Quasimodo, the last great unproduced musical by Oliver! composer Lionel Bart, is getting its World Premiere, 50 years after it was written, tonight! In a major coup for the King’s Head Theatre in London, Quasimodo will play for a 4-week season until Saturday 13th April.
Steven Webb plays the title role of Quasimodo, the tragic Parisian hunchback, deafened by the bells of Notre Dame. Steven has appeared in the West End several times, playing Posner in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys at the National Theatre and Wyndhams, starring in the musical Betwixt! at Trafalgar Studios, and appeared in the title role in Lionel Bart’s Oliver! at the London Palladium as a child actor in 1999.
Speaking to West End Frame during a recent interview, Steven said "Quasimodo is a really exciting project because nobody knows the material even though it was written 50 years ago. There’s pressure that comes with it as well because you know that it is gold dust and was composed in the last century."
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