By Anaïs Mitchell
HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp. www.concordtheatricals.com
Join us October 11th at 7pm, October 12th at 7pm, and October 13th at 2pm
2019 Tony Awards - Best Musical & Best Score
"It's a sad song.
It's a sad tale; it's a tragedy.
It's a sad song.
But we sing it anyway."
- Hermes
This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and Lady Persephone — Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.
(from Concord Theatricals)
“The prodigiously talented Mitchell’s command of eclectic musical styles and ability to make them cohere is impressive, and the poetry and humor of her lyrics no less so. There’s a playfulness in her rhymes that makes you sit up and pay attention, as much as the gorgeous melodies, given full-bodied life in the orchestrations and arrangements of Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose.”
(Rooney, David, “'Hadestown': Theater Review,” The Hollywood Reporter, April 17, 2019)