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Quasimodo saw the crowd and felt a genuine smile cross his face. "Wow! What a sight," he thought. A cloaked choir was already singing, "Come, one! Come, all! Leave your looms and milking stools! Coop the hens and pen the mules! Come, one! Come, all! Close the churches and the schools! It's the day for breaking rules. (Quasimodo swings from a piece of rope towards the cloaked choir.) Come and join the Feast- Of-" (Clopin enters the scene and starts leading the song.) "Fools! (Cheerful laughter can be heard from him.) Once a year, we throw a party here in town! Once a year, we turn all Paris upside-down! Every man's a king and every king's a clown! Once again, it's Topsy-Turvy Day! It's the day the devil in us gets released! It's the day we mock the pig and shock the priest! Everything is Topsy-Turvy at the Feast of Fools! (Choir: Topsy-Turvy!) Everything is upsy-daisy! (Choir: Topsy-Turvy!) Everyone is acting crazy! Dross is gold and weeds are a bouquet! That's the way on Topsy-Turvy Day! (Quasimodo accidentally crashes in Esmeralda's dressing room after dancing with Clopin and a group of dancers.)

Upon entering the dressing room, Esmeralda gasped at the sudden guest seeing her exposed fur, despite the curtain he dragged down while tumbling covering part of his face. "Are you all right," she asked. Quasimodo heavily blushed at the vixen's full frontal and responded, "I didn't mean to. I'm sorry." Djali strongly blushed and covered Esmeralda with a robe. "Out," he yelled. Esmeralda gestured Djali to keep calm as she smiled at the hunchback. "I'll handle this man, Djali," she whispered to him. (Esmeralda walks up to the man.) "Well, you're not hurt, are you? Here, here, let's see," she said. Quasimodo nervously looked and answered, "No." Djali gagged at the face and thought, "What is that face? I hope it's just a mask." Esmeralda kept smiling and told him, "See? No harm done. Just try to be a little more careful." "I-I will," mumbled Quasimodo, who wouldn't forget the first full frontal he would see. "By the way, great mask," she said with a grin to him. Quasimodo smiled again at the flattering compliment from her, but he knew he did not need a mask.

As Quasimodo turned to his left, he saw the festival resume where it left off. Once again, Clopin and a choir can be heard. "Topsy-Turvy!" "Beat the drums and blow the trumpets!" "Topsy-Turvy!" "Join the bums and thieves and strumpets!" "Streaming in from Chartres to Calais!" "Scurvy knaves are extra scurvy, on the Sixth of Janu-ervy!" "All because it's Topsy-Turvy Day!" After transporting Frollo and company to the Feast of Fools, Phoebus stood next to Achilles to guard Frollo, along with watch the festival. "Come, one! Come, all," called Clopin, who continued the vocals. "Hurry, hurry! Here's your chance! (He appears next to Frollo, who looks surprised.) See the mystery and romance~! Come, one! Come, all! See the finest girl in France! Make an entrance to entrance... Dance La Esmeralda... (A smoke bomb hits the stage.) Dance!" Upon her cue, the busty vixen danced in front of the crowd with a mix of red, gold, and purple fabrics consisting of her provocative outfit. Frollo looked horrified at the flirtatious vixen he saw. Achilles' horsecock twitched at the sight of her curves, while Phoebus would have been surprised.

"Look at that disgusting display," said Frollo. (Phoebus begins blushing at the sight as he recognizes the foxy fur within the dancer.) "Yes, sir," Phoebus replied with a smile for Esmeralda. Achilles himself panted from the seductive curves he saw. "My God, she's hot," he thought. Esmeralda made a move and danced to Frollo, who she tugged closer to him with a cloth and kissed his old nose. Frollo heavily blushed for a bit, only to watch her suddenly leave, as if she just teased him. "Curse you, Esmeralda," thought Frollo. For the next part of her dance, Esmeralda snatched a guard's spear who was awestruck and pole danced around the spear with a smile for the men. The crowd went even wilder at the vixen's performance and threw coins on the stage to tip her. "And now, ladies and gentlemen, the piece de resistance," announced Clopin. (The final part of his song begins.) "Here it is! The moment you've been waiting for! Here it is! You know exactly what's in store! Now's the time we laugh until our sides get sore! Now's the time we crown the King of Fools!"

(Clopin waves for the previous King of Fools who won to come.) "You all remember last year's king," Clopin asked the crowd. (The old King of Fools comes up on stage.) "So make a face that's horrible and frightening! Make a face that's gruesome as a gargoyle's wing! (Hugo looks down and feels insulted. "Hey," he said.) For the face that's ugliest will be the King of Fools: Why? (Choir: Topsy-Turvy!) Ugly folks, forget your shyness! (Choir: Topsy-Turvy!) You could soon be called Your Highness!" (The whole crowds sings with him.) "Put your foulest features on display! Be the King of Topsy-Turvy Day!" (Esmeralda brings Quasimodo to the stage. She starts taking off each mask. Upon reaching Quasimodo, she immediately froze as she tugged on his cheeks.) "My God! That was never a mask I saw earlier," she thought with a horrified facial expression as he covered his face. The crowd was equally disturbed by the surprise contestant and immediately recognized it was Quasimodo. Clopin had to compromise, so he told the crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen, don't panic. We asked for the ugliest face... in Paris, and here it is! Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame!"

