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Young Actors Needed for "Hadestown" Show

Canton, MI, United States
ID: 279101Exp: 3/5/2025
Description:

Auditions for "Hadestown" teen edition. Seeking young actors. Please see the breakdown below. About the project: This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Recently on Broadway, currently touring and an 8 Tony Award winning musical, follows two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of the 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. Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown. Additional info: Non-Equity. Please prepare a song from the show or similar to, accompanist provided. Please bring your picture and resume, a list of rehearsals conflicts. Please advise of any conflicts prior to tech week at auditions for accommodations. Performances: June 27th, 28th and 29th 2025. If you are interested, please apply.

7 roles

ORPHEUSMale18-19 y.o.All ethnicities

Lyre-playing poet, gifted & naïve (Tenor D3-Eb5).

EURYDICEFemale18-19 y.o.All ethnicities

A runaway, tough & vulnerable (Mezzo-Soprano F#3-D5).

HADESMale18-19 y.o.All ethnicities

Compulsive industrialist, boss-king of Hadestown (Bass F2-C#4).

PERSEPHONEFemale18-19 y.o.All ethnicities

Queen of nature and the seasons, a lush (Mezzo-Soprano/Alto F3-C5).

HERMESMale18-19 y.o.All ethnicities

Charismatic guide and storyteller, mentor to Orpheus (Tenor/Bass C3-B4).

FATESFemale18-19 y.o.All ethnicities

Three sisters, vicious and delicious, voices in the head (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto, range E3-D5 [Fate 1 up to Eb5]).

ENSEMBLEBoth genders18-19 y.o.All ethnicities

A robust ensemble of characters in the dance and acting ensemble.