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Cast of Hadestown on Broadway

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HADESTOWN - BROADWAY - JANUARY, 2025 (2)

Hadestown | Broadway | 2025, January (2) | MP4 (10.09 GB, 2160p) | The Riddle’s master Cast: Carlos Valdes (Orpheus), Hailey Kilgore (Eurydice), Allison Russell (Persephone), Tom Hewitt (Hades), Lillias White (Hermes), Jessie Shelton (Fate), Kay Trinidad (Fate), Brit West (Fate), Emily Afton (Worker), Malcolm Armwood (Worker), Timothy H. Lee (Worker), Alex Puette (Worker), Grace Yoo (Worker)

Notes: Excellent 4k capture of Carlos’ and Hailey’s debuts and Tom’s and Kay’s returns!  One railing that is occasionally in frame but almost never obstructs action, and very minor instances of blind shooting due to usher activity (shoutout to the accidental Alex Puette fancam during part of Any Way the Wind Blows).  Carlos and Hailey give absolutely beautiful performances.

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[oscarisaacasimov]

Hadestown, March 14 2025, Manhattan

What a perfect moment to see this show for the first time. I know the mythology and had listened through the soundtrack a few times, but what a difference to see it live.

It's a show about Greek mythology, seasonal affective disorder, art curing despair, and falling back in love with your long term partner.

The whole band on the stage, that funky trombone player going for a walk. One of the Fates had an accordion, Orpheus has his lute-guitar, even Hades blowing the train whistle and holding his own snake rattle. The line between musicians and singers was blurred and I loved that.

The ancient myth + 1930s aesthetic of costumes and big band music and Great Depression vibes + the 21st century themes of climate change, gated communities, "show me your papers," late stage capitalism. There is literal magic in the show, the gods are gods, but also Hades is your uncle who spends too much time at the office and Persephone is your alcoholic aunt.

The jazzy, lower vocal ranges in this show! This is not a Wicked style belting musical, I loved the lower range of at least one of the Fates. The duet between the bass Hades and the alto Persephone was gorgeous and haunting, I wish this was less of a rarity. Orpheus was a high tenor, and I think he may have hit higher notes than Eurydice's mezzosoprano.

The lighting! Bright for summer, hellish for underground, spooky for Orpheus's descent and return, the miners helmets, the swinging lanterns! When the backdrop parted to reveal The Wall. I kind of expected Hades would have a dramatic entrance, even a visual nod to a train? But instead he was in the background at the opening, playing dominos with Persephone. What Hades got was a dramatic EXIT. When the middle of the stage descended, H&P went down and all this smoke came up, I think I screamed.

Perhaps I could have noticed that the center of the stage was an elevator. Perhaps I could have spent the whole play bracing for the tragic ending. But I was swept up into it, really living in the moment. Orpheus turned a bit before I expected, so still, I gasped in shock.

The difference between the hard-working long-suffering human chorus of 6 or so, and the Three Divine Fates who are detached and in it for the drama, was harder to distinguish on the soundtrack, but worked brilliantly on stage.

It is not for the few to tell the many what is true

What an Orpheus! You understand in the show why the world-weary Eurydice falls for his poetic soul, because he has the magic of the gods. His mother was the Muse Calliope, and he sang a flower into existence in the middle of winter - I'd be wowed & wooed too. Hermes describes him as "touched; that is, touched by the gods." He definitely had some neurodivergent vibes in the show (this reminded me of the Percy Jackson lore that all demigods have ADHD).

This Orpheus is not just a romantic promising to care for and provide for Eurydice, but he wants to save all humanity. He understands that the seasons have grown hostile because the marriage of Hades & Persephone has grown hostile; when he writes his song, all humans will enjoy safety and prosperity again.

In the old Greek story, some of the damned like Sisyphus and Tantalus briefly forget their torments as Orpheus passes by with his music. In Hadestown, he hopes to save more than just Eurydice. Orpheus' song inspires all the damned laborers to remember their own and their brother's humanity, to join together against Hades, in a modern worker's rights / Marxist version. Act 1 can be seen as the tragedy of Eurydice, and Act 2 can be seen as the tragedy of Orpheus, while the story overall is the triumph of Persephone.

Three bits of Act 1 set up some ironic foreshadowing for Act 2: -Orpheus sees how lack of trust has broken Hades & Persephone's relationship, but fails to avoid that same lack of trust from breaking his own. -Orpheus fails to keep his eye on Eurydice while finishing his song, and then he fails to keep his gaze away from her. - The actor playing Orpheus showed great trust in the actors behind him by not turning during the "swinging lanterns" part of his descent, yet the character will fail to do the same.

