#hades ht

[pristina-nomine]

every tumblr problematic fave ever

[finleyforevermore]

⭐HADESTOWN DREAM CAST⭐

Justin Cooley (top) or Ben Levi Ross (bottom) as Orpheus

Chibueze Ihouma as Orpheus in the picture.

Bryce Charles (top), Rachel Zegler (middle), or Kendyl Sayuri Yokoyama (bottom) as Eurydice

Eva Noblezada as Eurydice in the picture.

Josh Groban (top) or Norm Lewis (bottom) as Hades

Tom Hewitt as Hades in the picture.

Adrianna Hicks (top), Amina Faye (middle), or Danielle Brooks (bottom) as Persephone

Maria-Christina Oliveras as Persephone in the picture.

Patina Miller (top) or James Monroe Iglehart (bottom) as Hermes

Nathan Lee Graham as Hermes in the picture.

Joaquina Kalukango, Samantha Pauly, and Andrea Macasaet as The Fates (Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis respectively)

Amelia Cormack, Lindsey Hailes, and Brit West as The Fates in the picture.

Theatre credits under the cut.

THEATRE CREDITS:

Justin Cooley - Seth in Kimberly Akimbo

Ben Levi Ross - Henry in Next to Normal, Evan in Dear Evan Hansen

Bryce Charles - Wendy Darling in Lythgoe Panto's Peter Pan

Rachel Zegler - Maria in Spielberg's West Side Story

Kendyl Sayuri Yokoyama - Angelica/Eliza/Peggy/Maria standby in Hamilton

Josh Groban - Pierre in Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812, Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Norm Lewis - Erik in The Phantom of The Opera, Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

Adrianna Hicks - Catherine of Aragon in Six, Sugar in Some Like It Hot

Amina Faye - Jane Seymour in Six

Danielle Brooks - Sofia in The Color Purple

Patina Miller - Leading Player in Pippin, The Witch in Into the Woods

James Monroe Iglehart - Genie in Aladdin, Lafayette/Jefferson in Hamilton

Joaquina Kalukango - Nettie in The Color Purple, Nelly O'Brien in Paradise Square, The Witch in Into the Woods

Samantha Pauly - Katherine Howard in Six

Andrea Macasaet - Anne Boleyn in Six

[kafeino]

Found old Hadestown art. My peak.

[holly-mckenzie]

I’m not like any man you’ve met. Oh yeah? What makes you different? You see the world? Of course I do. I’ll make it beautiful for you. For you I’ll change the way it is. With what? [ORPHEUS, holds up guitar] With this!

It’s an old song It’s an old tale from way back when It’s an old song And we’re gonna sing it again and again... It’s a sad song.. It’s a sad tale, it’s a tragedy.

nytw hadestown appreciation  →  The Tragedy of Orpheus

[alyona11]

*gently holds*

[tabooiart]

hey gang im about to start working on a small hadestown project but eurydice is giving me trouble, color-wise. give me your thoughts!

[hollow-triad]

“?” x Hadestown’s Song “Epic I”

The Tale of Namor and Shuri

Inspired by @fandomsleaveuemotionallyscarred

“?” as Orpheus // Nakia as Hermes

⋆zaky♔’s fanart used for album cover

[mvndrvke]

ngl i kinda miss writing the fates/the bullet

[hadestownreconstruction]

So I finally got to see Hadestown live when it toured in my town and now I'm back on my Hadestown bullshit, and to find out you are compiling lost songs and everything from the show just has me over the moon!! I've seen several posts where you encourage folks to ask questions and I don't even know where to begin-- I want to know everything!!

Do you have a Google drive or anything where you keep notes and lyrics and stuff as you find it? I have a copy of working on a song but do you also have lyrics that were not included in that? And were there actually different possible endings to the show?

Okay I know this is late and I’m SO sorry about that, but I’ll answer what I can?

- No, I don’t have anywhere I keep my stuff. Since you sent this I made a folder in Google drive with some useful links (thx for that idea btw lol), and if I remember to do so, I’ll keep adding things on! But for now the only organization is the disorganization of my mind, alas.

- There is a little bit of direct content that’s not in WoaS, but that stuff’s hard to find. I’d suggest starting with the highlight reel from 2007 HT, and the 2007 and 2006 photo archives. Also, check out ‘#cerberus hadestown’ on this blog for more info on them.

- There were other endings, sort of. At the end of the day, Orpheus has always turned around. But what bits we have of the 2012 workshop show a little bit post-turn with Hermes and Orpheus (the precursor to Road II, I suspect), and according to Ben t. Matchstick’s Instagram in another version (which I also heavily suspect to be 2012) has Hades’s guards (the Cerberus triad, as opposed to Sara Grace’s Cerberus) deciding to stop protecting him from the rioting Workers. But at the end of the day, Orpheus turns. He must always turn.

I get the feeling of having so many questions, but no clue what to ask. Hopefully this has given you something to stand on, so to speak. You got follow up questions, you know where to ask! Enjoy!

[occupyhades]

Headed for the Pit: The Harvest Moon Special

Treat older women as you would your mother, and treat younger women with all purity as you would your own sisters. 1 Timothy 5:2 (NLT) ✝

The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him. Proverbs 5:22 (BSB) ✝

The Righteous One knows what is going on in the homes of the wicked; he will bring disaster on them. Proverbs 21:12 (NLT) ✝

Let those who are experts at cursing— whose cursing could rouse Leviathan— curse that day. Job 3:8 (NLT) ✝

Those whose names were not found in the Book of Life were thrown into the fiery lake. Apocalypse 20:15 (GWT) ✝

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire. Apocalypse 20:14 (BSB) ✝

[pristina-nomine]

Concept album Hades and Persephone

[finleyforevermore]

Kimberly Marable as Persephone. That's it, that's the post.

