Lola Tung is set to make her Broadway Debut February 9 as she takes over the role of Eurydice in “Hadestown.” This news comes after the announcement that Solea Pfeiffer, who is currently playing Eurydice, will make her final performance in the show February 4.
The show itself has won 8 Tony awards, including best musical.
Tung will be a part of a limited run of the show, with her last performance being March 17.
“I saw the show with my dad back in February of 2020 and immediately became a fan,” Tung explains in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Every character in the show is so special and unique. Eurydice is someone who tends to keep to herself but has so much love in her heart, so it’s incredibly beautiful and moving to watch her journey.”
Also in the show is Jordan Fisher as Orpheus, Phillip Boykin as Hades, and Lilias White as Hermes, as well as joining cast member Ani DiFranco to play Persephone.
Tung first got her big break in the film industry after starring in the adaptation of the book series “The Summer I Turned Pretty” on Amazon Prime. Before that, she studied at New York’s famous LaGuardia High School, which is the same school that is filmed in “Fame.”
“I don’t know that Broadway became my goal because of the school that I went to, but it definitely made me love theater even more, which made it even clearer that this was something I wanted to pursue,” Tung told EW.
Tickets are on sale now at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City.
