“I MISSED YA.”
2019 TONY AWARD®-WINNING BEST NEW MUSICAL
“HADESTOWN”
WELCOMES TONY AWARD NOMINEE
PATRICK PAGE
BACK TO THE UNDERGROUND
TOMORROW, NOVEMBER 9
Tomorrow, original Broadway cast member Patrick Page returns to Hadestown, the 2019 Tony Award®-winning Best New Musical. For his performance as Hades, king of the underworld, Page received a Grammy Award® and Tony Award nomination. He has also played the role in Hadestown’s world premiere at New York Theatre Workshop, Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre, and at London’s National Theatre.
Tickets for Hadestown on Broadway are available at www.seatgeek.com/hadestown-tickets or by visiting the Walter Kerr Theatre box office (219 West 48th Street).
Joining Page in the Broadway cast of Hadestown’s are Grammy Award® winner Reeve Carney as Orpheus, Tony Award winner André De Shields as Hermes, Tony Award nominee Amber Gray, and two-time Tony Award nominee Eva Noblezada as Eurydice. They are joined by Jewelle Blackman, Jessie Shelton, and Mariand Torres as the Fates and Lana Gordon as the Persephone alternate. The chorus of Workers is played by Malcolm Armwood, Timothy Hughes, Trent Saunders, Kim Steele, and Khaila Wilcoxon. The cast includes swings Tara Jackson, Sayo Oni, Yael “YaYa” Reich, and T. Oliver Reid.
Hadestown is written by celebrated singer-songwriter and Tony Award® winner Anaïs Mitchell and developed with innovative director and Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin.
Following two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and 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 delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience.
The show originated as Mitchell’s indie theater project that toured Vermont which she then turned into an acclaimed album. With Chavkin, her artistic collaborator, Hadestown has been transformed into a genre-defying new musical that blends modern American folk music with New Orleans-inspired jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale. Welcome to Hadestown, “Broadway’s epic celebration of music, togetherness, and hope.” (Forbes).
Hadestown was the most honored show of the 2018-2019 season. In addition to the show’s eight Tony Awards, it has been honored with four Drama Desk Awards, six Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. The show is already the highest-grossing musical in the history of the Walter Kerr Theatre.
Hadestown marks the first time in over a decade that a woman has been the solo author of a musical: writing the music, lyrics, and book, and is the fourth time in Broadway history a woman has accomplished this creative feat. It also marks the first time in Broadway history that a show’s female composer and female director both won Tony Awards for their work.
The creative team for Broadway features Tony Award winner Rachel Hauck (set design), four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Krass (costume design), two-time Tony Award winner Bradley King (lighting design), Tony Award winners Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz (sound design), Obie Award® winner and Chita Rivera Award® winner David Neumann (choreography), Liam Robinson (music direction and vocal arrangements), Tony Award winners Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose (arrangements and orchestrations), Ken Cerniglia (dramaturgy), and Stewart/Whitley (casting).
The North American tour is now playing Boston’s Citizens Bank Opera House through November 14 and will play over 30 cities in its first season with more to be announced shortly. For the latest tour route and other information, please visit: www.hadestown.com/tour
The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Hadestown is also available on CD and streaming. The album was released digitally in the summer of 2019, and topped Billboard’s Broadway Cast Recording chart, and debuted at #8 on the Top Album chart. The CD edition features a 64-page booklet and a two-disc set, while the triple vinyl edition features a 16-page booklet. Both editions include complete song lyrics and never before seen photos of the Hadestown cast and creative team in the studio, and other exclusive content.
In the fall of 2020, Mitchell released Working On A Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown, an illuminating book of lyrics and stories about her more than decade’s long process of building the musical from the ground up. Working On A Song is available from Penguin Random House.
Hadestown electrified audiences with its 2016 world premiere at New York Theatre Workshop, which is the longest-running show in that celebrated theater’s 40-year history. The production then received its Canadian premiere at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre in 2017 and then a 2018 sold-out engagement at the London’s National Theatre prior to Broadway. Hadestown was developed with funding from the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage at the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center and was further developed by The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Hadestown was co-conceived by Ben t. Matchstick.
Patrick Page (Hades) received a Tony Award nomination for his performance of Hades after originating the role at NYTW, the Citadel, and Royal National Theatre, UK. Broadway: Saint Joan, Spring Awakening, Casa Valentina, Time to Kill, Cyrano De Bergerac, An Act of God, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, Man for All Seasons, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Julius Caesar, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Kentucky Cycle. Television and film: In the Heights, Spirited (upcoming), “The Gilded Age” (upcoming), The Sixth Reel, “Evil,” “Elementary,” “NCIS New Orleans,” “Chicago PD,” “Madame Secretary,” “The Blacklist,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Flesh and Bone.” Page is an associate artist of The Old Globe and Shakespeare Theater Company of D.C.
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