Watch Original Hadestown Cast Join Current Broadway Company for Special Version of 'Cups' | Playbill

Video Watch Original Hadestown Cast Join Current Broadway Company for Special Version of 'Cups'

Also, check out photos from the 2,000th performance of the Tony-winning musical at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

It wasn't only Hamilton celebrating a milestone performance this week. The Tony-winning Best Musical Hadestown played its 2,000th performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre August 7.

Following the curtain call, the current Broadway company performed a special rendition of “Cups,” joined by dozens of alumni. Among those celebrating were Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, Patrick Page, Rachel Chavkin, and Jordan Fisher.

Check out the special curtain call performance in the video above and photos from the evening in the gallery below.

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

Hadestown currently stars Ali Louis Bourzgui as Orpheus, Phillip Boykin as Hades, Daniel Breaker as Hermes, Lana Gordon as Persephone, and Myra Molloy as Eurydice, who will all take their final bows August 31.

Beginning September 2, Disney star Morgan Dudley (Descendants: The Rise of Red) will play Eurydice; two-time Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling will play Hermes; Broadway favorite Rebecca Naomi Jones (Stereophonic) will play Persephone; South Pacific Tony winner Paulo Szot, will play Hades; and West End Next to Normal breakout star Jack Wolfe will make his Broadway debut as Orpheus. (Wolfe will not perform in Hadestown September 9–21.)

The Broadway company 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. The cast also includes swings Brandon Cameron, KC Dela Cruz, Max Kumangai, Alex Lugo, and Tanner Ray Wilson.

READ: Morgan Dudley, Kurt Elling, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Paulo Szot, Jack Wolfe to Join Broadway's Hadestown

Casting is by Whitley Theatrical.

Photos: Hadestown Celebrates 2,000 Performances on Broadway

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.

 
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