#Rachel chavkin

[swordplease]

I love you stories that know they are stories, i love you breaking the fourth wall, i love you omniscient narrators, i love you circular storytelling, i love you “maybe it will turn out this time”, i love you stories that end by starting over

[queenhelenblackthorn]

WhatsOnStage dropped a star on their Hadestown review because *checks notes* its a greek tragedy

[finleyforevermore]

Poster A:

Poster B:

Please reblog if you vote, and tell me your choice! A "why" would be appreciated but of course isn't necessary! :D

[starry-bite]

thinking about how anaïs mitchell and rachel chavkin's collaboration on hadestown is so close and loving and tender

and about how reeve and chavkin have both said so much that the big orpheus rewrite ultimately made him more expressive of anaïs

and about how chavkin resonates most deeply and personally with eurydice

something something we are drawn to and can't help telling stories with our own spirits in them

the snake eats its tail and the tale begins again

[ourladyofeternity]

From @thewing on Instagram

I’m just gonna cry my heart out, mkay? Bai?

Silly Patrick just for fun

[meerawrites]

Hadestown: we’re gonna sing it again 

“Don’t ask where, brother, don’t ask when…” Hermes sings in our ‘prologue’ of sorts, Road to Hell.

[hadestownreconstruction]

Hadestown Reconstruction Project

Well howdy there! Did you know that this video has a total of ten minutes of footage from the 2007 production of Hadestown? This is, to my knowledge, the only pre-studio album footage available on the Internet.

You might also know that Anaïs Mitchell's book, Working on a Song, contains lyrics from cut and reworked songs? Fragments of those very songs can be found in the video.

With those fragments, and the lyrics given to us in the book, I plan to reconstruct a handful of altered or cut songs from the 2007 era. This project will, assuming I complete it, span a couple of months. I'm gonna start with vocals, and depending on who and what I have available to me, later consider recreating the instrumentals to match.

Songs I plan to recreate include:

Epic I

Way Down Hadestown

Everything Written (including the reprise)

Wait for Me

Cloud Machine

Of course, not all songs are possible to recreate at this intersection. For example, the only footage of Everything Written is of the verse altered for the reprise, which tells me nothing about the melody or rhythm of the body of the song. That one's gonna take some effort.

I've got the lyrics prepared for Epic I, Way Down Hadestown, and Wait for Me pretty much sorted out, and I'll hopefully be recording a one-part track soon.

If anyone knows anything about anything pre-2010 Hadestown, gimme a shout! And of course, stay tuned for more updates to come. Seeya!

[cn11sstuff]

Heeey

It's been a whilee, but I'm looking for a slime tutorial of hadestown with solea pfeiffer, I live on the other side of the world with 0 chances of going to see the show, I'm just really curious. If you have something please let me know!

[abstracted-psychopomp]

don’t talk to me unless it’s about the florence + the machine and rachel chavkin great gatsby musical

[theroysiblings]

oh some of y’all have no idea how genuinely insufferable I can be about musical theater you WILL find out once this is done

[magicisrealandsoismyblog]

Pierre: "You told me once a fallen woman should be forgiven."

Andrey: "But I didn't say I could forgive."

Pierre: "Fine. I'll marry her myself."

[redeyeflyguy]

Wonderful Things That May or May Not Be Wonderful As you might have noticed, I’ve been dabbling in some musical theater songs and even a few musical theater performances. Something I'd only started doing less than a year ago. However, these viewings have only been through "pro shots" (legitimately filmed stage performances) and "slime tutorials" (bootlegs up on Youtube). I hadn't seen any musicals in an actual theater...until last week and BOY, did I pick a good one to be my first: Hadestown. The epic folk opera that combines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with that of Hades and Persephone and sets it in a Great Depression-era post apocalypse. Prior to last week, I had been exposed to this acclaimed work of fiction only through videos by Schaffrillas Productions and then the official Broadway cast recording. Listening to that album, I was sucked into a gripping tale of love, loss and the power of hope told through some absolutely gorgeous vocal performances and compositions. The show itself meanwhile did the exact same but it was further bolstered by fantastic choreography, spectacular set design and just plain old visual context. The point being that whether you simply listen to it, see it in person or experience it via other mean like the original concept album, Hadestown is 100% wonderful guaranteed. It may be a sad song. It may be a tragedy but you should enjoy it anyway. P.S. As for my favorite pieces, I'm gonna have to give to Way Down Hadestown, Chant, Our Lady of the Underground and the absolute showstopper, Wait for Me. Gods that was awesome to see live.

[dailydarcycarden]

Previews for The Thanksgiving Play on Broadway start tonight 3/25/23 @8pm

Via: playbill.com

[barbossas-wench]

Rachel Zegler's Broadway debut and Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin collab again with his new musical adaptation of Black Swan are the best birthday present ever

[starry-bite]

congrats darling eva of course but also can we talk about how there are like 8 new gatsby musicals in the works rn???

[procrastinationaccount]

Forget fan castings, I want Rachel Chavkin to direct a staged version of Gideon the Ninth