Hadestown at the Lyric Shaftesbury Avenue review: the catchy score is let down by a meandering, confusing show
Anaïs Mitchell’s folk-rock updating of the Orpheus myth inspires feverish devotion in a substantial swathe of the musical theatre audience. Personally, I don’t get it. The writer-composer’s score is catchy and eclectic but often bombastic, her lyrics pretentious or nonsensical.
The book turns a 20-minute story into a meandering, confused two, a plutocratic God of the Underworld builds a wall to simultaneously keep people in and out of his realm.
