Paul Kandel credited as playing...
Clopin
- [describing the bells]
- Clopin: Listen. They're beautiful, no? So many colors of sound, so many changing moods. Because, you know, they do not ring all by themselves.
- Puppet: They don't?
- Clopin: No, you silly boy. Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower, lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?
- Puppet: Who?
- Clopin: What is he?
- Puppet: What?
- Clopin: How did he come to be there?
- Puppet: How?
- Clopin: Hush!
- Puppet: Ow!
- Clopin: Clopin will tell you. It is a tale, a tale of a man, and a monster.
- Clopin: [singing] Now here is a riddle / To guess if you can / Sing the bells of Notre Dame / Who is the monster / And who is the man?/ Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells / Bells of Notre Dame
- Clopin: [singing] So, here is a riddle to guess if you can, sing the bells of Notre Dame: What makes a monster and what makes a man? Whatever their pitch, you feel them bewitch you, the rich and the ritual knells of the bells of Notre Dame.
- Man In Crowd: That's no mask.
- Woman In Crowd: It's his face! He's hideous!
- Man In Crowd: It's the bellringer from Notre Dame!
- [the crowd gasps in fright]
- Quasimodo: Oh! Oh! Oh!
- [buries his face in his hands]
- Clopin: [appearing onstage reassuring the audience, then soon crowning Quasi] Ladies and gentlemen, don't panic. We asked for the ugliest face in Paris, and here he is! Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame!
- Clopin: [to Quasimodo and Phoebus] Don't interrupt me! You're very clever to have found our hideaway. Unfortunately, you won't live to tell the tale.
- Clopin: [singing] Once a year we throw a party here in town / Once a year we turn all Paris upside-down / Every man's a king and every king's a clown / Once again it's Topsy-turvy Day!
- Clopin: [singing] Justice is swift in the Court of Miracles / I am the lawyers and judge all in one / We like to get the trial over with quickly / Because it's the sentence that's really the fun!
- [Opening lines]
- Clopin: [singing] Morning in Paris, the city awakes / To the bells of Notre Dame / The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes / To the bells of Notre Dame / To the big bells as loud as the thunder / To the little bells soft as a psalm / And some say the soul of the city's the toll of the bells / The bells of Notre Dame.
- Crowd: [sings] Come one, come all! / Leave your looms and milking stools / Coop the hens and pen the mules. / Come one, come all! / Close the churches and the schools / It's the day for breaking rules / Come and join the feast of...
- Clopin: [sings] Fools!
- Clopin: [after Esmeralda's dance at the Festival of Fools] And now, ladies and gentlemen, the pi-ece de resistance!
- [Quasimodo and Phoebus are bound, gagged and about to be hung]
- Esmeralda: Stop!
- [Clopin turns as Esmeralda bursts through the crowd]
- Quasimodo, Phoebus: [muffled] Esmeralda!
- Esmeralda: These men aren't spies. They're our friends.
- Clopin: Why didn't they say so?
- [Esmeralda removes their gags]
- Quasimodo, Phoebus: We *did* say so!
- Esmeralda: [unties them] This is the soldier who saved the miller's family, and Quasimodo helped me escape the cathedral.
- Phoebus: We came to warn you! Frollo's coming!
- [crowd gasps]
- Phoebus: He says he knows where you're hiding, and he's attacking at dawn with a thousand men!
- [crowd panics]
- Esmeralda: Then let's waste no time! We must leave immediately!