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Broadway Baritone Paulo Szot Talks Ruling the Underworld in Hadestown and His Tony-Winning Turn in South Pacific

by Jonah De Forest

Tony winner Paulo Szot is ruling Broadway's underworld as Hades in Hadestown at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Broadway.com Editor-in-Chief Paul Wontorek sat down with the dashing baritone to talk about his career and current role. "I think what interests me is to find his humanity, how he communicates and how to understand what's missing there," Szot says of inhabiting the character. One of the most compelling threads…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02am on December 9, 2025