| Hadestown | |
|---|---|
 Broadway promotional poster | |
| Music | Anaïs Mitchell |
| Lyrics | Anaïs Mitchell |
| Book | Anaïs Mitchell |
| Basis | Orpheus and Eurydice |
| Productions | 2016 Off-Broadway 2017 Edmonton 2018 London 2019 Broadway 2021 North American Tour 2024 West End |
| Awards | Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Original Score Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album |
Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.
The original sung-through version of the musical was performed in the town of Barre, Vermont, in 2006, followed by Vergennes, Vermont the same year and 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.[1]
In 2012, Mitchell met director Rachel Chavkin, and the two reworked the stage version, with additional songs and dialogue. The new version of the musical, directed by Chavkin, premiered off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop on May 6, 2016, and ran through July 31. Following productions in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and London, England, the show premiered on Broadway in 2019. The Broadway production received critical acclaim. At the 73rd Tony Awards, Hadestown received 14 nominations (the most that year) and won eight, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
- ^ Browne, David (June 1, 2019). "The Hell With Broadway: The Story of Anais Mitchell's Hadestown". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved August 15, 2019.