How Hadestown and the underworld came out on top in 2019
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.— an idea that came to her as if handed down by the Muses — from DIY upstart to concept album to full-fledged theatrical production. The trick all of it was making an old fable feel new again.
“It almost is baked into the myth, in a strange way,” she reflects, citing performances circa 2008 that drew a laughs recognition as audiences found parallels between that year’s recession and the show’s themes of economic downturn. Then there’s the way “Hey, Little Songbird,” originally played as a humorous business transaction, took on a more sinister note in the wake of increasing conversations about sexual misconduct and abuse of power.
But the music itself is unlike almost anything else on Broadway, folksy and steeped in something ancient. Mitchell partly chalks that up to the fact that she writes on guitar, not piano, unlike many musical theater composers. Her biggest influences came by way of folk songs and traditional music, particularly from the British Isles. “I’ve always been really inspired by that stuff, and I love the way that the lines that were written hundreds of years ago still resonate today,” she muses.
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