The Hunchback of Notre Dame

This specific production does not yet have a description, but the play itself does:

from Victor Hugo’s novel

Cast & Crew

Cast

Observations

1. On 20^th September 2021 at 7:56 p.m., ROADSCOUT noted:

   This was the first production for which I wrote the incidental music score at the National Theatre, performing on rebec and violin. I was also given a speaking part in which I was to give a feeder line for a joke: after being told to ‘shushh’ by Jim Carter I was to stop playing and say “But it’s marked Forte” to which he would reply “Well then play it at 39”. However on the Press Night, after being told to shut up, I replied “But it’s marked LOUD” (english translation of the italian dynamic marking…) after a slight pause he said “Oh FORGET it!” and, in subsequent performances, the lines were dropped! Also my father (a well known violiniust) had died in Octeober of that year and just after his death a golden angel playing the violin, which we had on the wall of our house, fell off. During the production there was a moment when audience was invited onto the stage and, after the exchange with the actors they would be given a present. On the night my wife (Lucie Skeaping) went to see it she happened to be invited onstage and, after the exchange with the actors, she was presented with a golden angel playing the violin – exactly the same as the one that fell mysteriously from the wall of our home. This was a very funny production and Bill Wallis’s improvisational ability enhanced the show greatly. I think I deserve the composer credit missing for this production!

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