God Help the Outcasts God Help the Outcasts "God Help the Outcasts" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz for Walt Disney Pictures' 34th animated feature film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame "(1996). A pop ballad, the song is performed by American singer Heidi Mollenhauer as the singing voice of Esmeralda on American actress Demi Moore's behalf, who provides the character's speaking voice. A prayer, "God Help the Outcasts" is a somber hymn in which a beset Esmeralda asks God to shield outcasts and Roma like herself against racism and discrimination at the hands of Paris and Judge Claude
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) adapt "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" came from development executive David Stainton in 1993, who was inspired to turn Victor Hugo's novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" into an animated feature film after reading the Classics Illustrated comic book adaptation. Stainton then proposed the idea to then-studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. Following "Beauty and the Beast", Gary Trousdale had taken the opportunity to take a break from directing, instead spending several months developing storyboards for "The Lion King". Following this, Trousdale and Kirk Wise subsequently attempted developing an animated feature based on the Greek myth of Orpheus titled "A Song of the