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Bethany Antonia
HADESTOWN NEW CAST FOR THIRD
YEAR
A host of new faces join the cast
of Hadestown from 10 March at the
Lyric Theatre, as the critically acclaimed
production heads into its third year in
the West End.
Rachel Adedeji will play Persephone.
A finalist on the sixth series of The X
Factor, Rachel went onto starring
in Thriller Live!, Jesus Christ
Superstar and Passing Strange. Bethany
Antonia plays Eurydice, known for
portraying Princess Baela Targaryen in
the HBO fantasy series House of the
Dragon. Marley Fenton is Orpheus,
winner of the 2024 Black British Theatre
Award for Best Supporting Male Actor in
a Musical for his debut role as the Tin
Man in The Wizard of Oz. Alastair
Parker is Hades, whose stage credits
include The Crucible, Royal Shakespeare
Company’s The Magician’s Elephant
and Matilda. Olivier Award winning
actor Clive Rowe will play Hermes. As
well as the regular Pantomime Dame at
the Hackney Empire, he won the Best
Supporting Actor in a Musical Olivier
Award in 1997.
Blending American songwriting
traditions, from indie folk, to pop, blues,
and New Orleans-inspired jazz,
Hadestown has music, lyrics, and book
by acclaimed Tony®and Grammy®winning singer-songwriter and BBC
Radio 2 Folk Award-winner Anaïs
Mitchell who originated Hadestown as
an indie theatre project and acclaimed
album, before transforming the show into
a genre-defying new musical alongside
artistic collaborator and Tony® Awardwinning director Rachel Chavkin.
Hadestown takes you on an
unforgettable journey to the underworld
and back, intertwining two mythic love
stories – that of young dreamers
Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King
Hades and his wife Persephone.
A deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful
theatrical experience, Hadestown invites
you to imagine how the world could be.
Hadestown is produced in London
by Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter
Arnold, Tom Kirdahy and the National
Theatre in association with JAS
Theatricals. The show is now booking
through to Sunday 13 December.
uk.hadestown.com
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Rachel Adedeji
WICKED MAKES HISTORY AT
APOLLO VICTORIA
WICKED, the West End stage musical
phenomenon that tells the incredible
untold story of the Witches of Oz,
became the ninth longest-running
production in West End history in the
autumn. With this milestone, Wicked
also surpassed the original London run
of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight
Express, which previously held the title
of longest-running production at
Wicked’s West End home, the Apollo
Victoria Theatre.
The ten longest-running West End
stage productions in British history are:
The Mousetrap, Les Misérables, The
Phantom of the Opera, The Woman in
Black, Mamma Mia!, Blood Brothers,
The Lion King, Cats, Wicked and
Starlight Express.
Stephen Schwartz and Winnie
Holzman’s celebrated stage musical is
based on the acclaimed novel by
Gregory Maguire and imagines a
beguiling backstory and future
possibilities to the lives of L. Frank
Baum’s beloved characters from The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wicked reveals
the decisions and events that shape the
destinies of two unlikely university
friends on their journey to becoming
‘Glinda The Good’ and the ‘Wicked Witch
of the West’.
Emma Kingston as Elphaba.
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