Hadestown Sets 2025 Amsterdam and Melbourne Premieres
Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony-winning musical will play Amsterdam’s Royal Theater Carré and Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre.
Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, and Reeve Carney in the original Broadway company
The Tony-winning musical Hadestown will make its Amsterdam and Melbourne premieres next year.
Royal Theater Carré will produce Anaïs Mitchell’s international hit, with performances set to begin in summer 2025 at Carré. The musical will be performed in English and will be cast “country-blind” with simultaneous auditions in London and Amsterdam.
The Melbourne production will open in spring 2025 at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
Dates and casting for both productions will be announced at a later time.
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Madeleine van der Zwaan, managing director of Carré, says in a statement, “Hadestown won my heart from the start and has been at the top of our wish list for Carré. It is a genre-defying musical theatre that deeply moves; a modern and innovative performance with music that stays with you long after you’ve seen it. Each actor has the opportunity to add something special and unique to their role, making the performance very authentic. Collaborating with the original creative team ensures that the quality of Broadway and West End can also be presented at Carré. It is special to be able to announce this beautiful title just a few months after its West End opening and to produce it ourselves.”
“From a silver school bus in Vermont, to Broadway, to nations around the globe, the Hadestown caravan
continues to grow as we’ve been called to these cities by our fans,”
added producer Mara Isaacs. “We’re thrilled to continue to give
audiences worldwide the opportunity to experience this singular world
created by the genius of Anais Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin.”
Carré, previously Broadway in Carré, has produced such Broadway and West End hits as Pippin, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sunset Boulevard, and The Book of Mormon.
Mitchell’s underworld-set folk opera, which premiered
Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in 2016, made its London
premiere at the National Theatre in November 2018. The production
subsequently opened on Broadway, where it continues at the Walter Kerr,
in April 2019. A London return currently plays the Lyric Theatre.
The creative team features set designer Rachel Hauck, costume
designer Michael Krass, lighting designer Bradley King, sound
designers Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz, choreographer David Neumann,
music supervisor and vocal arranger Liam Robinson, arrangers and
orchestrators Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose, and dramaturg Ken
Cerniglia. Casting for the London production is by Jacob Sparrow.
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.
The show, featuring a book and score by Mitchell, won eight 2019 Tony
Awards: Best Director of a Musical (Rachel Chavkin), Best Featured
Actor in a Musical (André De Shields), Best Lighting Design of a Musical
(Bradley King), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Rachel Hauck), Best
Sound Design of a Musical (Jessica Paz and Nevin Steinberg), Best
Orchestrations (Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose), Best Original
Score (Mitchell), and Best Musical.
Click here for more information about the Amsterdam production. For more about the Melbourne staging, visit Hadestown.com.au.
