Orpheus and eurydice hadestown1/1/2024 Persephone serves the workers in a speakeasy she runs behind Hades’s back to (“Our Lady of the Underground”). When the cold weather returns and Eurydice searches for food and firewood, she implores Orpheus to finish his song (“A Gathering Storm”). When Eurydice hears of the relentless labor endured by the factory workers in the story, she is intrigued by the rich praises sung by the Fates as well as the promise of protection that Hadestown, she sings (“Way Down Hadestown”). Eurydice, the girl in the love story (Morgan Siobahn Green) begins to fall in love with Orpheus (Nichols Barasch) with (“All I’ve Ever Known.”). Goddess Persephone (Kimberly Marable), Demeter’s daughter by Zeus, wife of Hades and queen of the underworld, for example, arrives in the upper world and celebrates summertime with (“Livin’ it Up on Top”). Photograph © T Charles magic and success of Hadestown is the modern, lively music and choreography developed to deliver the story. Mitchell has been captivated by the classic Greek story since a child, and the sophisticated treatment that we get to enjoy today shows both the passion of the creator and the benefit of patience to get it right. Greek God Hermes actually opens the story introducing the characters and story in “Road To Hell.” Hadestown, written by Anaïs Mitchell and developed for Broadway by Rachel Chavkin, shows the benefits of what was a 16-year journey to the big stage – workshopping, a stop Off-Broadway, to becoming the talk of Broadway and winning multiple Tony Awards. This modern and somewhat hyperactive musical that is now on tour, making it’s current stop at The Fisher Theatre, is grounded in several genres of music from pop, to folk to bit of spiritual and jazz, all set in a time and place that puts one in mind of the dark voodoo corridors of New Orleans. The lesson is delivered through a not so simple boy-meets-girl story. If you are rusty on your Greek mythology, just go into seeing this glorious musical play with the eternal lesson of not looking backward in your head. Hadestown plays through December 5 at The Fisher Theatre, and then moves to The Wharton Center in East Lansing. Instead, they adapted it and mixed in some flavors and characters that would undoubtedly have been welcomed by Greek poet Virgil who conceived the story before Christ was born. But the authors of the play do not slavishly adhere to the original story, and that is to their credit. DETROIT, MI – Hadestown tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice where Orpheus descends into the underworld to rescue his lover, Eurydice.
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