This Friday and Saturday!

The Shamokin Area High School Music Department will present Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame on Friday, April 10th and Saturday, April 11th at 7:00 PM in the Shamokin Area High School Auditorium. Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney animated feature, The Hunchback of Notre Dame showcases the film’s Academy Award-nominated score, as well as new songs by Menken and Schwartz.

The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in fifteenth-century Paris. Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer who longs to be "Out There," observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, the archdeacon Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the beautiful Romani woman, Esmeralda. Quasimodo isn’t the only one captivated by her free spirit, though – the handsome Captain Phoebus and Frollo are equally enthralled. As the three vie for her attention, Frollo embarks on a mission to destroy the Roma – and it’s up to Quasimodo to save them all.

Cast members are Bennet Elio as Quasimodo, Ronin Elio as Phoebus De Martin, Gabriel Gillam as Dom Claude Frollo, Kylee Cunningham as Esmeralda and Jess Hadfield as Clopin Trouillefou. 

Other cast members include: Mia Anderson, Noah Allison, Rylee Bickert, Makayla Eyster, Delilah Foulds, Kendra Jones, Mia Joseph, Leah Knoeppel, Samantha Krajewski, Molly Kurtz, Kendra Magee, Hunter Lebo, Abbigail Long, Brian McCollick, Autumn Peifer, Kennedy Snyder, Ella Stoshack, Landon Swinehart, Michaela Wilson, Cooper Whitmer, Lisa Woods and Makiya Zaleskie.

Production Staff includes Kevin Styer, Director; Sharon Styer, Assistant Director; Amanda Lebo, Production Assistant; Destiny Smith, Choreographer; Daniel Shuman and Ken Kuznicki, Set Construction; Sandy Krebs and Lisa Shappell, Costumes and Ben Anderson and Ryan Shevitski, Sound and Lighting Technicians.

All tickets for the production are $12 and can be purchased online at https://cur8.com/20122/project/136949 or at the Shamokin Area High School Business Office between 8 am-2 pm or by calling 570-648-5731 ext. 4114 for more information.  All seats are reserved so get your tickets early.