NEW YORK - "Hadestown" leads this year's Tony Awards with 14 nominations, the most of any show.

It’s a highly original folk musical based on two mythic tales combining the stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, and Hades and Persephone. 

Two of the show's Tony nominated actors joined NY1 Tuesday on "Your News Live at Noon."

Patrick Page and Amber Gray portray Hades, the god of the underworld, and his wife Persephone, the goddess of spring.

One of the show's songs, "Why we Build the Wall," is often thought as a dig at President Donald Trump.

But as Page told us, it was actually written more than a decade before Trump took office.

"The thing about a wall, is that it's a really powerful image. And it's something that people can understand, and so autocrats and despots since the beginning of time have used walls as a way of trying to say, we'll keep the bad people out and the good people in. And things haven't changed very much," Page said.

"Anais wrote the piece and she would perform it, she would get in a van with her friends and perform it around Vermont. And it was a live piece, and then in 2010 became a concept album, and from there has slowly been developed into a piece of theater starting in 2015," Gray said.

The Tony Awards will be handed out on June 9.