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How Hadestown and the underworld came out on top in 2019 by Maureen Lee Lenker

"It's an old song, and we're gonna sing it again." The opening hymn of the hit musical Hadestown offers a promise " not just to the eight shows a week for the folk musical that dominated Broadway in 2019, but to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice that, even now, still demands to be retold. Over the past 13 years, writer and composer Anaïs Mitchell has taken her tale of Hadestown " an idea that came to her as i…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:00PM on December 23, 2019

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