Hadestown
Director: Kyle VasquezMusic 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
May 26, Callbacks May 29
Performances
July 25 - July 27
Sumptuous... Gorgeous... As good as it gets... You wish you could live in the glowy moment forever.
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.
Hadestown feels like something more intuitive, elemental, and finely woven than a traditional musical.
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