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Daniel April 10th, 2024
Olivier nominee Jon Jon Briones and his daughter Isa will be taking to the stage in Hadestown on March 19 at the Walter Kerr Theater. The father and daughter duo will be succeeding Tony-winning Lillias White and Lola Tung, in their roles as Hermes and Eurydice.
Jon Jon Briones will be playing the part of narrator Hermes' who takes us through the Greek underworld, accompanying us through Eurydice's (played by Isa Briones) struggle through her doomed romance with Orpheus. Jon Jon is known for his roles in Ryan Murphy's Ratched' and his Broadway/West End part as The Engineer in Miss Saigon. His daughter Isa has been on screen in Star Trek and Goosebumps, with Hadestown being her Broadway debut.
Joining Jon Jon and Isa Briones are Jordan Fisher as Orpheus, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco as Persephone, and Grammy nominee Phillip Boykin as Hades.
After a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run at the New York Theater Workshop in the Summer of 2016, the extraordinary inventive folk opera Hadestown has now found a permanent home on the main stem. The brainchild of celebrated indie-folk singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell and Tony-nominated experimental theatre director Rachel Chavkin, who helmed smash-hit 'Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812', the musical fuses elements of Greek mythology with Mitchell's emotionally-charged concept album of the same name.
Praised for its soaring imagination and updated retelling of the classic ill-fated story of Orpheus and Eurydice, a popular subject for multiple compositions and retellings over the years. Hadestown is blessed with a groundbreaking creative license that keeps things fresh and very interesting, influencing a steadily growing cult following of fervent fans since its debut. It's an indie-flavored fusion of New Orleans trad jazz and folk Americana, as well as an otherworldly setting and poetic lyrics/dialogue, immersing the audience in a realm where innovative theatre design, music, and storytelling blend seamlessly with stunning, genre-defining results.
This musical transports 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 mechanicals below. Orpheus sets out to save his wife, setting off a chain reaction of unrest, riot, and chaos in his fateful wake.
Sumptous. Goregeous. As good as it gets. You wish you could live in the glowy moment forever
New York Times