The crowd expressed a big night and day difference as they celebrated their new king. "Ev-'ry-bo-dy," Clopin sang. (The crowd sings with him once again.) "Once a year, we throw a party here in town! (Clopin: Hail to the king!) Once a year, we turn all Paris upside-down! (Clopin: Oh, what a king!) Once a year, the ugliest will wear a crown! (Clopin: Girls, give a kiss! [Two women kiss Quasimodo's cheeks.]) Once a year, on Topsy-Turvy Day! (Clopin: We never had a king like this!)" Frollo looked with irritation and utmost hatred at the celebration he saw. "He'll have to learn the hard way," he thought. (The crowd starts singing in unison.) "And it's the day we do the things that we deplore! On the other three hundred and sixty-four! Once a year we love to drop in, where the beer is never stopping! For the chance to pop some popinjay! And pick a king who put the "top" in Topsy-Turvy, Topsy-Turvy! Mad-and-Crazy, Upsy-daisy, Topsy-Turvy Day!" (Every gargoyle can be seen celebrating Quasimodo's happiest moment.)

"Quasimodo," chanted the crowd. Even at the peak of happiness, Brutus and Patrick, two of Frollo's baddest guys who were guards, had a plan to humiliate Quasimodo. "You think he's ugly now," teased Patrick. "Watch this." (A tomato is thrown at Quasimodo's face. The crowd gasps at the scene.) "Now that's ugly," he scoffed. "Hail to the king," scoffed Brutus, who threw another tomato at the hunchback. Most of the crowd shifted gears once again and continued with the humiliation. Quasimodo was horrified by the outburst and the torment he was receiving. Next thing he know, he was bound to a wheel and spun as the crowd threw many produces at his face. Esmeralda, who recently got done changing, was shocked by the sadistic human torturing the hunchback. "I must stop this," she thought. "Master! Master, please, help me," begged Quasimodo. Frollo, who was watching the torment, turned a blind eye to him. Phoebus, who was fed up, turned to Frollo and gave a sickened look to him. "Sir, request permission to stop this cruelty," he asked. "In a moment, Captain. A lesson needs to be learned here," answered Frollo.

Esmeralda stepped on the stage and quietly nuzzled Quasimodo. "Don't be afraid," she said. "I'm sorry. This wasn't supposed to happen." Frollo angrily looks at the vixen and shouts, "You! Gypsy girl! Get down at once!" Esmeralda stayed calm and answered, "Yes, Your Honor. Just as soon as I free him." "I forbid it," declared Frollo. Esmeralda got out a knife to cut the ropes, liberating the man. "How dare you defy me," said Frollo. Esmeralda angrily growled at the man. "You mistreat this poor boy the same way you mistreat my people. You speak of justice, yet you are cruel to those most in need of your help," she said. "Silence," argued Frollo. "Justice," protested Esmeralda. (The crowd gasps at the second defiance, as well as her assisting Quasimodo with standing on his feet.) "Mark my words, Gypsy. You will pay for this insolence," warned Frollo. Esmeralda shared sarcastic laughter and said, "Then it appears we've crowned the wrong fool. The only fool I see is you," she said as she threw the crown to a closer range of Frollo's vision.

Frollo was steaming from the mockery and her defiance. "Captain Phoebus, arrest her," he commanded. Phoebus gestured ten guards to capture the criminal vixen. Esmeralda slowly counted the numbers of guards and started crying. "What's a poor girl to do," she wept. As soon as she blew her nose, a cloud of smoke was seen. Frollo recognized the caliber of gypsies he carefully watched for 20 years. "Witchcraft," he whispered to himself. After disappearing without any trace from the abruptly destroyed Feast of Fools, Frollo angrily glared at Quasimodo, who bore a frown. "You-," he thought with newfound resentment. The crowd went silent as they noticed clouds forming, once the scene reached an end. Frollo got on his feral horse and told Phoebus, "Find her, Captain. I want her alive!" Phoebus gave a nod of agreement to the terms. "Yes, sir," he responded. (Phoebus turns to the guards.) "Seal off the area, men. Find the gypsy girl and do not harm her." Frollo then went to Quasimodo, who shamefully looked up in his eyes. "I'm sorry, Master," Quasimodo said while rain washed off the remaining produce as he returned to the cathedral. (All gargoyles can be seen praying as they watch Quasimodo step in.) After taking one last look outside, Quasimodo shut the door with tears in his eyes.

To Be Continued