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Hadestown, 2019

Shows · Hadestown · Walter Kerr Theatre, 2019

Hadestown
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Hadestown and could document any of its runs. None
Original BroadwayTodd Haimes Theatre 1,700 performances8 Tony Awards

The run dates incomplete

Opened
2019
Closed
Unknown
Performances
1,700
Previews
Unknown

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 7th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

No closing date. At this distance that most likely means nobody wrote down when it ended, rather than that the run went on.

Other stagings of Hadestown 2 more that season

2024 Transfer Transfer
2025 Transfer Transfer

Who was in it47 named

Kay Trinidad
Timothy Hughes
Kimberly Marable
Joshua Colley
Emily Afton
Alex Puette
Morgan Dudley
Lana Gordon
Hailey Kilgore
John-Michael Lyles
Stephanie Mills
Myra Molloy
Solea Pfeiffer
Trent Saunders
Paulo Szot
Carlos Valdes
Lillias White
Amelia Cormack
Belen Moyano
Shea Renne
Soara Joye Ross
Mariand Torres
Brit West
Anthony Chatmon Ii
Chibueze Ihuoma
Timothy H Lee
Eddie Noel Rodriguez
Kim Steele
Grace Yoo

26 of these 47 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
Rachel Chavkin
Choreographer
David Neumann
Orchestrations
Michael Chorney

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 8 from 14 nominations

Best Musical Won

Recordings 11 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Hadestown, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It blends versions of two ancient Greek myths, Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and Persephone, to explore enduring and contemporary themes. The story begins with Eurydice, a hungry young girl, going to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and a poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus proposing to her. The original sung-through version of the musical was performed in Barre and Vergennes, Vermont, in 2006, followed by a tour in Vermont and Massachusetts in 2007. Mitchell, unsure about the future of the musical, turned it into a concept album, released in 2010. In 2012, Mit…

Broadway legend André De Shields came out about living with HIV for three decades while starring on Broadway in Hadestown in early 2020. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 187

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • Which of the 11 recordings of Hadestown document this run, if any.
  • When it closed.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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