Shows · Hadestown
Hadestown
Opened 2019
1,700 performances
Musical, Contemporary
Tony Award for Best Musical, 2019
In a Depression-era setting inspired by Greek mythology, young dreamer Orpheus falls in love with the pragmatic Eurydice. When Eurydice follows the wealthy industrialist king Hades down to his underground factory-kingdom of Hadestown to escape poverty and winter, Orpheus must journey to the underworld and use nothing but his voice and his song to try to bring her back to the world above.
- Music
- Anais Mitchell
- Lyrics
- Anais Mitchell
- Book
- Anais Mitchell
Productions3 productions: 1 on Broadway, 2 in the West End
Songs5 songs
Wait for Me, Road to Hell, Why We Build the Wall, Epic III, Flowers
Recordings 11 recordings
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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…
Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.