LOGAN – Broadway will return to the Ellen Eccles Theatre for two evening performances and a single matinee on Monday, Mar. 30 and Tuesday, Mar. 31.
The occasion will be the local premier of the Broadway hit Hadestown, courtesy of the 2025-2026 National Touring Season of the Cache Valley Center for the Arts.
“The award-winning musical by Anaïs Mitchell will be the last show in our CacheARTS Presents national touring season,” according to Wendi Hassan, the CacheARTS executive director.
“It’s one of my personal favorites and a show that’s so popular that we sold out the evening performances on March 30 and 31,” she adds. “But we were fortunate to be able to add a Tuesday matinee. It’s the first time we’ve done three performances of a Broadway touring show.”
Hadestown is a genre-defying 2016 musical that blends modern American folk music with New Orleans-style jazz to transform an ancient myth into a contemporary fable.
Based on the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in the underworld, the plot of Hadestown follows a starving young girl who goes to work in an industrial hell to escape her life of poverty. Orpheus, her singer-songwriter lover, braves the dangers of that world to rescue her.
But his journey is complicated by the tangled relationship of King Hades and his wife Persephone.
Originally conceived in 2006 as a sung-through opera, Hadestown was revised with the addition of songs and dialogue with the help of noted stage director Rachel Chavkin.
In its new format as a musical, Hadestown premiered off-Broadway in 2016 and returned to New York as a Broadway offering in 2019.
The show earned 14 nominations for the 73rd Annual Tony Awards that year and won eight of them, including awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score.
Although the evening performances of Hadestown are sold out, good seats are still available for a 2 p.m. matinee on Tuesday, Mar. 31.
Tickets for that matinee can be obtained by going online to www.cachearts.org
The Ellen Eccles Theatre is located at 43 South Main Street in downtown Logan.