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
Notre-Dame de Paris (musical) cutting down Esmeralda’s body from the gibbet, Quasimodo appears and demands that they give him her body. Driving them away, he kneels beside her body and mourns her, promising to stay with her and that even in death they will not be parted ("Danse, Mon Esmeralda"). After the curtain call, Gringoire leads the cast in a reprise of "Le Temps des Cathedrales". 1. Overture — Orchestra 2. The Age of the Cathedrals — Gringoire 3. The Refugees — Clopin & Chorus 4. Frollo's Intervention — Frollo & Phoebus 5. The Bohemian Song — Esmeralda 6. Esmeralda, You See — Clopin