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A show about a journey to Hell and back is the best musical of the year. ''Hadestown'' won eight awards Sunday. Tonys full winners list: 'Hadestown,' 'The Ferryman' take home top prizes [Video]
Allison Russell, the Grammy-winning Americana artist, is coming back up from the underground. On Sunday night, she finishes up a 15-week run in Broadway’s “Hadestown,” which has left her ...
Everett, whose acclaimed 2001 novel Erasure was turned into the Oscar-nominated 2023 film American Fiction, is a modern literary star and James is another lacerating, smart novel. (Mantle) (Mantle ...
Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell.It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.
Her album Hadestown, produced by Todd Sickafoose, was released in spring 2010 to favorable reviews. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Described as "the story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in post-apocalyptic Depression-era America, [ 22 ] the album includes guest appearances by Ani DiFranco , Greg Brown , Justin Vernon of Bon Iver , Ben Knox Miller of The Low Anthem ...
Hadestown was the most awarded show of the season, with eight including Best Musical. The Ferryman won four awards, including Best Play . Musicals The Cher Show and Tootsie , the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Oklahoma! , and the new play Ink each won two awards.
The show weaves together two love stories from ancient Greek mythology: Orpheus and Eurydice, and god of the underworld Hades and his wife Persephone.
De Shields has appeared in the original Broadway casts of multiple stage productions, including The Full Monty, Warp!, and The Wiz, and most recently and notably originating the role of Hermes on Broadway in the musical Hadestown, winning the 2019 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best ...