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News Desk April 18th, 2019
In a journey that has taken over 13 years Anais Mitchell's folk-opera Hadestown finally opened on Broadway last night (April 17). Directed by Rachel Chavkin (The Great Comet), what did the critics think of this brand new musical?
Hadestown opened to rave reviews with the New York Times calling it "sumptuous" and "hypnotic". They continued with praise for the production's development saying, "Ms. Chavkin has probably come as close as anyone could to selling a cerebral downtown story as state-of-the-art Broadway entertainment. Like the sets and musical arrangements, the costumes (by Michael Krass), the lighting (by Bradley King) and the sound design (by Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz) are as good as it gets".
The Hollywood Reporter continued with the praise calling Hadestown "wildly inventive" and "utterly fabulous". They continued with "...a seamless theatrical experience, this beguiling, virtually sung-through musical is notable for the expressive beauty of its score, the dark imagination of its stage pictures and the clarity of its storytelling. Performed by a first-rate cast and played with spirited feeling by seven onstage musicians, it arrives on Broadway with a furnace-like blast of creativity. "
Deadline called the new musical "...the most thrilling new musical of the season", with Vulture calling it "...lush, vigorous, and formally exciting, not to mention, in certain moments, witchily prescient."
What is Hadestown about?
Transporting the action from ancient Greece to an eclectic setting akin to the buzzing New Orleans scene, Hadestown weaves together the opposing forces of nature and industry, faith and doubt, and love and death to tell the story of the guitar-toting Orpheus and his great love Eurydice as they battle the harsh landscape of Hadestown, an industrial underworld of trouble and toil that makes for a better choice than the winter-ravaged landscape above. Lured by the promise of food and shelter, Eurydice is kidnapped by Hades, a foreman-like figure who rules the mechanical below. Orpheus sets out to save his wife, setting off a chain reaction of unrest, riot and chaos in his fateful wake.
Hadestown is now playing at the Walter Kerr Theater.
Sumptous. Goregeous. As good as it gets. You wish you could live in the glowy moment forever
New York Times
