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Following record-breaking runs at New York Theatre Workshop and Canada's Citadel Theatre, Hadestown comes to the National Theatre prior to Broadway.
Check out the photos from rehearsals below!
In the warmth of summertime, songwriter Orpheus and his muse Eurydice are living it up and falling in love. But as winter approaches, reality sets in: these young dreamers can't survive on songs alone. Tempted by the promise of plenty, Eurydice is lured to the depths of industrial Hadestown. On a quest to save her, Orpheus journeys to the underworld where their trust in each other is put to a final test.
Celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin have transformed Mitchell's acclaimed concept album into a genre-defying new musical that mixes modern American folk music with vintage New Orleans jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale.
The cast includes Sharif Afifi, Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Rosie Fletcher, Amber Gray, Beth Hinton-Lever, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Eva Noblezada, Seyi Omooba, Gloria Onitiri, Patrick Page, Aiesha Pease, Joseph Prouse, Jordan Shaw and Shaq Taylor.
Directed by Rachel Chavkin, with set design by Rachel Hauck, costume design by Michael Krass, lighting design by Bradley King, sound design byNevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz, choreography by David Neumann, musical direction and vocal arrangements by Liam Robinson, orchestrations and arrangements by Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose, with Ken Cerniglia as dramaturg.
Photo Credit: Helen Maybanks
Andre DeShields, Carly Mercedes Dyer, Gloria Onitiri, Rosie Fletcher
Andre DeShields
Company
Amber Gray, Anais Mitchell, and Reeve Carney
Company
Rosie Fletcher, David Neumann, Eva Noblezada, Carly Mercedes Dyer
Eva Noblezada and Patrick Page
Andre DeShields and Rachel Chavkin
Liam Robinson with Sharif Afifi, Joseph Prouse, Jordan Shaw, Aiesha Pease, and Beth Hinton-Lever
Shaq Taylor and Beth Hinton-Lever
Carly Mercedes Dyer, Gloria Onitiri, and Rosie Fletcher
Sharif Afifi with David Neumann
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