Hadestown: The Musical

Hadestown: The Musical. It’s an old tale from way back when. And we’re gonna sing it again. The 2020 Grammy winner for Best Musical Theatre Album and eight-time Tony Award winning musical, HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL, makes its enchanting live capture theatrical debut, featuring the five original principals of the Broadway company. The genre-defying new musical blends modern American folk music with New Orleans-inspired jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale. Following two intertwining love stories - that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Haunting, heartbreaking and beautifully tragic, HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL is not only a story about love, but more than that it’s a story about faith. It expresses the evergreen themes of love, sacrifice, oppression, addiction and devotion, juxtaposing the tragedy of the way things are against a hope of the way they could be. Watching the journey we in the audience contemplate what any of us might do, asking ourselves, what does it mean…to look back? “It’s a sad song, but we sing it anyway,” Hermes reminds us, and it’s a sentiment worth repeating. There may be tragedy, but the spring will inevitably return.

Listed by Palace Cinemas Brisbane