The winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Score, and four Drama Desk Awards, this intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – “Hadestown” invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. This is Footlite’s Young Artists Production with performers aged 13 through 18.
Book, Music and Lyrics by Anais Mitchell