Hadestown Film Captures Lyric Theatre London Musical
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- "Hadestown: The Musical" is a film recording of a February 2025 live performance at London's Lyric Theatre, modeled on the 2020 "Hamilton" filmed-stage release.
- Anaïs Mitchell's book, music, and lyrics interweave the Orpheus and Eurydice myth with Hades and Persephone in a "patchwork opera" of New Orleans brass, rock, and gospel.
- André De Shields, now 80, plays narrator Hermes in a silver three-piece suit and anchors the show with "a presence of mystical authority."
- Reeve Carney plays Orpheus with a "keening high tenor"; the reviewer likens him to Jeff Buckley and notes he and Eurydice actress Eva Noblezada met during early "Hadestown" productions and are now married.
- Patrick Page plays Hades as a "demonic executive" presiding over an underworld foundry, described in the review as "Ian McKellan crossed with Christopher Lee."
- The film, directed by Brett Sullivan, is on track for a $10 million opening weekend at the box office despite not being "Hamilton," per the reviewer.
- The Three Fates — Bella Brown, Madeline Charlemagne, and Allie Daniel — orbit the action "like spitfire satellites," and the musicians are introduced by name mid-show.
Why it matters: A filmed Broadway musical that isn't 'Hamilton' tracking $10M in its opening weekend extends the filmed-stage-release model beyond a single hit, giving Anaïs Mitchell's mythological opera its widest screen audience yet and rewarding a show with, per the reviewer, a "worshipful following."
