Hadestown Leaves the Road to Hell For the Big Screen, and Its Crew Couldn't Be More Excited

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"It's a sad song. It's a sad tale....But we sing it anyway." When Hadestown first hit the Great White Way in 2019, it certainly had buzz but no one associated with the show could have foreseen the deep depth of feeling that would accrue because of circumstances beyond their control.

After the pandemic and audiences returned to live theater, the cast of the show – telling the tragic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice – realized something had happened. "When we returned to Hadestown, the audience had been transformed," Patrick Page, who plays Hades, told The Film Maven. "They were now people who felt ownership of the show and were watching it as active participants. What had happened was during that shutdown, when people were hurting, they had their headphones on, and these lyrics and this music kept them sane." I was one of those people, someone who had discovered the show on YouTube and became obsessed.

Now, audiences like me who can't travel to New York have the opportunity to see Page, alongside original Broadway cast members Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, Andre De Shields and Amber Gray (alongside the West End cast) on the big screen for one night only: tomorrow, July 24. "It feels beautiful," Noblezada said. "We're very grateful, and we're along for the ride just like everyone else...I hope that people are excited to see two worlds collide of two different companies that represent a whole history book of this show. How it's went from the van in Vermont all the way to multi-productions all over the world."