He’s coming! John-Michael Lyles (A Strange Loop, The Heart of Rock and Roll) joined the cast of the Tony-winning Best Musical Hadestown in the role of Orpheus June 16 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Get a first look at Lyles and the current company in the gallery below.
Lyles succeeded Joshua Colley (Descendants: The Rise of Red, Sex Appeal, Newsies),
who played his final performance May 31. Jeffrey Cornelius and Brandon Cameron performed the role of Orpheus in the interim period.
The current Broadway cast also features Gary Dourdan as Hades, J. Harrison
Ghee as Hermes, Gaby Moreno as Persephone, and Jordan Tyson as
Eurydice. They are joined by Jewelle Blackman, Jessie Shelton, and Kay
Trinidad as the Fates. The chorus of Workers is played by Malcolm
Armwood, Sojourner Brown, Cornelius, Sydney Parra, and Alex Puette. The
company also includes swings Cameron, KC Dela Cruz, Max Kumangai, and
Alex Lugo.
Purchase Hadestown memorabilia in the Playbill Store.
Singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell’s folk- and jazz-infused musical
layers the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with that of Hades and
Persephone, intertwining the actions—and consequences—of gods and
mortals. Hadestown originally began as a theatrical concert performed by Mitchell.
The creative team features Tony-winning set designer Rachel Hauck,
Tony-nominated costume designer Michael Krass, Tony-winning lighting
designer Bradley King, Tony-winning sound designers Nevin Steinberg and
Jessica Paz, choreographer David Neumann, and dramaturg Ken Cerniglia.
Musical supervision and vocal arrangements are by Liam Robinson, with
arrangements and orchestrations by Tony winners Michael Chorney and Todd
Sickafoose.
The show, featuring a book and score by Mitchell, won eight 2019 Tony
Awards: Best Director of a Musical (Rachel Chavkin), Best Featured
Actor in a Musical (André De Shields), Best Lighting Design of a Musical
(Bradley King), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Rachel Hauck), Best
Sound Design of a Musical (Jessica Paz and Nevin Steinberg), Best
Orchestrations (Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose), Best Original
Score (Mitchell), and Best Musical.
Hadestown is also currently in its third year in the West
End (the musical returned to London six years after its 2018 engagement
at the National Theatre). The record-breaking North American tour
completed its coast-to-coast three-year run in 2024, and productions opened across the globe in Sydney, Melbourne, and Amsterdam last
year.