HADESTOWN's Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose Win 2019 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations

Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose have won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for HADESTOWN.

Chorney is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and orchestrator. He has produced over 30 records for other artists as well 15 recordings of original works. He has been involved with Hadestown, his first work for the stage, since its inception. He lives and works in Lincoln, Vermont and is music director for dance at Middlebury College.

Sickafoose is a composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, bandleader and double bassist. He produced, co-arranged and performed on the original Hadestown album, co-produced the Off-Broadway Hadestown Live Original Cast Recording and produced and arranged Anais Mitchell's album Young Man in America. Since 2004, Sickafoose has performed internationally with Ani DiFranco. Writing for his band Tiny Resistors, he recently created Bear Proof, a chamber jazz hybrid commissioned by the Doris Duke Foundation.

HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales - that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone - as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Anais Mitchell's beguiling melodies and Rachel Chavkin's poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, Hadestown is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.