hadestown

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A kickass folk-ish musical that adapts the Greek myth telling the story of the young lovers, Orpheus & Eurydice which parallels that of the older couple Hades & Persephone all while discussing the challenges of living in a post-apocalyptic and capitalist society. Hadestown won eight Tony Awards at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards and was nominated for fourteen Tonys. The show was written by Anaïs Mitchell and is directed by Rachel Chavkin (both Tony winners, respectively.)

A place where everybody's hungry, everybody's tired, and everybody's slaves by the sweat of the brow. The wage is nothing and the work is hard; it's a graveyard in Hadestown.

Hadestown is the Broadway reimagining of an old tale from ago. Orpheus, one poor baker boy, falls in love with a beautiful lady named Eurydice. They continued to get married, but as we know, people turn on you just like the wind and everyone is a fair-weathered friend. Because of Orpheus’ neglect, Eurydice goes way down to Hadestown where she realizes that she is stuck there forever and will forget that she ever existed. After Orpheus discovers this, he sets out on a journey to save her, telling her to “Wait for Me”. He arrives at Hadestown and is allowed to let him take her home, but only if he trusts her to stay behind him on the way back. He can’t see her, hear her, nor feel her. His doubt came in. Right on the last steps to freedom, he looked back. He saw her there, but now for long as she was killed on the spot. It’s a sad tale, it’s a tragedy