Phil Steinberg

Review of Weathervane Playhouse

Go see the Hunchback of Notre Dame, this is a prod...

Go see the Hunchback of Notre Dame, this is a production you don't want to miss. It felt like we were at a Broadway theatre and the cast had been putting this show on for weeks, not days. Marissa Leenaarts, Ed Ridley, Jason Smith and rest of the creative team knew how to put together a spectacular cast, and they got all the actors to give the performance that when the intermission and then the end came, you could here the people around us saying "WOW". Tony Heffner played Quasimodo with skill and sang his songs and you really felt that he was Quasimodo in some past life. Thomas Baumgardner had to feal thrilled with his performance, I know that he was perfectly cast for the role of Frollo. And then came Brooke Lytton, as Esmeralda, she captured our hearts in seconds, especially when she sang duets with Quasimodo and Phoebus Du Marin, played by one of our favorite Weathervane stars, Jonathan Merechant. We have watched Jonathan play starring roles for years, and the experience from those many roles was evident in the performance he gave us today. Keep expanding Johnathan, can't wait to see you on the big screen some day! As far as the rest of the cast, All I have to say is "WOW!".