Take your chances, flip a coin!

 Hadestown has had a long journey

from concept album to workshop to off-Broadway stagings in 

Canada and London, finally opening on Broadway in April (2019).

The cast now includes Andre De Shields as Hermes.

 Below, the Fates!

 The story blends the myth of 

Persephone and Hades with Orpheus and Eurydice...

with Hermes thrown in as the narrator/advisor.

Some of the cast from the 2016 NY Theatre Workshop were kept on for
the Broadway production,

like Amber Gray (above and on the left below) as Persephone,

and Patrick Page (below) as Hades.

 As Eurydice and Orpheus,

Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney, on the right.

 Director Rachel Chavkin
 (who just 2 years ago helped create
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812)

and composer Anais Mitchell.

Anais also wrote the book AND the lyrics, 

making Hadestown the first Broadway musical

since Liz Swados' Runaways back in 1978

to be created soley by a woman. 

The show has 14 Tony nominations,

and on June 9th, we'll find out just how many they take home!

Waiting on the cast album of the Broadway version,

so what we'll hear on Sunday 

is a live recording done in 2016...

featuring Chris Sullivan in the role of Hermes (above),

Damon Daunno as Orpheus and Nabiyah Be as Eurydice (below).

Diana Rigg, Lauren Ambrose and Harry Hadden-Paton 

in the ON BROADWAY RIGHT NOW revival of My Fair Lady,

at the Ascot, post-Gavotte.

Eliza D. losing it ("Move yer bloody arse!") over a horse. :) 

And below, Stanley Holloway (hey, he found his "luck!") in 

the original Broadway production (and later, the movie as well)

as Alfred P. Doolittle.

Hal Linden in The Rothschilds,

the music of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick,

 their last collaboration.

 The Rothschild family of the 1700s, 

rising from life in the Jewish ghetto of Frankfort, Germany,

to become bankers to the world...

"He Tossed A Coin"!

Hal won a Tony for his role as Mayer Rothschild.

And playing a daughter-in-law, Jill Clayburgh.

 And speaking of Bock and Harnick,

their 2nd musical together was Fiorello!

Their first, The Body Beautiful, was a bit of a bomb, back in 1958,

but one year later they came back strong

with this Pulitzer Prize winning show,

starring Tom Bosley (above) as The Little Flower,

aka Fiorello LaGuardia (below).

 

Along with Tom, it featured

Howard Da Silva, below on the album

"Songs To Get Elected By",

Nathaniel Frey, Pat Stanley, and soon to be

Broadway Superman,

Bob Holiday.

Best Musical of 1960, and one for Mr. Bosley as well.

We'll hear "Politics & Poker" on Sunday.