Segers Cut From Hadestown Over Resurfaced Online Posts
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- Hadestown producers — Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold, and Tom Kirdahy — initially announced Geno Segers as the new principal cast member playing Hades, citing his stage credits in On the Town and The Lion King and TV roles in Banshee, Pair of Kings, and Yellowstone.
- Theater blog OnStageBlog resurfaced past online videos and comments by Segers that commenters characterized as anti-transgender and critical of pronoun usage, with the actor also reportedly opposing trans athletes in women's sports.
- Segers and the producers mutually agreed he would no longer join the Broadway production, with the producers' statement giving no explanation and Segers issuing no statement of his own.
- Segers made his Instagram account private and removed videos from his YouTube channel in the days after the initial cast announcement.
- Hadestown announced additional casting will be revealed shortly, with Segers having been scheduled to begin the role on September 1.
Why it matters: For Broadway's Hadestown, the production loses its announced lead just days after the casting reveal, forcing a swift re-casting search before the September 1 start date. For studios weighing social-media vetting of cast members, the episode shows how quickly resurfaced online posts — not new statements — can derail a casting within a single news cycle.
