Andrew Rogers and the Hunchback of Notre Dame

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The Music House Museum is proud to welcome organist Andrew Rogers accompanying the 1923 silent classic “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, starring Lon Chaney Friday October 14 at 7:00PM and Saturday October 15 at 7:00PM

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in Paris in 1482. The main character, Quasimodo is a deaf, half-blind, hunchbacked bell-ringer of the famous Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. His master is a man named Jehan, the evil brother of Notre Dame’s saintly archdeacon Dom Claude. One night, Jehan prevails upon Quasimodo to kidnap the fair Esmeralda, a dancing Roma girl (and the adopted daughter of Clopin, the king of the oppressed beggars of Paris’ underworld).

The movie is notable for the grand sets that recall 15th century Paris as well as for Chaney’s performance and make-up as the tortured hunchback bellringer Quasimodo.

The film will be accompanied by Andrew Rogers on our ‘Mighty’Wurlitzer theater organ. Rogers, a Detroit native, is an organist at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. He also scores and performs silent films, and performs concerts throughout the U.S. and Internationally.