


The story is clearer, the songs express that story more directly and the larger themes arise from it naturally rather than demanding immediate attention like overeager undergraduates.” Reviewer Jesse Green called the latest iteration of the show “something very much warmer, if not yet ideally warm. The show won Tonys for Best Musical and Best Original Score, among others.Īccording to a New York Timesreview of the premiere, the show underwent a “radical transformation” between its off-Broadway run and its opening at the Walter Kerr theater. Mitchell wrote the show's music, lyrics and book. The show is based on Anais Mitchell’s 2010 concept album, and most of the music is adapted from the album. Hadestown traces Orpheus’ journey to the underworld to rescue his fiancé, Eurydice.
