MUSICAL REVIEW: Hadestown ★★★★
Hadestown’s return to London has been a few years in the making; since it’s last venture at The National Theatre in 2018, the show went on to open in Broadway in 2019, expand on a US National Tour, and just under 6 years later, this sung-through musical that depicts a version of the greek tale centering around Eurydice and Orpheus is back in London, with audiences filled to the rafters inside The Lyric Theatre, where the run has already been extended due to sheer demand in the show’s return, due to the popularity of Anais Mitchell’s Music and Lyrics, which have recently become viral songs for the younger generations. Chipping away at the changes the show underwent as it hit the Broadway stage, and refining those moments when bringing the show back, this production feels cemented in a way in which we hope the creatives first envisaged the production to have when starting out; when the walls break away from aboveground to introduce the underworld in the climaxing