Video: Meet the New Stars of HADESTOWN- Betty Who, Phillip Boykin and Solea Pfeiffer

Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World

Three new stars have joined the Tony Award-winning best musical, Hades Town

Australian pop star Betty Puis, Betty Hu, who's making her Broadway debut, Philip Boykin and Solia Fyfer, and I caught up with all of them here at the Walter Kerr Theater

Okay, Hades Town. Tony Award-winning incredible musical people fly in from all around the world to see it here on Broadway

and now you're a part of this. What that means to you? Say it again

It sounded so good. Wow. It means the world to me. I'm really excited to be in a show that has such a loyal fan base

I mean, a lot of people who I meet at Stage Door have seen the show four, eight, 16 times

You know, people are really, really into the show, and I've seen lots of iterations of it

And so I think the honor it is to sort of be a part of this Lodgea community, I think, is really refreshing for me since my whole career to date has been like

it's my music and it's my willpower and the show does not go on if I'm not on

And so to be a part of something that exists outside of me and just getting to be a part of it feels really

it's like igniting my passion again in a really important way. Welcome home to Broadway and welcome back

Thank you. How does it feel? It feels amazing. It feels so, it was actually, I think, when the announcement came out, a dream of mine kind of came true where I felt like, I was like, wow, I'm really in this community

Oh my God, like everyone online really had me feeling like I was somebody, which was kind of a first where I was like, oh my God

There's all this support and all this excitement. And I think that's the most that you can really hope for in our business

And so I have felt just like so embraced by the fans of this show from Jump and by Eva, who has just been like the most welcoming

It was just like let me know whatever you need And I was like girl Tell me everything You done yes you done it all But this has returning to Broadway with this show

with the show that I have loved for so long and that I really think has kind of instilled a really steadfast faith in this art form

Yeah. It feels amazing. Well, I play Hades in Hades Town. And let's see, what do I love about him

I love everything about him. I love his journey from trying to please Persephone with material things

And he finds out that she, that's not what she wants. She wants his heart

She wants that love that they had in the beginning. when he met her in her mother's garden

and that's what she's after. But, you know, men sometimes they get blinded by their status

and their ego is, they think that's what women want from them

but what they want is their heart. I've had a lot of people at the stage door

come to me in tears, saying that they've been married for several years

and they wish that their husband could express the love that they know that they have inside

They wish that he could express it the way Hades does and rekindle what they once had

and maybe do that wonderful dance that we do in the show Because of your success as a pop star many people will come to see you who have never seen a live show before a live musical

And, you know, we all remember that first time. What that means to have introducing a whole new audience to the theater and to Hades Town and to watch you do this

It's strange to have people come to the show wearing the Betty Who shirts. Because I look out and I'm like, wait, but that's not me currently

because look at this wig. Like, this is not Betty Who. So I think that it's an interesting experience

It must be from an audience member's perspective because you come expecting to see me and you see a whole different

You get taken on a journey that's totally different. And so I think that, I mean

I remember my first, the first time I saw Wicked. I was 16 and I saw the touring company with Annalee Ashford

as Golinda changed my life. I'm obsessed with her. And so I remember seeing Wicked for the first time at 16

and feeling like totally taken over by the experience. And so if I am responsible for bringing somebody

to see their first musical theater performance on Broadway where it's the best version of it

on the entire planet, you know, that to me that I get to be a part of that still blows my mind

And I, especially young people, I love leaving an impression, because when you show kids the magic that theater can be

it stays with them for the rest of their lives, because I know what that feels. like. Can you sum up so far what it means to being a part of the Hades Town family

It is a responsibility that I take very, very seriously because I know that the fan base of this show

from what I've gathered seems to be a lot of people who were like me when they were kids

who kind of felt like they were on the outskirts of things, maybe didn't feel like they'd found

their group And I know what Eurydice means to you all and I want to provide that space Like my DMs are full of just you know beautiful messages

and the letters that I get from people who tell me what this show means to them

I don't take that lightly in the least. And so to be a part of this family is such an honor

To be a part of this legacy feels really, you know, how many people can say that they've been, you know, a part of the show

of a show that really stood the test of time in this way. You know, and it's a sisterhood too

There's all these people who have played Euritacy now, who each have been so unique and have their own individual take on the role

And so I share this with all of them. And, yeah, I'm honored beyond measure

I think it has changed my perspective about a lot of the things

and the reasons I got into doing what I do. I think that being a part of a show like this

that I ultimately believe is a metaphor for life and death and for, you know, believing in ourselves

and not letting negative self-talk drive our entire lives, which is such an artist's experience

And so I learn things from the show every night doing it that I still are processing and sinking in

And so I think that being a part of something that is this important and this beautifully told and extensively thought through

everything happens for a reason. And as an artist that, you know

is trying to build my own world so much of the time, being one of many who has this shared goal

of bringing this story to life, I think it will not only, has already

but will not only change me forever, but I think change the way I make aught forever. And I hope to, you know, it's also made me realize

how much I really, uh-oh, I think I love this. Uh-oh. you will be back

Yeah, I think so