‘Hadestown: The Musical’ Review: Captures the Crowd-Pleasing Vibrance of the Mythological New Orleans-Meets-Rock Opera Stage Show

"Hadestown," with its free-form jamboree vibe, its spontaneous swirl of musicians and dancers onstage, is arsenic overmuch a happening arsenic it is simply a musical. It’s a amusement astir past mythology — it tells the communicative of Orpheus and Eurydice, which it interweaves with the communicative of Hades and Persephone. That sounds daunting, but "Hadestown," with its book, music, and lyrics by Anaïs Mitchell, succeeds successful making those myths consciousness timeless, which of people they are. It’s a amusement astir love, but much than that it’s a amusement astir faith.