As the flamboyant Hermes, Nathan Lee Graham is an engaging guide - knowing and arch and yet caring - but he hews perhaps too closely to the distinctive stamp given the role by its originator, the Broadway legend Andre De Shields, who in 2019 at age 74 won his first Tony Award for playing Hermes. Hannah Whitley's Eurydice, strong of voice and personality, is worthy of his adoration.
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We tallied the votes from this year’s Best of the Capital Region contest in 100 categories.Ĭhibueze Ihuoma, who graduated from NYU's theater program only two years ago, is a compelling actor, but what makes his Orpheus so impressive is his stellar voice, possessed of a flawless falsetto full of both creamy finesses and plaintive beauty. There's enough flexibility from multiple options for entrances and an open central playing space with a rotating floor to suggest many locations as the journeys and confrontations unfold. While the off-Broadway production had the look of a Greek amphitheater, the set on tour (by Rachel Hauck, as on Broadway) looks like a well-worn basement jazz club, perhaps in New Orleans. (The show's title refers to the name of Hades' underworld factory, populated by workers who succumbed as Eurydice did, only to become enslaved.)
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Their romance seems doomed when Eurydice is convinced by Hades and a trio of meddlesome Fates to trade her freedom for the promise of safety and security in the underworld, where Hades rules with his wife, Persephone.īelieving he can free his beloved with a standout song, Orpheus, guitar slung over his shoulder, travels to retrieve her. Mitchell adapted the story of a young couple popular in many mythical stories, Orpheus and Eurydice the former is the ward of the god Hermes, who functions as the show's narrator, and the latter is the impoverished young woman he falls in love with. (A Proctors representative said the replacement was cellist Natalie Spehar, stepping in for the ailing Kely Pinheiro.) There's enough talent in the road company that a last-minute performer substitution, causing a 20-minute starting delay Tuesday, was undetectable from the audience. In the case of "Hadestown," the yearslong investment returns richness in story and song, performed by an onstage ensemble that totals 20: eight principal roles, five chorus members and seven onstage instrumentalists, including a stellar trombonist who also plays glockenspiel and is the assistant conductor (Emily Fredrickson).
Running time: Two and a half hours, including one intermissionĬontinues: 7:30 p.m. Where: Proctors, 432 State St., Schenectady
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