Hadestown

Director: Kyle Vasquez
Music Director: Jessalynn Levine

Hadestown tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her. Set against a backdrop of a post-apocalyptic steam-punk landscape, this innovative show combines elements of American folk music, jazz, and blues to tell a story of love, loss, and redemption.

Ages

13-19

Cost

$650 ($250 deposit due at audition)

Auditions

Mon 5/26, Thurs 5/29, Mon 6/2

Performances

July 25 - July 27

Hadestown poster Register
Sumptuous... Gorgeous... As good as it gets... You wish you could live in the glowy moment forever.
- New York Times
A transporting musical hit... Anaïs Mitchell's score is a joyful combination of folk, pop, Dixieland and blues that will make you want to rehear it as soon as the lights come up.
- Time Out
Hadestown feels like something more intuitive, elemental, and finely woven than a traditional musical.
- The Guardian

Cast of Characters

Orpheus

Lyre-playing poet, gifted and naïveTenor with strong falsetto
Vocal range: D3-C5 (opt. Eb5)

Eurydice

A runaway, tough and vulnerableMezzo-Soprano
Vocal range: F#3-D5

Hades

Compulsive industrialist, boss-king of HadestownBass
Vocal range: F2-C#4

Persephone

Queen of nature and the seasons, a lushMezzo-Soprano/Alto
Vocal range: F3-C5

Hermes

Charismatic guide and storyteller, mentor to OrpheusTenor/Bass
Vocal range: C3-B4

Fates

Three sisters, vicious and delicious, voices in the headSoprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Vocal range: E3-D5 (Fate 1 up to Eb5)

Workers

Spirits of labor and community, a physical and choral presenceSATB