Photo by T Charles Erickson Hadestown Tour 10-01-21 898 Photo by T Charles Erickson (L-R) Morgan Siobhan Green and Nicholas Barasch in the “Hadestown” North American Tour. (L-R) Nicholas Barasch and Morgan Siobhan Green in the “Hadestown” North American Tour. The winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best New Musical and the 2020 Grammy ® Award for Best Musical Theater Album, “Hadestown” is hailed by the Los Angeles Times’ Charles McNulty as, “Quite simply one of the most exquisite works of musical storytelling I’ve seen in my more than 25 years as a theatre critic.” In addition to the show’s eight Tony Awards, it has been honored with six Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, four Drama Desk Awards, and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. Photo by T Charles Erickson Nicholas Barasch and Company in the “Hadestown” North American Tour. Photo by T Charles Erickson “Hadestown” North American Tour. Kimberly Marable and Company in the “Hadestown” North American Tour. This haunting and hopeful epic production will play through May 29. Originally set to play in Los Angeles in 2020, the most honored show of the 2018-2019 Broadway season will finally make its West Coast debut. The acclaimed new musical is by celebrated singer-songwriter and Tony Award ® winner Anaïs Mitchell and developed with innovative director and Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin. at Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre. Photographs by T Charles Erickson.The Los Angeles engagement of “ Hadestown” opens Wednesday, April 27 at 8 p.m. Music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell*ġ35 North Grand Avenue, downtown Los AngelesĪnaïs Mitchell, Hadestown, North American tour, through July 2023, directed by Rachel Chavkin, from top: Morgan Siobhan Green (foreground left) and Nicholas Barasch, with Shea Renne (background left), Bex Odorisio, and Belén Moyano Levi Kreis and Company Kimberly Marable and Company Kevyn Morrow Renne, Odorisio, and Moyano Hadestown Company Morrow, Barasch, and Marable Barasch and Green. HADESTOWN is directed by Rachel Chavkin, a key participant in its development. It’s an old song… It’s a sad song… But we keep singin’ even so… * But rather succumb to the ineradicable power of fate and silence, Orpheus leaves his song unfinished, notes in a continuum for others to join: Lyrical echoes of our current, slow-motion disaster-the environmental destruction of a planet staring at a capitalist-fascist apocalypse-resonate throughout the show. Strange and wonderful melodies run askew with jagged hooks to drag us in. Set in what could be a decaying New Orleans saloon, the show could just as easily play in a midsummer’s forest or an art deco metropolis. Hermes ( Levi Kreis) shows up to MC the proceedings and the three Fates ( Shea Renne, Bex Odorisio, and Belén Moyano) bring down the house (“When the Chips Are Down”). Meanwhile, Hades ( Kevyn Morrow) and Persephone ( Kimberly Marable) struggle with issues political and personal-she spends six months of each year in the underworld and the other six in bloom. Orpheus, Hadestown*Īs the 2022 theater season progresses and the post-pandemic audience emerges to frequent old haunts, a sense of community-onstage and off-is happily reborn at the Ahmanson with the long-awaited production of HADESTOWN, Anaïs Mitchell’s raucous remix of several mythological tales in highly imaginative musical form.Īn earnest, determined Eurydice ( Morgan Siobhan Green) crosses paths with Orpheus ( Nicholas Barasch), a sort of idiot savant with a magical voice. T o the world we dream about and the one we live in now.
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