Broadway Sensation 'Hadestown' Is Bringing Its Tony-Winning Musical Take on Greek Myth to Melbourne in 2025
See the story of Orpheus and Eurydice get a new spin featuring jazz and American folk tunes in this Grammy-winning production.
Melbourne, the underworld beckons: in 2025, hit musical Hadestown is set to take to the stage for the first time in the Victorian capital. Initially premiering as an indie theatre piece in 2006 in Vermont, then reaching off-Broadway in 2016 and Broadway in 2019, the show from musician and playwright Anaïs Mitchell plunges into the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. It's finally making its Australian premiere in Sydney from February, then heads to Melbourne from May.
Audiences at Her Majesty's Theatre will be able to see the production give the ancient Greek myth a new spin, courtesy of the musical that spent 2019 and 2020 collecting accolades after accolades. From 14 Tony nominations, it won eight awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. At the Grammys, it took home Best Musical Theatre Album.
If you're new to the show — which has been seen by more than three-million people and streamed over 350-million times — two love stories get Hadestown's narrative burning. Orpheus and Eurydice share the spotlight with King Hades and Persephone, as Mitchell accompanies their intertwined affairs with a soundtrack of New Orleans-inspired jazz and American folk.
Aussie audiences have Opera Australia and JONES Theatrical Group to thank for Hadestown making its way Down Under. "I'm absolutely thrilled that we're able to bring this incredible new musical to Australia for the first time, and I'm sure it will be as adored here has it has been overseas, finding a whole new legion of fans," said Opera Australia's Artistic Director Jo Davies when the Sydney season was revealed.
"Melbourne audiences embrace musicals like no other city and, in return, musicals delight in performing here due to the rousing receptions and support that they receive. Hadestown will be no exception. Creator and writer Anaïs Mitchell is such an extraordinary talent and her musical is magical, bold, exciting, and full of love and promise," noted JONES Theatrical Group's Suzanne Jones, announcing the Melbourne run.
Just like exact dates for the musical's Victorian debut, there's no casting announcements for the show as yet. Open-call auditions took place in June in both Sydney and Melbourne.
If you're keen to head along, expect to have plenty of company — when tickets went on sale for the Sydney season, Hadestown broke Theatre Royal Sydney box-office records.
Hadestown will open at Her Majesty's Theatre, 219 Exhibition Street, Sydney, from May 2025 — head to the musical's website for further details and to join the ticket waitlist.
Images: Hadestown Original London Cast.
