A Pro-Shot for the Ages: My Film Review of “Hadestown: The Musical”
To the world we dream about and the one we live in now.
That quote hits even harder now than it did a decade ago. And never has a 21st century musical masterpiece like Hadestown shined beyond the stage with this cinematic ProShot recording of a performance filmed in London’s West End, being released a week after Christopher Nolan unleashed his own take on another epic story in Ancient Greek history. Director Brett Sullivan and his crew that brought the sheer Broadway greatness of Waitress to the screen handles Anaïs Mitchell‘s material with care, as most of the original cast, including Reeve Carney (Orpheus), Eva Noblezada (Eurydice), Andre De Shields (Hermes), Patrick Page (Hades) and Amber Gray (Persephone) reprise the roles that they made famous as if they were playing them for the first time once again. The cinematography and color grading are top-notch, bringing you into the story in a way never thought possible. Highly recommended for fans of the material, for reference for theater companies around the world getting ready to soon put their own productions (currently of the Teen Edition) and for those that love modern/creative takes of Greek mythology.
