Hadestown – Cast Update Oct 2022

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, where Orpheus goes to the underworld to rescue his fiancée Eurydice.

The original version of the musical premiered in the town of Barre, Vermont in 2006. There was also a production in Vergennes in the same year and a tour between Vermont and Massachusetts in 2007. Then Mitchell, unsure about the future of the musical, turned it into a concept album, released in 2010.

In 2012, Mitchell met director Rachel Chavkin, and the two started to rework the stage production, with additional songs and dialogue. The new version of the musical, developed for the stage and directed by Chavkin, premiered Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop on May 6, 2016 and ran through July 31. Following productions in Edmonton and London, the show premiered in previews on Broadway in March 2019.

The Broadway production opened to critical acclaim and received numerous awards and nominations. At the 73rd Tony Awards, Hadestown received a total of 14 nominations (the most for the evening) and won eight of them, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

 

Cast (Oct 2022)

Eva Noblezada – Eurydice
Jewelle Blackman – Persephone
Reeve Carney – Orpheus
Patrick Page – Hades
Lillias White – Hermes
Amela Cormack – Fate
Soara-Joye Ross – Fate
Kay Trinidad – Fate
Emily Afton – Worker
Malcolm Armwood – Worker
Alex Puette – Worker
Trent Saunders – Worker
Grace Yoo – Worker
Sojourner Brown – Swing
Tara Jackson – Swing
Max Kumangai – Swing
Sayo Oni – Swing
Yael “Yaya” Reich – Swing
Davis Wayne _ Swing

 

 

Walter Kerr Theatre

 

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The Walter Kerr Theatre is a Broadway theatre. Located at 219 West 48th Street, it is owned and operated by Jujamcyn Theaters. One of the smaller auditoriums in the Theater District, it seats 975. The theater was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and built as the Ritz Theatre in 1921 by the Shubert family. It was operated by ABC as a radio and then television studio between 1943 and 1965, and remained vacant from 1965 to 1971, when it reopened with the musical Soon, book by Martin Duberman, which closed after three performances.

Although it housed a number of productions in the next two years, it remained dark from 1973 to 1983. The last production to staged at the Ritz was Chu Chem. After it closed, Jujamcyn hired EverGreene Architectural Arts to renovate the interior. In 1990 it reopened, now renamed for theater critic Walter Kerr, with August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.

 

 

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Address

219 W 48th St (between Broadway & 8th Ave) New York, NY 10036

Transport

Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority; C, E, 1 to 50th St; N, Q, R to 49th St

Phone

(212) 239-6200

Box Office

Mon – Sat 10am to 8pm daily

Access Information

Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible. Please be advised that where there are steps either into or within the theatre we are unable to provide assistance.

Seating is accessible to all parts of the Orchestra without steps. Wheelchair seating is available in the Orchestra only.

There is a wheelchair accessible restroom located on the orchestra level

 

Hadestown Cast Update

Hadestown, Hadestown Cast Update, Eva Noblezada, Jewelle Blackman, Reeve Carney, Patrick Page, Lillias White, Amela Cormack, Soara-Joye Ross, Kay Trinidad, Emily Afton, Malcolm Armwood, Alex Puette ,Trent Saunders, Grace Yoo, Sojourner Brown, Tara Jackson, Max Kumangai, Sayo Oni, Yael “Yaya” Reich, Davis Wayne