Move Quickly, Or You’ll Have A Hades Of A Time Getting Tickets To A Broadway Sacramento Show This Season
Hadestown runs through Sunday, September 24, but tickets are limited. The same’s true of their next show, Les Miserables!
I’ve scrapped plans to share details on last night’s opening of HADESTOWN, which opened Broadway On Tour’s 2023 / 24 season. I don’t even want to talk about it.
Why? Because the show is FABULOUS!
So, then, you ask, why don’t you want to tell us about it, MPC?
According to the folks at Broadway Sacramento, HADESTOWN is pretty close to being sold out, for the entire run, through September 24.
If you don’t have your tickets already, and aren’t one of the lucky few who’ll scoop up those few remaining seats, that’s a bummer.
After seeing HADESTOWN last night, I realize that the lucky ones are REALLY lucky! If you get to see it, you’ll understand how the show won eight Tony Awards in 2019, including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It’s described as “a love story for today…that invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back” and pits “…industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.”
I can sum all of that up in one word: wow! This production of HADESTOWN is, quite simply, immaculately acted and sung. I hesitate to call out standouts, which include Nathan Lee Graham, Matthew Patrick Quinn, and J. Antonion Rodriguez, but Hannah Whitley blew my mind. You’ll fall in love with her just as Orpheus does.
Well, hell, since I’m mentioning standouts…Maria-Christina Oliveras’ Persephone almost stole the show at the beginning of the second act, with “Our Lady Of The Underground. And I’ve never heard more glorious three-part harmonies than those of Dominque Kemph, Belén Moyano, and Nyla Watson.
(And I have to get a quick shout out to fellow University of Michigan alumnus Sevon Askew, in his national tour debut! Go Blue!!)
But if you don’t already have your tickets, you probably don’t want to hear any of that.
I hate to be a Grinch about all of this (and if that isn’t foreshadowing, I don’t know what is!), but if you’re a musical theatre fan, the news may get even worse: Broadway On Tour’s next production, LES MISERABLES will most likely be sold out by the time that production launches on October 24.
News is a bit better for the balance of Broadway On Tour’s 2023 / 24 season. As of today, there are great seats still available for you and your family for the balance of this year’s Broadway On Tour productions, including AIN’T TOO PROUD (the story of Motown’s legendary The Temptations!), DR. SUESS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! THE MUSICAL, JAGGED LITTLE PILL, SIX THE MUSICAL, and ANNIE.
No cap, ‘cause that’s how we roll here at THE HUB: this Broadway On Tour season is NOT the one for which to buy tickets on CP time. Get your tickets today for the show of your choice, or the balance of the season, at broadwaysacramento.com.
And if you really want to check out HADESTOWN (I would!) and LES MISERABLES, and you’re not picky about your seats, give it a shot. After all, as Grandma Coleman used to say (I didn’t know she was quoting R.J. Smith when she did it):
“Nothing beats a failure but a try!”
Michael P Coleman is a freelance content creator and a quickly evolving theater snob — you should see the shirt he wore to last night’s HADESTOWN premiere! — with whom you can connect at MichaelPColeman.com.
