Hadestown tour questions. — Page 4

Saw the first performance of their week in Vancouver last night. What a privilege to have Lana Gordon as Persephone. I actually liked her more than Amber Gray, who felt like a cartoon when I saw the show on Bwy in 2019.

Rest of cast was OK.

I do still feel like they could have cut maybe 45 minutes out of this show and it would be better.

Interesting to hear reactions at the ending from audience members who don't know the show.

I like to go into shows prepared: knowing the music, knowing the spoilers. I'm a bit surprised that there are people who don't know anything about what they are about to see - especially when it is something that isn't exactly new.

They have to be cutting the turntables. Really interested to see how they’re going to change the choreography. I’ll be seeing this new tour in late October.

Pretty common for these non-Eq tour casts to be young and for direction/choreo to be "based on" the original with a scaled back physical production so they can quickly load in and out of 1-3 night engagements.

Would be tough and expensive to get turntables in and out in such short periods of time.

Updated On: 8/7/24 at 12:58 PM

QueenTwinnied said: "The tour already lost some grandiosity (imo) without the elevator. I can’t imagine how mediocre it will look without the turntable.


Given the schedule I doubt they’ll have the moving walls either. Hopefully the swinging lamps will still be part of the show too."


The swinging lights are probably the easiest part of load in, so they’ll definitely cut those just to spite us.

Call_me_jorge said: "The current non-equity tour is finishing up its first year and will play its final performance in Chicago this weekend. It will go on a 5 month layoff before reopening in LA in October."

I caught the tour in Chicago this weekend. First time seeing the show. Finding out now that it was non-equity makes a lot of sense now, actually.