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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.
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.
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.
In addition to its 2022-'23 Broadway season, the Marcus Center will host Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, "Hip Hop Nutcracker" and more.
When it closed on January 13, 2002, it had run for 42 years and 17,162 performances, making it the world's longest-running musical. The current longest-running musical on Broadway is The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in 1988 and played its final performance in 2023. [129] M denotes a musical and P denotes a straight play.
Yola on the ‘Gig Energy’ of Playing Persephone in Broadway’s ‘Hadestown,’ and Why She’s Taking a Turn in Her Music Career to Do Things Her Way Chris Willman October 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
This stripped back album included some songs from Hadestown which were recorded for the first time in Mitchell's own voice, as well as three brand new songs. In summer 2016, the newly expanded theatrical version of Hadestown opened at New York Theatre Workshop [ 31 ] with Vogue magazine predicting that " Hadestown will be your next musical ...
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.