Word: frollo
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...Paris has put on its own French-accented musical. Notre Dame de Paris gives Victor Hugo's Quasimodo tale a pop-rock attitude, as the performers growl Richard Cocciante's ho-hummable score into their Madonna mikes. A few fine singers (Janien Masse as Esmeralda, Francis Ruivivar as Frollo) can't save the old tragedy from becoming a new disaster. The show's big, all right: a big mess...
...charge from which he is certainly safe: when he's not campaigning in order to make the point that democracy is alive and well, Krulick is dazzling youngsters at Walt Disney World's stage adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which he plays evil archbishop Claudo Frollo...
...Judge Frollo, spoken and sung by Tony Jay--a classically-trained stage actor--steals the show as Disney's greatest villain since Snow White's wicked Queen herself. Frollo's solo "Hellfire" combines the best of the score of Alan Menken (music man for all five of Disney's last animated features) with riveting, spooky animation...
...Hunchback" tackles more adult themes than any prior Disney movie. Unlike previous Disney villains motivated by power hunger and jealousy, Judge Frollo is driven by guilt over his lust for the beautiful gypsy Esmerelda (spoken by Demi Moore in her sexiest role of the summer and sung by Heidi Mollenhauer...
...addition to Quasi and Frollo, Esmerelda is faced with a third suitor, the handsome and gallant Phoebus, Captain of the Guards. This love rectangle is new to Disney, as Quasi finds himself competing with another good guy for Esmerelda's love...