PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — “Hadestown,” the Tony- and Grammy-winning musical about two classic Greek love stories, arrived on tour in Philadelphia last week.
The cast includes an Ardmore native, Bex Odorisio, starring as one of the three Fates — a member of a literal Greek chorus representing the character’s moral consciences.
Listen to Odorisio on KYW Newsradio’s daily news podcast, The Jawncast, below:
The story of “Hadestown” follows Orpheus and Eurydice as they fall in love and journey to the underworld, where Hades and Persephone are having their own marital troubles. It’s a tale you've probably heard before, but this production gives it new life.
“What this production has done is, I think, given it illustration,” Odorisio said. “Everything is drawn out so beautifully, kind of like a storybook, and it’s sung so beautifully.”
A graduate of Lower Merion High School, Odorisio credits the school’s theater program, the Lower Merion Players, with inspiring her career.
“It encompasses not just performing but all the forms of design and stage managing and directing and props and publicity,” she said. “It really gave young students a comprehensive idea of what theater could be like.”
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It will be a busy schedule for the cast, with roughly 15 shows between opening and closing nights, but Odorisio is making sure she has time off-stage to revisit some of her favorite spots in Ardmore.
“I'm already planning my little day trip out to Ardmore on the R5,” she said — she’ll always go by the old Regional Rail names. “We’re going to have lunch at Maido on Lancaster Avenue. We’re going to go to the Suburban Square Farmers Market.
“All my old haunts are very, very dear to me.”
Hadestown is on stage at the Academy of Music now through Feb. 20. Tickets are available here.
For more on Odorisio’s role in this tour of “Hadestown,” listen to The Jawncast below: