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Hadestown
First Preview: Mar 22, 2019
Opening Date: Apr 17, 2019
Open run
Running Time: 02:30
Playing @
Walter Kerr Theatre
219 W 48th St, New York, NY 10036
Welcome to Hadestown, where a song can change your fate. This acclaimed musical by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin is the winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It intertwines two mythic tales—that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and Queen Persephone—as it invites you on an unforgettable journey to the underworld and back. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, singers and dancers, Hadestown asks audiences to imagine how the world could be.
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Age Guidance: 8
Audience Advisory: This production contains strobe-like effects throughout.
Music
- Anaïs Mitchell
Lyrics
- Anaïs Mitchell
Book
- Anaïs Mitchell
Director
- Rachel Chavkin
Choreographer
- David Neumann
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Lottery & Rush
Digital Lottery: $47.50 tickets are available through lottery on Lucky Seat. Entries close at 10:30 AM on the day of the performance, and winners are drawn starting at 11 AM. Winners can purchase up to 2 tickets. All tickets are subject to availability. Some seats purchased through the lottery may have an obstructed view. Visit luckyseat.com.
Standing Room: For sold-out performances, a limited number of $39 standing-room tickets will be available at the box office starting at 12 PM for matinees and 5 PM for evening performances. Standing-room tickets can be purchased with cash or debit/credit cards. Limit of 1 ticket per person.
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Reviews
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Critic's Pick! All your favorite Greeks are heading somewhere in Hadestown, the sumptuous, hypnotic and somewhat hyperactive musical...[Anaïs] Mitchell’s score combines folk, pop and Dixieland with rhythmic work shanties and, for the lovers, ethereal arias. All of it sounds great in swinging arrangements for a terrific seven-piece onstage band...[Rachel] 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.
—Jesse Green, The New York Times -
Four stars! Anaïs Mitchell’s transporting musical makes a hit from a myth...Here’s my advice: Go to hell. And by hell, of course, I mean Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell’s fizzy, moody, thrilling new Broadway musical...Hadestown, moment after lovely moment, sweeps you up in its atmospherics and in the intensity of its eco-Marxist vision of solidarity and the liberating potential of art...And, most important, it has Mitchell’s score: a joyful combination of folk, pop, Dixieland and blues that will make you want to rehear it as soon as the lights come up. You’ll be singing it again in your head for days.
—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York -
Lush, vigorous and formally exciting, not to mention, in certain moments, witchily prescient...as an intricate and gorgeous feat of songwriting, as a vehicle for dynamite performances, as a visionary long-term collaboration and a courageous experiment with form, Hadestown is cause for celebration. [Anaïs] Mitchell’s lyrics are image-rich and clever, her confident tunes exhilarating as they hop genres and tones.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture -
Critic's Pick! All your favorite Greeks are heading somewhere in Hadestown, the sumptuous, hypnotic and somewhat hyperactive musical...[Anaïs] Mitchell’s score combines folk, pop and Dixieland with rhythmic work shanties and, for the lovers, ethereal arias. All of it sounds great in swinging arrangements for a terrific seven-piece onstage band...[Rachel] 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.
—Jesse Green, The New York Times
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Accessibility
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Box Office
Outer lobby. Counter 41" -
Curb Ramps
NW corner of 48th St. & Broadway; NE corner of 48th St. & 8th Ave., and just west of entrance. -
Restroom
Accessible restroom located House Left, under the stair well. Womens: Up nineteen steps from orchestra.Mens: Up eighteen steps from orchestra. -
Elevator/Escalator
None -
Telephone
A cellular telephone is available free of charge to patrons with disabilities. -
Entrance
Double doors in series: 1st set (each 23", heavy) to outer lobby; 2nd set (each 26", heavy) into orchestra. -
Visual Assistance
Vision/Hearing Accessible seating is located in the middle of orchestra center Row D, the second row from the stage. -
Water Fountain
Water available from bar -
Assisted Listening System
Reservations are not necessary. Drivers license or ID with printed address required as a deposit. Please call: (212) 582-7678 to reserve in advance. -
Wheelchair Info
Wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only.
