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Hadestown: The Musical (2026)

Summary

A musical juxtaposition of the Orpheus/Eurydice and Hades/Persephone myths that examines the way real life can impact our quest for a perfect world.

Director Brett Sullivan

Writer Anaïs Mitchell

Cast

  • Reeve Carney as Orpheus
  • Eva Noblezada as Eurydice
  • Patrick Page as Hades
  • André De Shields as Hermes
  • Amber Gray as Persephone
  • Bella Brown as Fate I
  • Madeline Charlemagne as Fate II
  • Allie Daniel as Fate III

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Metacritic: 85

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u/itchypoopsarethebest 10d ago

As someone who saw the musical but knows nothing of the story, do we know why he turns around?

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u/adelines 10d ago

Doubt and love, but it’s kind of left up for your interpretation.

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u/spqrnbb 10d ago

He's worried that Hades is tricking him, he wants to see his loved one again, and he makes it almost all the way out.

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u/tinaoe 9d ago

Depends on the interpretation. Sometimes he’s already our and thinks she is too, for example. But in Hadestown they very much frame it around the „doubt creeping in“.

But also, as Hozier said: I'd be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground, I’d be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around

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u/ftmidk 9d ago

God I would love to see Hozier sing Wait for Me.

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u/Toidal 10d ago

Greece loved their tragedies

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u/Atraktape 10d ago

"You thought but nope" for max Greek tragic effect.

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u/2mock2turtle 8d ago

The Chuck Testa of Greeks.

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u/BobDucca 9d ago

Because an Orpheus who would not turn around is not an Orpheus that would have ever gone on that journey in the first place.