Great Lakes stages polished, stirringly rendered ‘Hunchback’ Bob Abelman Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal Member, International Association of Theatre Critics There’s something so 1980s about the musical “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” currently in production by Great Lakes Theater. Although a new musical – it made its debut as a co-production of San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse in 2014 and New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse in 2015 – “Hunchback’s” defining features make it very much a throwback to the heyday of 1980’s mega-musicals like “Les Misérables” and “The Phantom of the Opera.” For more of this article, go to www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/.