When a musical is sung-through I often have difficulty understanding exactly what's going on. After all, I'm a guy who leaves captions on my TV turned on permanently because I want to make sure I get every word. So I did my homework before going to see the Tony-award winning
Hadestown: I listened to the wonderful score multiple times on Apple Music with lyrics, of course, I boned up on my mythology and I read the
Wikipedia entry. Nevertheless, there still were stretches of this overly long and overly amplified show that left me baffled. Still I enjoyed it thoroughly, especially
Lillias White as a gender-bent
Hermes,
Patrick Page as
Hades, as
Eva Noblezada as
Eurydice and
Bryan Drye blowing the meanest live trombone I've ear heard!
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| Reeve Carney & Eva Noblezada (photo by Sara Krulwich) |
Kudos, too, to
Anais Mitchell for giving classic mythology a contemporary resonance and
Rachel Chavkin for staging that toggles between hell on this earth, and hell.
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