{"id":313517,"date":"2026-08-04T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313517\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T16:18:09","slug":"ben-davis-to-join-hadestown-broadway-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313517\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Davis to join &#8216;Hadestown&#8217; Broadway cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet your new god of the underworld: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/ben-davis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Davis<\/a> will join the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/14748-hadestown-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hadestown<\/a> on Broadway at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/venues\/walter-kerr-theatre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Kerr Theatre<\/a> starting September 1 alongside four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/theatre-news\/news\/hadestown-names-new-broadway-cast-including-jasmin-savoy-brown-norbert-leo-butz-amber-iman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously announced<\/a> new stars.<\/p>\n<p>Davis (Ragtime, Dear Evan Hansen, Les Mis\u00e9rables), a Tony Honoree for Excellence in Theatre, will play Hades opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/kayko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayko<\/a> as Orpheus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/jasmin-savoy-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jasmin Savoy Brown<\/a> as Eurydice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/norbert-leo-butz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Norbert Leo Butz<\/a> as Hermes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/stars-on-stage\/amber-iman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Iman<\/a> as Persephone. Geno Segers, who was initially cast as Hades alongside them, withdrew from the production on August 2.<\/p>\n<p>Hadestown is a sung-through, folk-and-jazz retelling of Greek mythology, centered on the tragic young lovers Orpheus and Eurydice. Created by Ana\u00efs Mitchell and directed by Rachel Chavkin, the eight-time Tony-winning musical has run on Broadway since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/14748-hadestown-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hadestown tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p>*Photo credit: Ben Davis. (Photo courtesy of production)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meet your new god of the underworld: Ben Davis will join the cast of Hadestown on Broadway at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-313517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}