GO ON AS CLOSE AS ONCE WE WERE HERE IN OUR SANCTUARY SANCTUARY… QUASIMODO: Sanctuary? No sanctuary without her! FROLLO: It was her choice, Quasimodo. I could have helped her. Even loved her.

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME 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, weak! QUASIMODO: He? You are the weak one. You the wicked one! (Imitating his master, QUASIMODO rises up and stands taller than FROLLO, with the look of vengeance in his eyes) QUASIMODO: And the wicked shall not go unpunished! CONGREGATION: THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED THE HEART OF THE WICKED IS OFF LITTLE WORTH THE WICKED SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED (The CONGREGATION form the balcony and QUASIMODO slams the door shut, cutting off an exit for FROLLO) CHORUS: SOLVET SAECULUM IN FAVILLA TESTE DAVID CUM SYBILLA QUANTUS TREMOR EST FUTURUS QUANDO JUDEX EST VENTURUS (He grabs FROLLO and lifts him over the balcony) FROLLO: Let go of me! Quasimodo, no, don’t! QUASIMODO: I told you, master. I am very strong! CONGREGATION: 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 is thrown to his death) FROLLO: Damnation…! QUASIMODO: There lies all that I have ever loved. (He has lost everything and he weeps, looking down at his master’s mangled corpse below)

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME PHOEBUS: (entering) Esmerelda? QUASIMODO: Gone…gone… PHOEBUS: No… (he weeps as well) CONGREGATION: THE WORLD IS CRUEL THE WORLD IS UGLY BUT THERE ARE TIMES AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHEN THE WORLD IS NOT (QUASIMODO consoles PHOEBUS and lifts ESMERELDA in his arms.) AND AT ITS CRUELEST IT’S STILL THE ONLY WORLD WE’VE GOT LIGHT AND DARK FOUL AND FAIR QUASIMODO: OUT THERE… (They are now in the street in front of the cathedral. QUASIMODO weeps again and lowers ESMERELDA to the ground. From the crowd, the TOWNSPEOPLE step out and recreate the reveal of QUASIMODO at the beginning of the story. They apply paint to their faces and twist their bodies in front of him) CHORUS: OLIM DEUS ACCELERE HOC SAECULUM SPLENDIDUM CONGREGATION AND CHORUS: 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…

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME QUASIMODO: SOMEDAY… CONGREGATION AND CHORUS: SOON… QUASIMODO: (now just the actor) Years later, in the crypts below Notre Dame, there were discovered two skeletons. One of which held the other in its embrace. The first was that of 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. ALL: (sighs) CLOPIN (steps out): 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 CONGREGATION: 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? ALL: SING THE BELLS ,BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS, BELLS… (over this) CLOPIN, QUASIMODO, ESMERELDA, PHOEBUS, FROLLO (entering): WHATEVER THEIR PITCH YOU CAN FEEL THEM BEWITCH YOU THE RICH AND THE RITUAL KNELLS OF THE…

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