Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Studio Cast Recording)

2016 release. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (American Premiere Studio Cast Recording) is a deluxe package containing a full-color, 32-page booklet with lyrics, show and in-studio photos, a show synopsis, and a liner note by the show's legendary composer, Alan Menken. Long-awaited - by Disney and musical theater fans alike -The Hunchback of Notre Dame English-language cast album. This is the only stage collaboration from two masters of the American musical, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a dramatic telling of the famous love story on a grand scale, with a lush, emotionally rich score featuring music by Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast) and lyrics by Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin). This first ever recording of the acclaimed American stage score based on the Academy Award-nominated 1996 film brings together a 25 piece orchestra, a choir of 28 and some of Broadway's most formidable talent: Michael Arden (Big River) as Quasimodo, Patrick Page (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as Dom Claude Frollo, Ciara Rene (Pippin) as Esmeralda, Andrew Samonsky (Lincoln Center's South Pacific) as Captain Phoebus de Martin and Erik Liberman (Lovemusik) as Clopin Trouillefou.