maybe we'll skip the cartwheel, brooke

rotating audience 360° hunchback of notre dame my beloved...

as @frankwildhorn already said, this was a really enjoyable production :] i like rotating audience stuff, i've been to this theatre once before and it's a cool effect every time. they used it to their advantage in ensemble scenes (bringing the choir up on the rotating platform with us, so the "morality tale" part came across Heightened)

clopin was really great, loved esmeralda which is always my #1 priority, no complaints about anyone else 😆 phoebus was funny and kind of camp. quasimodo and frollo were alright/good. with this show i'm always really into all of the songs and every actor really delivered (not a guarantee in finland kssk).

The 360 open air stuff also made me feel really immersed, like I was in a late medieval marketplace watching this unfold. Worked especially well in clocktower scenes and the stuff that happened outside the Notre Dame. They also couldn't do any overly technical magic tricks for Esmeralda so the rather simple but thick enough smoke effects felt realistic.

The costuming and sets were not cartoonish at all but also did not depart too much from what I would expect with this show.

Overall, it was just nice - easy to follow, interesting and thought-out, cool stuff happening on stage :D my only complaints are that the tambourine dance could have been sexier (choreographies in general were not that good skks) and hellfire could have been freakier (he was just alone on stage belting it out and we got some pope got elected type smoke from four pipes ksks. i was hoping for something freaky to happen during the second verse).