The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Dom Claude Frollo
La Jolla Playhouse

Directed by Scott Schwartz

Awards & Honors

WINNER
Craig Noel Award
Outstanding Featured Male Performance in a Musical

A note from patrick

“The show’s center of gravity (with a capital G), though, lies in Page’s intensely affecting portrayal of the tormented Frollo. As his righteousness curdles into lunatic cruelty over carnal feelings for Esmeralda (whose hated Gypsy heritage makes her particularly forbidden), Frollo becomes like a one-man black hole, sucking away Paris’ light and life.

Of course, he decides it’s she who must be purified in a “Hellfire” (the title of Frollo’s disturbingly stirring signature number). And yet against all odds, Page elicits at least a little sympathy for this seeming monster of a man, a fact that’s crucial to making the show work.

His singular bass-baritone vocals (put to use in the earlier Disney shows “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Lion King” as well “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and numerous Old Globe shows) also are suited perfectly to the part.”

San Diego Union Tribune
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