The musical Notre Dame de Paris, or Notre Dame de Paris, was created in France based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. Thanks to the successful rental, over time, the musical appeared American, Italian, Russian and other versions.
In two acts and fifty-two songs of the musical, the plot of the novel of the great French writer is revealed. The action begins with the story of gypsies, vagabonds, who arrive in Paris and try to get to the Notre Dame Cathedral. They are stopped and driven off by a regiment of royal shooters led by Captain Phoebus. The captain, engaged to the young Fleur de Lis, looks at one of the gypsies - Esmeralda. She is under the auspices of the gypsy baron, since she was left without parents.
Esmeralda is no stranger to men's attention. The ringer Notre Dame is also in love with her, a hunchback named Quasimodo, who is trying by all means to please the gypsy. The priest Frollo is also not indifferent to the beauty, but his love borders on hatred. He accuses Esmeralda of witchcraft and persuades Quasimodo to abduct the girl. Captain Phoeb breaks plans, Frollo hides, and Quasimodo the royal guards arrest and sentenced to wheeling, but he manages to escape, not without the help of Esmeralda.
The gypsy woman, meanwhile, falls in love with Phoebe: she agrees to go on a date, spends the night with him. Having learned about this, the priest bursts into their bedroom and wounds the captain with Esmeralda’s dagger, and he again hides. Now the girl is accused of assaulting the royal shooter, she will face the death penalty. The judge is the two-faced Frollo: after Esmeralda refuses to become his mistress, he orders to hang her. And captain Phoebe, recovering, returns to his bride.
In the dungeon, where he awaits the hour of the execution of Esmeralda, Frollo is trying to rape the girl. But Quasimodo and the gypsy baron Klopen interfere with him. Having escaped with a gypsy, they all hide in Notre Dame, which is besieged by soldiers. Captain Phoebe, who promised the bride that he would avenge Esmeralda for the wound, is looking for her. An innocent gypsy is given to him by a priest. Her patron Klopen, like many other tramps, is killed.
Esmeralda is executed. Learning about this and the role of Frollo in the whole story, the inconsolable Quasimodo, the only one who selflessly loved the girl, throws the priest off the bell tower of the Cathedral. In the finale, the hunchback dies with the body of a lover in his arms.
