Hadestown Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Road to Hell
2. Come Home With Me
3. Wedding Song
4. Livin' It Up on Top
5. All I've Ever Known ("In Spite of Herself"...) [Intro]
6. All I've Ever Known
7. Way Down Hadestown
8. Chant
9. When the Chips Are Down ("Songbird vs. Rattlesnake"...) [Intro]
10. When the Chips Are Down
11. Wait for Me ("Hey, The Big Artiste"...) [Intro]
12. Wait for Me
13. Why We Build the Wall
14. Why We Build the Wall ("Behind Closed Doors"...) [Outro]
15. If It's True
16. Epic III
17. Epic III ("They Danced"...)
18. Promises
19. Wait for Me (Reprise)
20. Road to Hell (Reprise)
From the Album
1. Road to Hell
2. Livin It Up on Top
3. All I've Ever Known
4. Way Down Hadestown
5. Epic II
6. Chant
7. Hey Little Songbird
8. When the Chips are Down
9. Gone I'm Gone
10. Wait for Me
11. Why We Build the Wall
12. Our Lady of the Underground
13. Way Down Hadestown II
14. Chant II
15. Epic III
16. Word to the Wise
17. His Kiss the Riot
18. Promises
19. Wait for Me II
20. Doubt Comes In
21. Road to Hell II
Other Songs
All I
Any Way the Wind Blows
Chant
Chant II
Come Home With Me
Come Home With Me II
Doubt Comes In
Epic I
Epic II
Epic III
Flowers
Gone I
Hey Little Songbird
His Kiss The Riot
How Long
I Raise My Cup
If It
Nothing Changes
Our Lady of the Underground
Papers
Promises
Road to Hell
Road to Hell II
Wait For Me
Wait For Me II
Way Down Hadestown
Way Down Hadestown II
Wedding Song
When The Chips Are Down
Why We Build the Wall
Word to the Wise
Hadestown is a sung-through musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial version of the Greek underworld to escape poverty and the cold, and her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her.
The original version of the musical premiered in the town of Barre, Vermont, in 2006, followed by a production in Vergennes, Vermont the same year and a tour between Vermont and Massachusetts in 2007. After the tour, Mitchell—unsure about the future of the musical—turned it into a concept album, released in 2010.
In 2012, Mitchell met director Rachel Chavkin, and the two started to rework the stage production, with additional songs and dialogue. The new version of the musical, developed for the stage and directed by Chavkin, premiered Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop on May 6, 2016, and ran through July 31. Following productions in Edmonton and London, the show premiered in previews on Broadway in March 2019.
The Broadway production opened to critical acclaim and received numerous awards and nominations. At the 73rd Tony Awards, Hadestown received 14 nominations (the most for the evening) and won eight of them, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
-Wikipedia
The original version of the musical premiered in the town of Barre, Vermont, in 2006, followed by a production in Vergennes, Vermont the same year and a tour between Vermont and Massachusetts in 2007. After the tour, Mitchell—unsure about the future of the musical—turned it into a concept album, released in 2010.
In 2012, Mitchell met director Rachel Chavkin, and the two started to rework the stage production, with additional songs and dialogue. The new version of the musical, developed for the stage and directed by Chavkin, premiered Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop on May 6, 2016, and ran through July 31. Following productions in Edmonton and London, the show premiered in previews on Broadway in March 2019.
The Broadway production opened to critical acclaim and received numerous awards and nominations. At the 73rd Tony Awards, Hadestown received 14 nominations (the most for the evening) and won eight of them, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
-Wikipedia