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News Stage Hunchback of Notre Dame Tops Billboard Cast Albums Chart The studio album for the Alan Menken-Stephen Schwartz Disney stage musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame, featuring many members of the original production that played in California and New Jersey, claimed the #1 spot on Billboard magazine's Cast Albums chart and rose to #47 on the Billboard Top 200 albums overall.

Released Jan. 22, the recording debuted at #5 on the iTunes Top Albums chart in its first day and was #9 on Billboard鈥檚 Current Digital Albums chart for its first week.

Producers released a special "making of" video to coincide with the arrival of the CD. It is linked further down in this story.

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Check out 半岛体育.com's exclusive first-listen track. Listen to the Act I finale, "Esmeralda," which features the principals, , , , and the chorus:

 

The album is available . The CD comes packaged with a 32-page booklet with full lyrics, photos and a note from composer Alan Menken. You can also get more information by visiting . The album is produced by , Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Chris Montan and executive producer Kurt Deutsch.

The album features Michael Arden () as Quasimodo, Patrick Page (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as Dom Claude Frollo, () as Esmeralda, Andrew Samonsky () as Captain Phoebus de Martin and () as Clopin Trouillefou.

Featured in the ensemble are , Mary Joe Duggan, Ian Patrick Gibb, , , Neal Mayer, Nora Menken, , Anise Ritchie, Vincent Rodriguez III, Richard Ruiz, Joseph J. Simeone, and .

See how the CD was made:

 

Inspired by 's novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features a book by , music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. The musical was billed as a "dramatic retelling of the famous love story on a grand scale, with a lush, emotionally rich score."

First Pics of Michael Arden, Patrick Page, Ciara Ren茅e and Andrew Samonsky in Paper Mill's Hunchback of Notre Dame

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The rights to The Hunchback of Notre Dame are now available for professional theatre productions, licensed exclusively through Music Theatre International at .

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