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Allison Russell on What She’s Learned Playing Persephone in ‘Hadestown,’ How a Hozier Connection Helped Land Her Broadway Debut, and Why the Show Feels More Cathartic This Year
Grammy winner Allison Russell discusses being cast as Persephone partly through the prompting of Hozier fans, and the popular impact of 'Hadestown.'
She even found time to work on an upcoming album and memoir while relocated to New York for the duration of the show (and, through all of February thus far, to post daily songs dedicated to Black History Month to her Instagram account from her 46th Street dressing room). Russell has proven a fan favorite among the very avid cult that continues to spread the word on “Hadestown” to a broader audience that has been keeping Anais Mitchell’s show alive and thriving since its 2019 Broadway opening. And Russell, who has written about her own abusive past and personal liberation in two award-winning solo albums, has proven just the conduit to embody both the boozy glee and the underlying trauma that her old friend Anaïs Mitchell wrote for the show’s most conflicted character.
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