Dreamcasting Anais Mitchell's Hadestown

http://www.hadestown.com




I'm still awaiting more news on when we'll see a full stage production of Anais Mitchell's brilliant Hadestown, a depression-era folk-opera retelling of the story of Euridice and Orpheus. In the meantime, I can't help but do a bit of dreamcasting.

Listen to the show recorded live at Club Passim (legally) then tell me your dream cast!

Eurydice: ROSE HEMINGWAY

u/s Elizabeth Davis, Arielle Jacobs [NOT Laura Osnes!]

Orpheus: COLIN DONNELL

u/s Stark Sands, Bobby Steggert

Hades, king of the underworld: TOM WOPAT

u/s Chuck Cooper, Michael Cerveris

Persephone, who runs a speakeasy: SARA RAMIREZ

u/s Kate Baldwin, Idina Menzel, Jan Maxwell, Andréa Burns

The Three Fates: HEATHER ROBB (of The Spring Standards), ASPEN VINCENT, and HOLLY BROOK (of Duncan Sheik's Whisper House)

u/s Alysha Umphress, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Lauren Pritchard

Hermes the storyteller (a hobo): RAUL ESPARZA

u/s Brian d'Arcy James, Steve Kazee, ginger-bearded Michael Esper, Norbert Leo Butz

Ensemble: Mikey Winslow, John Rua, Gerard Canonico, Declan Bennett, Colman Domingo, David Alvarez, Seth Stewart, Eliseo Román, Olga Merediz, Scott Porter, Andrew Call, Bryce Ryness, Sydney James Harcourt, Leslie McDonel, Jennifer Bowles, Krysta Rodriguez, Nina Lafarga, Afra Hines, Eryn Murman, Alice Lee, Kimiko Glenn, [NEEDS MORE WOMEN]

Director: John Tiffany

Choreographer: Steven Hoggett