Critical favorite "Hadestown" was the belle of Broadway on theater's
biggest night, taking home eight awards including best musical. "The
Late Late Show" host James Corden returned to emcee the telecast on
CBS that also saw major wins for the sexy, reimagined production of
"Oklahoma," which picked up best revival, and Irish family drama "The
Ferryman," winner of best play.
'Hadestown' cleans up with eight awards, including rare win for female director
Thirteen
years in the making, "Hadestown" is an inventive retelling of the Greek
myth of Orpheus and Eurydice that transplants the action to
post-apocalyptic New Orleans and incorporates elements of jazz, soul and
folk in its music. The show clinched eight of the 14 awards for which
it was nominated, including best score, featured actor André De
Shields and director Rachel Chavkin, the sole woman nominated in the
field. Chavkin used her speech to call for more diversity behind the
scenes, as well as in the people who review theater.
“I
wish I wasn’t the only woman directing a musical on Broadway on
season," she said. "There are so many women who are ready to go. There
are so many artists of color who are ready to go. And we need to see
that racial diversity and gender diversity reflected in our critical
establishment, too. This is not a pipeline issue. It is a failure of
imagination by a field whose job is to imagine the way the world could
be.”
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