#hadestown musical

[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

[thecrowinacrown]

So.

[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'

[josie-and-the-pussycats-2001]

Reeve Carney (with Eva Noblezada) leaving the Hadestown stage for the final time [x]

[oh-look-another]

i'm a sucker for narrators who are like,,, part of the narrative. they're a part of the story. they may or may not be fundemantal to it, but they influence it one way or another.

[goldfish-inhaler]

the code for making a tragedy that's like crack to me

[suuho]

heavy and hard is the heart of the king, king of iron, king of steel. the heart of the king loves everything, like the hammer loves the nail. but even the hardest of hearts unhardened, suddenly, when he saw her there.

KIM WOO-HYUNG as HADES in HADESTOWN Korea (2021) (insp.)

[kafeino]

… 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞

Finally saw Hadestown a month ago and I’m definitely gonna see it again when I visit London.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was watching a performance of Hadestown but the actor for Orpheus was the only one on stage, and he was doing all the roles and lines single-handedly.

[lilsciencequeen]

Thinking about in Hadestown how it is highly like Orpheus walked for days/weeks to get to Eurydice.

With the idea of the train taking people to Hadestown and Hermes saying "Through the underground, under cover of night Layin' low, stayin' out of sight" implies that he could only do the walk at night. If this was a walk that took a few hours at most then why would it be mentioned. Orpheus at the beginning of act 2 looks exhausted. His clothes are ripped but he is absolutely overjoyed he has made it. That he's there. Walking into Hell is not an easy task and hes done it.

Which makes Doubt Comes In even more painful. If it takes a number of days or weeks for this walk and they have to keep walking then hes spending hours upon hours not being able to check that Eurydice is behind him and having The Fates cast doubt that she's not there. That he's not worthy. Anyone would turn around after being subjected to that.

[sketchbirb]

Drink up, brothers, you know how And spill a drop for Orpheus Wherever he is now...

[ashleyslorens]

TAROT CARDS ✴ HADESTOWN [in/sp]

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

Eurydices

Orpheuses (Orphei?)

Bonus: Hadeses

[toofunktastic]

Miriam Nyarko as Eurydice

[touloserrrr]

[sitpwgs]

it's a sad song, but we sing it anyway cause here's the thing, to know how it ends, and still begin to sing it again, as if it might turn out this time.