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4 unusual facts about Quasimodo


Feast of Fools

Victor Hugo recreated a picturesque account of a Feast of Fools in his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which Quasimodo serves as King of Fools.

Greaser's Palace

Robert Downey, Jr., the son of the writer-director of the film, has an uncredited role as a Quasimodo-like child.

Jeff Whiting

He made his first professional appearance in 1996 as Quasimodo in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame at Disney/MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida.

Ron Pederson

In September 2009 he starred in the Dora Award Nominated Mimi: The Poisoners Comedy at the Tarragon Theatre and then returned to the Citadel Theatre in 2011 playing Quasimodo in Catalyst Theatre's production of Hunchback, a role that he would reprise in Vancouver in 2012.


Arthur Goring Thomas

(Creator cast: Georgina Burns (Esmeralda): Barton McGuckin (Phoebus): William Ludwig (Frollo): Leslie Crotty (Quasimodo): Clara Perry (Fleur-de-Lys): Leah Don (Lois): J.H. Stilliard (Chevreuse): Ben Davies (Gringoire): G.H. Snazelle (Clopin).

Cirque d'été

The fourth program on 6 April was billed as a séance Berlioz and included the overture from Weber's Freischütz, excerpts from Berlioz's symphonies Harold en Italie and Roméo et Juliette, and Quasimodo's aria with chorus from Louise Bertin's opera La Esmeralda sung by the tenor Jean-Étienne-Auguste Massol, who had created the role at the Paris Opera in 1836.

E.M.T.

E.M.T. extended gradually their musical language, included guests from time to time and played many concerts in venues as the Fabrik Hamburg, Quasimodo Berlin, Festival Antwerp.

Mina and the Count

Jeff Bennett - Igor: Count's Quasimodo-like servant who wears sandals and green clothes and always has a maniacal laugh.

Octave of Easter

In Chile, mainly in Santiago Metropolitan Region, on Quasimodo Sunday is celebrated the Cuasimodo Feast.

Quasimodo, protagonist of the 1831 French novel Notre Dame de Paris (most often called in English The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo, was found abandoned on the doorsteps of Notre Dame Cathedral on the Sunday after Easter, AD 1467.

Shrek SuperSlam

Characters like Black Night,G-mome, Quasimodo, Anthrax, and the Witch named Luna weren't in any of the Shrek movies but Humpty Dumpty was in Puss in Boots.

Tó Cruz

Cruz went on to be the voice of Quasimodo in the Portuguese version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Garrett in Quest for Camelot.


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