Shows · Hadestown · Walter Kerr Theatre, 2019
Hadestown, 2019
Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 7th longest run.
Other stagings of Hadestown 2 more
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
Creative team
- Director
- Rachel Chavkin
- Choreographer
- David Neumann
- Orchestrations
- Michael Chorney
Tony Awards 8 from 14 nominations
Recordings 3 released while this run was on
8 more exist for other runs of this show: see Hadestown for all of them.
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
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