Anaïs Mitchell with Patrick Page: Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown

Join singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and Tony award-nominated actor Patrick Page to celebrate the release of Anaïs' book Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown!
Purchase a copy of the book here: bit.ly/2Xd5MlR
A stunning book of lyrics from Hadestown, the winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, annotated and explained by the playwright and lyricist herself.
On Broadway, this modern telling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has been a runaway success. Heralded as “The best new musical of the season,” by the Wall Street Journal, and “Sumptuous. Gorgeous. As good as it gets,” by the New York Times, this show is the breakout hit of 2019, and is positioned to be a longtime Broadway favorite with its poignant social commentary (a true “climate change” musical), to the tune of spellbinding music and lyrics.
In this book, Anais Mitchell takes readers inside her 12 year process of writing, scoring, and singing this musical-her inspiration, breaking down the lyrics, and offering thoughtful annotations of Hadestown. Fans of the musical will love this all access, backstage pass to the year’s number one musical.
Anaïs Mitchell is a singer-songwriter who comes from the world of narrative folksong, poetry, and balladry. Among her recorded works are six full-length albums including the original studio album of Hadestown (2010, featuring Justin Vernon and Ani DiFranco); Young Man in America (2012); and Bonny Light Horseman (2020, with folk band Bonny Light Horseman). Mitchell has headlined concerts around the world. Awards include a Tony Award for Best Score for Hadestown. Her albums have been featured in year-end best lists including NPR, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, and Sunday Times. Hadestown is Mitchell’s first musical.
Patrick Page received a Tony Award nomination for his work in Hadestown on Broadway after starring as Hades in the off-Broadway, Citadel Theatre and National Theatre productions. Other Broadway: The Inquisitor in Saint Joan, Valentina in Casa Valentina, Buckley in Time to Kill, Adult Men in Spring Awakening, DeGuiche in Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar, Scar in The Lion King, The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, and Mackie in The Kentucky Cycle. Other New York: Cymbeline in Cymbeline (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacort), Max in The Sound of Music (Carnegie Hall). Regional: Page recently created the roles of Dom Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse, and Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic in Rajiiv Joseph’s Archduke at the Mark Taper Forum. He is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe in San Diego (Cyrano, Malvolio), and the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C. (Coriolanus, Prospero, Macbeth, Iago, Claudius). Television: recurring roles on Elementary, Madam Secretary, Flesh and Bone and guest starring roles on Evil, NCIS: New Orleans, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Chicago P.D., and Law and Order: S.V.U.
Recorded October 7, 2020

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Thanks for posting. Hadestown was the last musical I saw before the Covid shutdown and it's still fresh in my mind close to a year later. Hopefully Broadway will be back sooner than later.

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omg what a gem of a talk! thank you for this