A live capture of the Tony Award-winning musical “Hadestown” will make its world premiere as part of the Tribeca Film Festival this summer. “Hadestown: The Musical,” as the film has been dubbed, will have its premiere at the OKX Theatre, inside the Borough of Manhattan Community College’s Tribeca Performing Arts Center, on June 8 at 5 p.m. The premiere will be followed by a special musical performance featuring stars Eva Noblezada and Reeve Carney.
The live capture of “Hadestown” features a unique blend of casts, with a West End ensemble supporting all five original principal cast members from the Broadway production: Carney as Orpheus, Tony Award nominees Noblezada as Eurydice, Amber Gray as Persephone and Patrick Page as Hades, with Tony winner André De Shields as Hermes.
After the premiere, a pair of Tribeca-affiliated screenings will play the Village East by Angelika on June 9 and 12. “Hadestown: The Musical” will then get a full theatrical release on July 24, with a U.K. release expected to follow.
The “Hadestown” film will be distributed by Crosswalk, the event cinema division of Bleecker Street, along with LD Entertainment. It is the first in a series of Broadway captures Crosswalk and LD hope to release together following their collaboration on the event cinema release “Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience.” The “Hadestown” film was directed by Brett Sullivan of Steam Motion and Sound, who has helmed multiple filmed theatrical productions, including the 2016 theatrical release of “Miss Saigon.”
Also representing Broadway at Tribeca will be “Alicia Keys: Girl from Hell’s Kitchen,” a documentary following Keys’ life and career through the creation of the Tony-nominated musical “Hell’s Kitchen.” The documentary will close the festival on June 14. Tony nominee Sara Bareilles will feature in her own documentary, “Sara Bareilles: Good Grief,” following the recording of her follow-up to the 2019 Grammy Award-winning album “Amidst the Chaos.” The documentary film “Time Warp” centers on a drag theater company putting on a shadow cast production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in Rock Springs, Wyoming.