[thirteendaysintaunton]

i like the idea of hades never finding out about the time loop in ht but i’m also wondering if he does realise at some point in the show. for instance, in his kiss, the riot when he’s trying to think of what to do he does that “and doubt comes... (pause) (realization) doubt comes in...” and that could be interpreted as him realising/geting an inkling that maybe this has all happened before, why does this idea feel so familiar

[alyona11]

Hi! So I am very new to Hadestown and I am watching the bootleg. I really love the dynamic between Hades and Persephone, but there is one thing that kind of rub me in not so good way, is Hey Little Song Bird implied that Hades and Eurydice slept together? I am seeing a lot of interpretation and it genuinely confused the hell out of me asdfghk

Hi! Well, tbf it's a tricky question, but the short answer is that Hadestown suggests that something might have happened behind closed doors. The rest is up to audience and actor's interpretation.

For example, Anaïs Mitchell often mentions in Working On a Song that in early workshops she often went with the idea that Hades cheats and pretty regularly even though these affairs mean nothing to him since the only person he loves is Persephone. It even had a cut song:

In her early drafts/productions of Hadestown you can often get the vibe that from her point of view it doesn't matter as much because they are eternal beings and love each other since the world began so does it even matter for them?

However, by NYTW this story line was cut apart from Persephone's line in How Long:

"I don't mind if you look at other girls, now and then"

"The girl means nothing to me"

"I know"

Plus the staging in NYTW Papers and Hades' protective peacock behavior with Eurydice around Orpheus in the scene also gives you a thought that they might have had an affair? Plus some bits like the fact that she has a line in Why We Build a Wall and her words "But don't you see? That's different with me!" - "Different than who? They thought they were different too!" Could also be interpreted as Hades suggesting some special conditions by granting her a role of a romantic interest. Whether the interest is real or not and did he use it or not is again up to your interpretation of NYTW Hades. He is more of a morally dubious guy (as all ht Hades are) so it's more up to you to either believe he would have cheated to put Persephone in her place or would just use showing off Eurydice as a brutal way to get Persephone's interest.

As for Broadway, I think it's still suggested and you can find profs in the lyrics but I think that they are what they are - suggestive and leave you to interprete it whichever way you feel comfortable. I think the biggest suggestion remains in Flowers with the line:

'I trembled when he laid me out

"You won’t feel a thing," he said, "when you go down"'

Which kinda can have a death meaning and sex meaning, tbf someone could have written a good article on how those topics are connected in Hadestown. So here, again chose one of the two or both.

But again, Broadway also changed the lyrics in How Long and the whole staging in Papers so it's less suggestive.

My personal opinion based on Broadway production is that it all depends on how the actor plays it and whether you believe this particular Hades is the type to sleep with Eurydice to get Persephone's attention and prove he is still attractive or he is more of a person who doesn't care about having the affair and his only goal is to get Persephone to react somehow by composing such a messed up hurtful plan. Personally, I prefer the second option maybe because I'm a pussy or maybe because I see Hades (whom I mostly base on Patrick Page ht Broadway previews) like a person who is desperate to get Persephone's attention in such a radical way like a cat pushing objects from your table to see your reaction. He wants to be stopped, he wants any reaction from Persephone. He even touches her by the shoulder before going into the office like "Look!! Look! I'm absolutely totally leaving! To cheat! See! Hey come on! I'll even take off my tie to show that I'm serious! Don't you wanna stop me???". Seems kinda way too extra to me. Like he could have just gotten to the office after parading a pretty girl in front of her and it would be understood that it's for an affair. But he takes so much time to make sure she understands that he can find himself someone when all he wants is for her to come back to him with open arms. I'm not sure he has the guts to actually damage his relationship to an irreversible degree (considering Broadway Hades is never stated as a cheater before the Eurydice sub-plot). Like it's one thing to take a mortal before her time and parade her in front of your wife (because what is a mortal life after all?) as a "replacement" and it's the other way to actually cheat on her and deal with the fact that she might never forgive him again if it is a deal-breaker for her considering they seem to be true to each other for all these years.

One interesting thing to note here as well is how Hades actors play the reaction to Persephone's line in How Long:

"He has the kind if love that you and I once had"

Because his instant reaction is "OH SHIT once had?? Does she think I don't love her still?? OH SHIT I BROUGHT THE GIRL THIS IS WHY SHE MIGHT THINK THAT", so he answers to that:

"The girl means nothing to me!"

Depending on the actor and she show the line sounds either scared, confused, angry, undignified etc. So it's once again up to you to interprete why he reacts this way: is he angry because she suggested he would actually cheated on her? Is he angry because she called him out on that affair? Is he confused and scared because she thinks he doesn't love her anymore because of his foolish decision to tease her in such a cruel way?

That's up to you.

P.S. I think one of the most interesting studies of the subject and Hades' character that I've read in a fic for that matter was the Songbird chapter of Winters Nigh and Summers O're. You can check it out, but I will warn you that it's probably one of the heaviest chapters of that fic in the emotional sense and it has explicit parts (don't worry, nothing bad happens to Eurydice. Well...apart from dying, I guess), so check out the warnings if you decide to read it.

[quantumvaudeville]

And here's the whole Hadestown cast with their Pokemon!! Hermes | Orpheus and Eurydice | Hades and Persephone