"Why We Build the Wall" – Hades, Eurydice, Company."Wait For Me" – Hermes, Orpheus, The Fates, Workers."When The Chips Are Down" – The Fates, Eurydice."When The Chips Are Down Intro" – Hermes, Eurydice, Hades."Hey, Little Songbird" – Hades, Eurydice."Chant" – Persephone, Hades, Eurydice, Orpheus, Hermes, The Fates, Workers."Wind Theme"/"A Gathering Storm" – Hermes, Eurydice, Orpheus, The Fates."Way Down Hadestown" – Hermes, Persephone, The Fates, Workers."All I've Ever Known" – Eurydice, Orpheus.Living It Up On Top" – Hermes, Persephone, Orpheus, Workers."Wedding Song" – Eurydice, Orpheus, Workers."Come Home With Me" – Orpheus, Eurydice, Workers."Any Way the Wind Blows" – Hermes, The Fates, Eurydice, Orpheus.Timothy Hughes, Afra Hines, Ahmad Simmons, Kimberly Marable, and John Krause as the Workers Chorus.Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzales-Nacer, and Kay Trinidad as the Fates.The Broadway show began with the following cast: Hermes has warned the audience that it's a sad song, a tragedy, but holds out hope that maybe it'll turn out this time - only the Fates know for sure. Armed only with his music and love for Eurydice, Orpheus sets off for Hadestown to get her back, and perhaps bring back spring as well. Out of pragmatism, she accepts Hades' offer to come to Hadestown and work forever with food and board, learning too late it's in exchange for her life and memories. When Orpheus is too focused on songwriting to provide, Eurydice is left to the harsh winter. While Persephone brings summertime and fills the world with life all too briefly, Orpheus hopes to write a song to bring back spring, and promises Eurydice the world. The messenger god Hermes is singing an old tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, a couple who struggle to survive in a harsh world where the seasons are out of joint thanks to Hades and Persephone's deteriorating marriage.
Orpheus and eurydice hadestown update#
The show is a Setting Update of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a deliberately vague setting that evokes the United States sometime during the mid-20th century. A London transfer of the Broadway version was announced in 2023. It then transferred to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, where it premiered on April 17, 2019. This version of the show premiered Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, followed by a reading at New 42nd Street Studios in 2017, a production at the Citadel Theatre in Alberta Canada in 2017, and a run at the UK's National Theatre from November 2018 to January 2019. In 2016, Hadestown returned to the stage with an expanded story and revised tracklist. Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown began life as a small-scale 2006-2007 theatrical production in Vermont before it was turned into a concept album in 2010.
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