Show Synopsis:
Judge Claude Frollo is forced to raise a hunchback baby he names Quasimodo, who becomes a bell ringer for Notre Dame and never leaves the cathedral. He is encouraged by his only friends, three living stone gargoyles, to go to the Festival of Fools, where the beautiful and magical gypsy Esmeralda saves him from a riot. Esmeralda runs to Notre Dame to escape being arrested for witchcraft and befriends Quasimodo, who begins to fall in love with her. Frollo falls in love with her as well, and when she escapes the cathedral, he orders a manhunt across the entire city. Phoebus has fallen in love with Esmeralda as well, and when he defies Frollo's orders he flees his arrest. He and Esmeralda go to the cathedral for refuge, but Frollo tricks Quasimodo and Phoebus to leading him to the gypsy community, and he captures them all. Frollo chains Quasimodo up and prepares to burn Esmeralda at the stake, but Quasimodo escapes and rescues her. Phoebus frees himself and leads gypsies and other Parisians in mob against Frollo. Frollo breaks into the cathedral, fights Quasimodo, and dies. Phoebus and Esmeralda declare their love for each other and Quasimodo is considered a hero, and not a monster, by all of Paris.

Character:
Quasimodo, an outcast hunchback hidden away from the world; a dreamer with a good heart that no one seems to see.

Song Context:
Quasimodo imagines a better and happier life waiting for him outside of Notre Dame, although Frollo insists that he is protecting Quasimodo by providing for him and restricting him to the cathedral. Quasimodo wonders if he can really call this church his sanctuary if he is so unhappy.

Fun Facts:
1. This movie was based on Victor Hugo's novel of the same name, though many liberties were taken with the plot to make it more suitable for children. 
2. Lyricist Stephen Schwartz entered Notre Dame early one morning, before the general admission crowds, while on a field trip to Paris for research for this movie. He looked down at Paris from the bell tower, just as Quasimodo does in the movie, and wrote the ideas and impressions of what Quasimodo would have seen "out there, and that became the song "Out There." 
3. In this adaptation of the novel, the creators wanted to highlight Quasimodo as an angel traveled in the body of a devil, who cannot reconcile the world of heaven that he is a part of as a bell ringer of Notre Dame, and the gritty hellish streets of the Parisian common people.