Award-winning producer Jack Maple is delighted to announce that Ben Joyce, Zachary James, Christine Allado, Dex Lee and Adam Strong will lead an onstage company of over 50 in the UK professional premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Prince Edward Theatre, a Delfont Mackintosh Theatre.
The production will have three performances, 3pm and 7:30pm on Sunday 17 August 2025 and 6pm on 24 August 2025.
The role of Quasimodo will also be BSL interpreted on-stage by Oliver Hewing. Olivier is about to graduate from the Performers College and has performed as a dancer whilst training in City Rhythm, The Door and The Focus for MOVE IT, the world’s biggest dance event.
Completing the cast are Lois Mia Chapman (The Mad Ones: There Was An Afterparty, The Other Palace), Davide Fienauri (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, UK Tour), Caleb Lagayan (Miss Saigon, UK Tour), Emma Lloyd (Sunset Boulevard, West End & Broadway), Anna Marya Smith (Billy Elliot The Musical, Curve Leicester), Fanja Parent (The Wizard of Oz, West End),and Aaron Rahn (Aladdin, Norwich Theatre).
The production also features a 20 piece choir from the London Voices.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame has music and lyrics from the 1996 animated film by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz and additional songs written for the musical by the two Oscar winners, a book by Peter Parnell and will be directed by Jonathan O’Boyle with musical direction by Olivier Award-winner Alan Williams. The concert will have choreography by Olivier Award nominee Mark Smith (The Little Big Things, Founder of Deaf Men Dancing), lighting design by Jamie Platt (Something Rotten in Concert), costume design by Alice McNicholas (Spring Awakening 15th Anniversary Reunion), sound design by Sound Quiet Time (Stereophonic, West End) casting direction by WhatsOnStage Award-winner Harry Blumenau (Why Am I So Single?), production management by Toby P Darvill for Production Solutions Group and creative signing consultation by Kevin Jewell.
The orchestra includes Jonathan Lee (leader; violin), Laura Melhuish (violin), Ciaran McCabe (violin), William Hillman (violin), Millie Ashton (violin), Rebecca Bill (violin), Rachel Robson (viola), Elaine Ambridge (viola), Nerys Richards (cello), Dave Hornberger (cello), Adam Higgs (double bass), Jack Reddick (Flute/Piccolo/Clarinet/ Soprano Saxophone), Hannah Lawrance (Alto Saxophone/Clarinet), Janey Miller (Oboe/Cor Anglais), Alice Lee (Baritone Saxophone/Bass Clarinet/Bassoon), Russell Bennett (Trumpet I/Piccolo Trumpet); Angela Whelan (Trumpet II/Flugelhorn); Chris Augustine (Trombone/Bass Trombone/Euphonium); Anna Douglass (French Horn); James Turner (Drum/Percussion); Alan Berry (Keyboard I) and Mark Etherington (Keyboard II).
