The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Description
Where are those sophisticated, provocative, compassionate folks from Disney Theatricals when you really need them? Surely if they took their Mickey-Mousified screen treatment of Victor Hugo's 1831 tragic novel and gave it the Rudy-Giulianified Broadway treatment they've inflicted on Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hans Christian Andersen and Mary Poppins, the results would still have more soul and style than the latest monstrosity the Bailiwick hath wrought. Composer Dennis DeYoung (late of Styx) and director David Zak have whipped up an unholy, screeching synth musical that curiously feels like a parody of a satire of a spoof of this kind of ill-advised page-to-stage theater.—Christopher Piatt
When
Aug 31 2008 3:30pm