{"id":2444876,"date":"2019-06-02T08:37:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=843404"},"modified":"2019-06-02T08:37:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:37:41","slug":"watch-hadestown-cast-perform-two-songs-on-cbs-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-hadestown-cast-perform-two-songs-on-cbs-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch \u2018Hadestown\u2019 Cast Perform Two Songs on \u2018CBS This Morning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-02-at-6.55.15-AM-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The cast of <em>Hadestown<\/em> stopped by <em>CBS This Morning<\/em> to perform two songs from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\">Broadway<\/a> show ahead of the Tony Awards on June 9th, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/musical\/\" id=\"auto-tag_musical\" data-tag=\"musical\">musical<\/a> is nominated for 14 awards.<\/p>\n<p>The cast, featuring Fates Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, and Kay Trinidad, sang a funky rendition of \u201cWhen The Chips Are Down\u201d from the Ana\u00efs Mitchell score. Actors Amber Gray, Andr\u00e9 De Shields, and Reeve Carney also performed a striking version of \u201cWait For Me\u201d during their time on the show.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XhgJ5VUy8y8?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Hadestown<\/em> is nominated for awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Choreography, and has garnered the most Tony nominations this year. The duo behind the Broadway musical, creator Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin, also sat down with <em>CBS This Morning<\/em> to discuss <em>Hadestown<\/em>\u2018s journey to success.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWkMglsgUZQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Set in hell and the world above it, <em>Hadestown<\/em> chronicles the Greek-myth of Hades and his wife Persephone while narrating the journey of Orpheus and his ill-fated lover Eurydice. \u201cI started writing [<em>Hadestown<\/em>] in 2006. The piece began as a DIY community theater project in Vermont where I used to live. We rolled around in a school bus that was painted silver, so we would tour around and present it as a concert,\u201d Mitchell recalls.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell first recorded <em>Hadestown<\/em> with Ani DiFranco and Bon Iver\u2019s Justin Vernon in 2010. \u201cBroadway was not in my sights at the time\u2026I didn\u2019t know how badly I wanted it until it happened,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But Mitchell always saw herself more as \u201ca writer than a performer.\u201d \u201cI love that idea of writing a song for someone else to make famous or writing a song so good that no one knew who wrote it, but everyone knows it,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/broadway-hadestown-best-musical-tony-anais-mitchell-842447\/\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hadestown-performance-cbs-this-morning-843404\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cast of Hadestown stopped by CBS This Morning to perform two songs from the Broadway show ahead of the Tony Awards on June 9th, where the musical is nominated for 14 awards. The cast, featuring Fates Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, and Kay Trinidad, sang a funky rendition of \u201cWhen The Chips Are Down\u201d from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 04:22:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}