The Tony Award-winning Best Musical Hadestown welcomed an entirely new principal cast to the Walter Kerr Theatre earlier this month, and Playbill Director of Social Media Jeffrey Vizcaíno recently had the chance to chat with the newest inhabitants of the underworld.

Broadway favorite Rebecca Naomi Jones discussed her "unhinged Persephone"; South Pacific Tony winner Paulo Szot, now playing Hades, spoke of the show's "transcendent music"; while West End Next to Normal breakout star Jack Wolfe, currently making his Broadway debut as Orpheus, said the creative team allows "a huge amount of freedom to inhabit the roles sort of authentically as we want to, which is cool."

Watch those interviews, as well as chats with two-time Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling ( making his Broadway debut as Hermes) and Disney star Morgan Dudley (the latest Eurydice), in the video above.

(It should be noted Wolfe is not performing in Hadestown through September 23; John Krause is temporarily playing Orpheus.) Jeffrey Cornelius and Ayla Ciccone-Burton also recently joined the company.

The current Broadway cast also features Marla Louissaint, Jessie Shelton, and Kay Trinidad as the Fates with the Chorus of Workers played by Emily Afton, Malcolm Armwood, Timothy H. Lee, Sydney Parra, and Alex Puette. Swings are Brandon Cameron, KC Dela Cruz, Max Kumangai, Alex Lugo, and Tanner Ray Wilson. Casting is by Whitley Theatrical.

READ: How Hadestown Music Director Liam Robinson Keeps the Show Feeling, and Sounding, Fresh

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Photos: Jack Wolfe, Morgan Dudley, More Take 1st Bow in Hadestown

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Hadestown is currently in its sixth year on Broadway and in its second year in the West End (the musical returned to London six years after its 2018 engagement at the National Theatre). The record-breaking North American tour has just completed its three-year run, and productions recently opened across the globe in Sydney, Melbourne, and Amsterdam.

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Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s folk- and jazz-infused musical layers the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with that of Hades and Persephone, intertwining the actions—and consequences—of gods and mortals. Hadestown originally began as a theatrical concert performed by Mitchell.

The creative team features Tony-winning set designer Rachel Hauck, Tony-nominated costume designer Michael Krass, Tony-winning lighting designer Bradley King, Tony-winning sound designers Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz, choreographer David Neumann, and dramaturg Ken Cerniglia. Musical supervision and vocal arrangements are by Liam Robinson, with arrangements and orchestrations by Tony winners Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose.

The show, featuring a book and score by Mitchell, won eight 2019 Tony Awards: Best Director of a Musical (Rachel Chavkin), Best Featured Actor in a Musical (André De Shields), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Bradley King), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Rachel Hauck), Best Sound Design of a Musical (Jessica Paz and Nevin Steinberg), Best Orchestrations (Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose), Best Original Score (Mitchell), and Best Musical.