HCR 9 — House concurrent resolution honoring the Vermonters who created the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown and the Vermont theatrical youth ensembles now staging exhilarating teen performances

R-14State Pageof 1Vermont House of 2Representatives No.Montpelier, Vermont Concurrent House Resolution H.C.R.

R-14.9 Offered by Representatives Chapin of East Montpelier, Birong of Vergennes, Casey of Montpelier, Cordes of Bristol, Donahue of Northfield, Goslant of Northfield, LaMont of Morristown, McCann of Montpelier, McGill of Bridport, Mihaly of Calais, North of Ferrisburgh, and Yacovone of Morristown Offered by Senators Hardy, Perchlik, and Watson House concurrent resolution honoring the Vermonters who created the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown and the Vermont theatrical youth ensembles now staging exhilarating teen performances Whereas, shortly after New Haven’s Anaïs Mitchell graduated from Middlebury College in 2004, she completed the original minimalist version of the future Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Hadestown, a modern rendition of the Greek legend of Orpheus’s ultimately futile journey into the underworld of Hades to return Eurydice, his wife, to the world of the living, and Whereas, in 2006, Anaïs Mitchell;

House concurrent resolution honoring the Vermonters who created the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown and the Vermont theatrical youth ensembles now staging exhilarating teen performances.

(H.C.R.9) Offered by Representatives Chapin of East Montpelier, Birong of Vergennes, Casey of Montpelier, Cordes of Bristol, Donahue of Northfield, Goslant of Northfield, LaMont of Morristown, McCann of Montpelier, McGill of Bridport, Mihaly of Calais, North of Ferrisburgh, and Yacovone of Morristown Offered by Senators Hardy, Perchlik, and Watson Whereas, shortly after New Haven’s Anaïs Mitchell graduated from Middlebury College in 2004, she completed the original minimalist version of the future Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Hadestown, a modern rendition of the Greek legend of Orpheus’s ultimately futile journey into the underworld of Hades to return Eurydice, his wife, to the world of the living, and Whereas, in 2006, Anaïs Mitchell;

Matchstick, co-creator;co- creator;

and other theatrically talented Vermonters premiered Hadestown at the Old Labor Hall in Barre, and in 2013, Anaïs Mitchell, in collaboration with Broadway director Rachel Chavkin, Michael Chorney, and others began revising Hadestown for greater theatrical glory, and East Montpelier’s Robinson Morse has been an on-stage performing musician with the show since at least 2019,2019, and and Whereas, on April 17, 2019, the dream became a reality when Hadestown debuted to rave reviews at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theater, and in June of 2019, the creators’ unusual perseverance was recognized when Hadestown received eight Tony Awards (Broadway’s highest accolade and the most any show won that year), among which were Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical (Rachel Chavkin), Best Original Score (Anaïs Mitchell), and Best Orchestrations (Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose),Sickafoose), and and Whereas, the young thespians of Peoples Academy in Morrisville and the nonprofit Very Merry Theatre in Burlington recently performed a new teen version of this Vermont-created and Tony Award-winning show, and Whereas, under the leadership of U-32 Middle and High School Performing Arts Director Erin Galligan Baldwin, and the unique guidance of Anaïs Mitchell and Ben T.

That the General Assembly honors the Vermonters who created the TonyTony Award-winning Award- winning musical Hadestown and the Vermont theatrical youth ensembles now staging exhilarating teen performances,performances, and and be it further VT LEG #382030 v.1 R-14 Page 2 of 2 Resolved:

Matchstick, Rachel Chavkin, Robinson Morse, Peoples Academy, the Very Merry Theatre, ErinErin Galligan-Baldwin, Galligan-Baldwin, U-32 Middle and High School, and Montpelier High School.

VT LEG #382030 v.1