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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.
The musical Hadestown, written by American singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and based on her 2010 studio album of the same name, has had two official cast recordings.In addition, various songs from Hadestown were re-recorded by Mitchell for her 2014 studio album Xoa, including the musical's opening number "Anyway the Wind Blows" which had not appeared on the original concept album.
The four shows come after Mitchell’s scruffy, imaginative folk opera arrived on Broadway in 2019, winning eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. 'Hadestown' comes home: Five things to know as ...
Page played Hades in productions of Hadestown at the New York Theatre Workshop, at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, [13] and at London's Royal National Theatre. [14] He reprised the role of Hades on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre beginning in March 2019, [ 15 ] receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical ...
Having such notable performers in the role colors the job of directing "Hadestown" as a live musical. A 2022 interview with Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin, who won a Tony Award for Best Direction of ...
Hadestown is the fourth studio album by American folk singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, and was released by Righteous Babe Records on March 9, 2010. The concept album, which became the basis for the stage musical of the same name, follows a variation on the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where Orpheus must embark on a quest to rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld.
Yvette González-Nacer is a Cuban-American actress, singer-songwriter, musician and producer. She is best known for originating the role of Fate in the original Broadway production of the Grammy and Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown, starring in the first Broadway National Tour of Moulin Rouge!, and starring as Kiki on Nickelodeon's Emmy Award Winning TV series The Fresh Beat Band.
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