"Hadestown" Popularity Leaves Playwrights Scrambling to Write Musical About Zeus's Weird Sex Stuff
by Adam Bakst. @AdamBakst_WUSF. CHICAGO - After the enormous success of Hadestown, a musical adaptation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, aspiring playwrights have been scrambling to follow that lead by pushing out as many plays adapting Zeus's strange sexual history as they can think of, sources confirmed. "I've been reading tons of textbooks all about Greek mythology," claimed Justin Carey, a theater arts major…