Twenty years after seeing her first musical at Playhouse Square, 22-year-old Hannah Whitley will be be on stage at the Connor Palace playing the lead role of Eurydice in the national tour of “Hadestown.”
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- 20 years ago, Jessica Whitley took her two-year-old daughter, Hannah, to Playhouse Square to see her first musical, “The Lion King.” On January 31, Jessica, a physician from Twinsburg, will once again be in the audience at Playhouse Square.
The bulk of Hannah’s training came at Ball State University in Indiana, where she graduated last May with a degree in musical theater. She was living at home in Twinsburg preparing a move to New York City when she received the call in August that she had booked “Hadestown.” By October, she was on the road performing eight shows a week.
“What I loved about it is that it felt like home,” she said. “I saw Amber Gray up on stage playing Persephone and I was like, ‘Oh my God, she looks like me.’ It’s really one of those shows that everybody can see themselves in these characters.” Twinsburg's Hannah Whitley stars as Eurydice in the North American tour of "Hadestown," playing the Connor Palace in Playhouse Square Jan. 31-Feb. 19.
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