The Whistleblower of Notre Dame (6+) | Theater Terra

After Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz and JungleBoek, Theater Terra will present a new completely unique adventurous family musical for all ages 6 and up in season 2024 - 2025: The Whistleblower of Notre Dame.

Based on the novel by Victor Hugo and inspired by the film by Disney, this adventurous and romantic story has everything to be incorporated by Theater Terra in its own artistic signature, with puppetry, inventive sets, very good actors and new music. An enchanting family musical full of heroes, villains, humor, adventure and music!

The romantic city of lights of Paris is the setting for this adventurous family musical, in which the kind and shy bell-ringer Quasimodo lives in the bell towers of Notre Dame, high above the city. Although his patron Frollo is strict and does not allow Quasimodo to leave the towers, he escapes anyway and attends the Festival of Fools, the biggest and most colorful festival of the year. There he meets the beautiful French Esmeralda and becomes involved in a battle in which he will have to protect her....

This production replaces the announced DreamWorks Madagascar production, which will be moved to a later season. The creators of Theater Terra are eager to tell this story in 2024, which is very relevant right now, we are happy to explain. In the year 1831, Victor Hugo, the French writer who would also write Les Miserables later in his career, went to investigate in the cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, in his own city. There, in a corner of a tower, he found the letters "damned," scratched on the wall by someone in the Middle Ages. He wondered who had scratched this in here some 400 years before his time, who felt damned in the tower of Notre Dame. That gave him the idea of Quasimodo, a bell-ringer who might have lived in that tower. He was different from the rest of the Parisians, was not allowed to leave the tower and felt ... doomed. This story grew into 11 books by Victor Hugo, originally published under the name Notre Dame de Paris and known to us as The Whistleblower of Notre Dame.

For nearly two hundred years, this story and the basilica in Paris where this story might have taken place symbolized the Middle Ages, Gothic architecture and Paris as a whole. Until 2019, when a fire destroyed large parts of Notre Dame and its survival was feared worldwide. Fortunately, backers from around the world made it possible for the French to quickly restore the church, and exactly this fall of 2024, the church is already opening to the public. That's the perfect time to bring Notre Dame back to its glory in theaters as well, with an all-new adaptation of The Whistleblower of Notre Dame by Theater Terra. The show begins in the present, with an archaeologist during the restoration of the church after the fire, once again finding the words "damned" in a tower, just as Victor Hugo did nearly 200 years ago. And then the story of the Whistleblower comes alive again. And from 2024, Notre Dame will shine like never before, especially in the theater, where we experience and celebrate culture.