Tony Award-winning best musical HADESTOWN to release TALKING HADESTOWN album
Warner Music Group’s Arts Music and Sing It Again Records have announced the release of Talking Hadestown, a sixteen-part, digital words-and-music experience where Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer Anaïs Mitchell takes listeners through the inspirations, concepts and creative processes that lie behind the key songs from the Tony Award-winning Best Musical.
The first four tracks are available for streaming and download from all major music services now. In addition to Mitchell’s commentary, the album includes excerpts from the Original Broadway Cast Recording. There will be three additional weekly releases, with the full album being available on 1 November, the fifth anniversary of the release of the Original Broadway Cast Recording.
The original Broadway cast recording includes Reeve Carney as Orpheus, André De Shields as Hermes, Amber Gray as Persephone, Eva Noblezada as Eurydice, Patrick Page as Hades, Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, and Kay Trinidad as the Fates, with Afra Hines, Timothy Hughes, John Krause, Kimberly Marable, Ahmad Simmons, Malcolm Armwood, T. Oliver Reid, Jessie Shelton, and Khaila Wilcoxon rounding out the ensemble vocals.
Hadestown is playing its fifth year on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre and at the Lyric Theatre in the West End.