#hadestown

[timecrayon]

"Dying a second time, now, there was no complaint to her husband (what, then, could she complain of, except that she had been loved?)"

Dead Boy Detectives (2024) / Hadestown (2016) / Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) / Kaos (2024) / Talk - Hozier / Metamorpheses - Ovid

[rexscanonwife]

Been listening to Epic again

[alyona11]

Hades and Persephone doodle

[writer-of-random-things]

"You're looking too much into Hadestown", they say. Sure but have you considered that the piano notes at the beginning of "All I've Ever Known" are repeated at the end right after Orpheus turns around, at the start of "Road to Hell (Reprise)"? It's played in a different rhythm, but the notes are exactly the same.

The motif of Orpheus & Eurydice's love returns after the inevitable tragedy to try once more. Because maybe it will turn out this time. Maybe he can finally take her home.

It was their love that moved the gods, it was their love that moved the audience; and now, after they lose each other forever, the piano notes tell us that they are going to fall in love again.

[itscosmicnerd]

an (unexpected) autumn equniox visit.

[tessabennet]

[pdouwes]

And what has become of the heart of that man, now that the man is king? What has become of the heart of that man, now that he has everything?

[notquiteaghost]

i cannot be the first person to post this here but i am going so fucking insane about the gaia music collective's one day choir singing wait for me. the opening harmonies are you KIDDING me

[trashpidgeon48]

Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*

[thecrowinacrown]

So.

[icarusdiesatdawn]

greek mythology musicals my beloved

[mishoru]

It's an old tale

[viola-halogen]

Maybe if Orpheus had thrown a grenade at Hades, grabbed Eurydice and legged it then they would have made it.

[dearreader]

i’m going to go lie flat on some train tracks

[aquitainequeen]

If Hadestown has a moral, she says, then it’s “you have to try, you have to have hope, not because success is a given – it’s not. Orpheus fails. We heroicise” – here she breaks off to apologise that jet lag has led to her making up words – “we heroicise Orpheus not because he succeeds but because he tries, and that endeavour alone is worthwhile. How to live, and not merely survive, is to believe things could change.”

Anaïs Mitchell on her musical Hadestown: 'I worked on it so long I was afraid I'd never make another record'