The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) June 21, 1996 to generally positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing over $325 million worldwide and becoming the fifth highest-grossing release of 1996. The film received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Menken's musical score. A darker, more Gothic stage adaptation of the film, was rewritten and directed by James Lapine and produced by Walt Disney Theatrical in Berlin, Germany, as "Der Glöckner von Notre Dame", and ran from 1999 to 2002. A direct-to-video sequel, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame II", was released in 2002. In 1482 Paris, Clopin, a gypsy puppeteer, narrates the origin of
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film) musical "The Who's Tommy", Broadway actor Paul Kandel was selected to voice Clopin. Alongside "Pocahontas" (1995), storyboard work on "The Hunchback of the Notre Dame" was among the first to be produced for an animated film on the new Disney Feature Animation building adjacent to the main Disney lot in Burbank, which was dedicated in 1995. However, as the Feature Animation building was occupied with "The Lion King" and "Pocahontas" at the time, more animators were hired from Canada and United Kingdom to join the production team for "Hunchback", and as the development phase furthered along, most of the entire