HADESTOWN
TEEN EDITION
AUDITIONS
All students must fill out the audition form & submit video auditions even if they only want to be in ensemble.
Step 1: Review Character list & decide what 3 lead roles you would like to audition for.
Step 2: Practice the audition cut song for that particular character/s (You can audition for 3 or less)
Step 3: Record your audition Cuts. (Minimum one song) All should be seperate videos.
Step 5: Fill out the audition form.
Step 6: Submit your videos in one of the 2 ways I mention in the form.
Step 7: All Done! Now you wait for callback information.
All Videos must be submitted by February 15th 2026
CHARACTER LIST & SONG CUTS
HERMES
[HERMES] Chugga chugga chugga chugga Chugga chugga chugga chugga [HERMES & Chorus] Chugga chugga chugga chugga Chugga chugga chugga chugga [HERMES] Once upon a time there was a railroad line Don't ask where, brother, don't ask when It was the road to Hell, it was hard times It was a world of gods...and men! On the road to Hell there was a railroad line (mmm) And a poor boy workin' on a song La, la, la, la, la, la His mama was a friend of mine And this boy was a muse's son On the railroad line on the road to Hell (mmm) You might say the boy was touched La, la, la, la, la, la Cause he was touched by the gods themselves! Give it up for Orpheus! (Mmm, mmm, mmm) Orpheus! There was one more soul on this road Girl, come on in from the cold! On the railroad line on the road to Hell (mmm) There was a young girl looking for something to eat! (mMm) And brother, thus begins the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice! (Mmm, mmm, mmm) It's a love song It's a love song! It's a tale of a love from long ago It's a sad song It's sad song! But we're gonna sing it even so It's an old song It's an old song! It's an old tale from way back when And we're gonna sing We're gonna sing We're gonna sing it again Again Again, yeah
ORPHEUS
King of silver, king of gold And everything glittering under the ground Hades is king of oil and coal King of mortar, king of bricks The River Styx is a river of stones And Hades lays them high and thick With a million hands that are not his own With a million hands, he builds a wall Around all of the riches he digs from the earth The pickaxe flashes, the hammer falls And crashing and pounding His rivers surround him And drown out the sound of the song he once heard La-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la
EURYDICE
Dreams are sweet until they're not Men are kind until they aren't Flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart Is anybody listening? I open my mouth And nothing comes out Nothing, nothing gonna wake me now Flowers I remember fields Of flowers Soft beneath my heels Walking in the sun I remember someone Someone by my side Turned his face to mine And then I turned away Into the shade You, the one I left behind If you ever walk this way Come and find me Lying in the bed I made
PERSEPHONE
[Persephone:] Well, it's like he said, I'm an outdoor girl [Company cheers & chatters in the background] [Hermes:] And you're late again [Persephone:] Married to the king of the underworld [Hermes:] She forgot a little thing called spring [Persephone:] Are you wondering where I've been? [Company:] Yeah Where've ya been? [Hermes:] I'm wondering [Persephone:] I've been to hell and back again But like my mama always said [Hermes:] A'ight [Persephone:] Brother, when you're down, you're down And when you're up, you're up If you ain't six feet underground You're livin' it up on top Let's not talk about hard times All the whining, so entitled [Company cheers] [Persephone:] Right now we're livin' it [Hermes & Company:] How are we livin' it? [Persephone:] Livin' it, livin' it up Brother, right here we're livin' it [Hermes & Company:] Where are we livin' it? [Persephone:] Livin' it up on top Who makes the summer sun shine bright? That's right, Persephone Who makes the food of the viking rise? [Company:] Persephone [Persephone:] That's me Who makes the flowers bloom again In spite of her man [Company:] You do [Persephone:] Who is doing the best she can Persephone, that's who Now some may say The weather ain't the way it used to be But let me tell you something that my momma said to me You take what you can get And you make the most of it So right now we're livin' it [Hermes & Company:] How are we livin' it? [Persephone:] Livin' it, livin' it up Brother, right here we're livin' it [Hermes & Company:] Where are we livin' it? [Persephone:] Livin' it up on top
HADES
Hey, little songbird, give me a song I’m a busy man and I can’t stay long I got clients to call, I got orders to fill I got walls to build, I got riots to quell And they’re giving me hell back in Hades Hey, little songbird, cat got your tongue? Always a pity for one so pretty and young When poverty comes to clip your wings And knock the wind right out of your lungs Hey, nobody sings on empty
FATE 1
Take if you can Give if you must Ain't nobody but yourself to trust What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? Aim for the heart Shoot to kill If you don't do it then the other one will What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? And the first shall be first And the last shall be last Cast your eyes to heaven You get a knife in the back Nobody's righteous Nobody's proud Nobody's innocent Now that the chips are down Now that the Now that the Now that the Now that the Now that the chips are down
FATE 2
Take if you can Give if you must Ain't nobody but yourself to trust What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? Aim for the heart Shoot to kill If you don't do it then the other one will What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? And the first shall be first And the last shall be last Cast your eyes to heaven You get a knife in the back Nobody's righteous Nobody's proud Nobody's innocent Now that the chips are down Now that the Now that the Now that the Now that the Now that the chips are down
FATE 3
Take if you can Give if you must Ain't nobody but yourself to trust What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? Aim for the heart Shoot to kill If you don't do it then the other one will What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? What you gonna do when the chips are down? Now that the chips are down? And the first shall be first And the last shall be last Cast your eyes to heaven You get a knife in the back Nobody's righteous Nobody's proud Nobody's innocent Now that the chips are down Now that the Now that the Now that the Now that the Now that the chips are down
WORKERS
Because we have and they have not! Because they want what we have got! The enemy is poverty And the wall keeps out the enemy And we build the wall to keep us free That's why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free We build the wall to keep us free!