Hadestown Understudies — Page 12

Couple of questions for those who might know - any idea how cast attendance might be the week between Christmas and New Year's? Got my mother tickets for the Wednesday evening performance Dec. 29th (we were scheduled to see the tour in Boston, but had to give up our tickets as we had a death in the family). I've seen the show twice before (once with OBC and once with OBC minus Patrick) and both times were wonderful, so I know it'll be a good time regardless of who is on.

Also - who is currently understudying Eva, and has anyone seen them/can give insight? I noticed she is apparently scheduled to be out on my trip in January (the 21st).

There’s a casting call out for a temporary Orpheus replacement for the month of January, so either Reeve will be out or he is leaving at the beginning of January and the real replacement can’t start that early?

I mentioned a few pages back Reeve is supposed to go to Italy for a supernatural convention:


The convention has a posted 2022 dates already:

Feb 23 to 27, 2022
Aug 26 to 28, 2022

The website has him as a confirmed guest on Feb 23 - 24 for JIBLAND5 and Feb 25 to 27 for JIBII.

I wonder if this plays into the above posting.

adotburr said: "I mentioned a few pages back Reeve is supposed to go to Italy for a supernatural convention:


The convention has a posted2022 dates already:

Feb 23 to 27, 2022
Aug 26 to 28, 2022

The website has him as aconfirmed gueston Feb 23 - 24 for JIBLAND5 and Feb 25 to 27 for JIBII.

I wonder if this plays into the above posting."

Seeing as the temporary replacement posting is for the month of January and that convention is not in January, I can’t imagine they are correlated.

11/15: casting calls for all roles-


workers: https://www.broadwayworld.com/equity-audition/HADESTOWN-Hadestown-Broadway-LLC-2021-24975

principals: https://www.broadwayworld.com/equity-audition/HADESTOWN-Hadestown-Broadway-LLC-2021-24974

LizzieCurry said: "Trent Saunders is on as Orpheus tonight!

https://twitter.com/understudies/status/1460732543259529216"

Wow that escalated quickly!!! We went from who is Trent Saunders to principal debut in about a week! Hopefully someone is there tonight to report back!

willep said: "Temporary Replacement Orpheus


I don’t know if you can view it without an Actor’s Access account. First performance on/about 1/4, final performance on/about 1/30."

Can someone explain what this means? Thank you

Jessie Shelton posted her Eurydice dates on her instagram story!

11/19- evening show

11/20- matinee

I've seen the OBC in previews and then saw last night's (Tuesday 11/16) show, which was full of wonderful swaps- T.O as Hermes- I LOVED him- harkened back vocally to the og live recording and he was a less sarcastic and a bit kinder Hermes. Lana Gordon as Persephone sounded great- played it less surly than Amber Gray but with all the same energy. Khaila Wilcoxon was a fine Eurydice, but my absolute favorite was Trent Saunders as Orpheus- his performance was much more irreverent and self aware, which is important for this particular part because I think that it's easy for Orpheus as written to come across as slightly wimpy, and make their love story less believable. Trent's Wait for Me was even more staggering to me last night then seeing it staged for the first time with Reeve Carney.

In general, the men dominated in this mix but everything coalesced perfectly anyway.

adotburr said: "Love love love T’s Hermes.
Wow- what a night last night though!! Khaila, Lana, T, Trent!! All principals!! I wonder though why everyone was out the same night?!"

Reeve and Eva were at the House of Gucci premiere.

Do we think Reeve will return to the show in February? I thought I heard the OBC would be staying until Feb/March.

adotburr said: "Sayo Oni joined the Broadway cast as a swing / Orpheus u/s / Worker u/s!"

It is simply ridiculous how much talent the Blumey Awards have churned out so far.

^ Andre has an event Dec 3-5 so he might be out of the show those days since the event is in Baltimore. Can’t comment on Amber and her alternate. Doesn’t look like they’re announcing the schedule. I would go in expecting an understudy and just take the surprise if all the principals are in the show you do attend.