Overview
Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences. The Teen Edition is only available for school and youth groups with performers 19 years old and younger.
Changes made for the Teen Edition include:
- Adjusted vocal arrangements to better accommodate teen voices, including modified FATES features and transposed keys.
- Original five-member WORKER chorus converted into a flexible and expandable SATB WORKER chorus.
- Removal of stage action and language related to substance abuse and sexual references.
- Suggested dialogue and music adjustments for productions utilizing performance tracks.
- “Our Lady of the Underground,” “Nothing Changes” and “We Raise Our Cups” approved as optional cuts for productions utilizing tracks or requiring a shorter run time.
This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.