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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Book by Peter Parnell
The Hobby Center Houston
Director: Joe Calarco
Choreographer/Associate Director: Hope Easterbrook
Music Director: Andrew Orbison
Scenic Design: Timothy Mackabee
Costume Design: Johanna Pan
Lighting Design: Tyler Micoleau
Projection & Video Design: Greg Emetaz
Sound Design: Andrew Harper
Wig Design: Tommy Kurzman
Makeup Design: Kirk Cambridge Del-Pesche
Fight Director: Kyle Clark
Intimacy Coordinator: Nancy Lynch
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Veronica Otim & Company
Mesmerizing.This show's direction under Joe Calarco doesn't replicate - it re-creates.
In his director's note, he explains "I don't really believe in realism in the theatre. If I want realism, I'll stay home and look out my window." Thank goodness: this allows Calarco to take all sorts of risks ranging from how to convey physical deformity to the sublimity of the terrifying and the beautiful in Notre Dame Cathedral itself. And those risks sure pay off.
--Houston Press
Hunchback is yet to see the lights of Broadway, which is a shame, because this magnificently produced version is made for the Great White Way. Minimally designed by Tim Macabee with a simple mobile elegance that uses a signature gigantic lacy rose window dropping down from the flies for interiors of the mighty cathedral, enhanced by wondrous projections by Greg Emetaz of buttresses, architectural details, and then clouds and flames and stars in the background; truly atmospheric lighting by Tyler Micoleau; and Joanna Pan’s costumes that are part-grunge, part-gym wear, but a winning contemporary fusion of medieval and today; and the absolute finesse and sensitivity of director Joe Calarco, there’s a whole lot of creativity on display.
--Houston Chronicle
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