That said, Orpheus was not perfect. Eurydice was drawn to Hades' wealth and the security of the "gilded cage" he promised. Persephone was drawn to Orpheus' emotional range and keen insight to matters of the heart. Both of the men needed to move toward the middle and balance themselves out a bit.

It's a sad song, we're gonna sing it anyway!

Why do we retell the tragedy of Orpheus? With every performance of Hadestown, and with every decade that has kept his myth alive? Something more than masochism, we love Orpheus as a hero because he dared to do the impossible and he got damn close. He walks the fine line between triumph and defeat, in the human world where our existence can only ever end in death. Even as we are brought to the edge of despair by the final forever loss of Eurydice, we are invited into hope by the final song - Persephone returns, on time, for the first spring the world has seen in awhile. Orpheus lost the girl, but he saved the world. He failed at the impossible, to bring someone back from the dead. He achieved the impossible, to soften the heart of the King of Hell. He inspired everyone who watched him, both the shades of the underworld on stage and the audience.

We're all mortal and we can't change that, but what is the point of this life if we don't at least try? Try to help those around us, love who we can, share some art to soften the burdens we all bear?

But I'll walk beside you, love, Any way the wind blows

Hozier's album of descent & rebirth, Unreal Unearth, got me through some personal suffering and made me want to live again.

Anais Mitchell's Hadestown got me through a dark winter of political & social cruelty & chaos and made me want to fight and sing until my last breath.

The day before we saw this show, the original cast members for Orpheus & Eurydice got engaged. A love between two humans in our real world happened because of this old myth, and it brought me to tears.

March 16 was the perfect date for the story of Persephone in the MidAtlantic. It was winter the day we travelled to New York, and it was spring the day we travelled home. The first buds were out along the NJ Turnpike, and it brought me to tears.

We saw the show to celebrate our 10th anniversary, and the fresh puppy love of Orpheus & Eurydice seems well in the past, those actors seem so young. We're not as damaged and cruel to each other or to the world as Hades & Persephone, but I still think the most romantic moment in the entire show was when Hades said, "We'll try in the fall. It's time for spring." O & E didn't really get a chance to know each other well, while H & P must know each other very well by now. They have a deep history and some old affection to build on, when they decide to turn toward each other again.

Everything is Astrology

My Capricorn husband's favorite musical is Hamilton, written by fellow Capricon Lin Manuel Miranda. Anais Mitchell who wrote Hadestown is, like me, an Aries. Both musicals open with the annoucement that this is going to end in a tragedy (for those viewers who don't already know how the stories of Hamilton and Orpheus end). But from there, the themes spool out quite differently.

In Hamilton, the whole show is haunted by the inevitable finale end. "Why do you write like you're running out of time?" "I've imagined death so much it feels more like a memory." Hamilton is a hero, or at least a compelling protagonist, because he works hard, self-promotes, writes extraordinary things, debates well. There is a whole song about how Hamilton wrote more Federalist papers than anyone else. This story is set in the past, steeped in historical details for nerds, honors the supposed stalwart institution of American democracy. When Hamilton dies, what matters is his legacy - his ideas still underpin our Constitution and banking, his many writings were preserved by his loyal wife Eliza.

In Hadestown, everything is a cycle. Orpheus is a hero, or at least a compelling protagonist because he has a fresh vision and heart full of hope. "He sees the world as it could be." The old cold Hades taunts him, "Sing a song for me, make me laugh, make me weep, make the king feel young again!" and Orpheus does just that. The stale dead romance becomes sweet and playful and full of life once again (you have to see it, listening to Epic iii does not quite show you how Hades reacts). Persephone leaves for winter and returns for spring. At the end of the show, the actors are setting up to perform it all again. Orpheus does not have a single lifespan, he is a legend, and every time we tell his story, he lives and dies and lives again. In 2000 years, we will have forgotten Alexander Hamilton, but the story of Orpheus will still be told.

Towards the end of Hadestown, we freeze at that horrible momement - Eurydice is gone, the earth has opened into a deep dark pit and swallowed her, Orpheus is bent over in a final futile effort to save her but it is too late. It is dark. It is silent. Hermes begins to gently sing about how sad it is. And you think for a minute, is that fucking it? Is that the end? But it's not, because what happens next is Persephone returns and it's spring again. The suffering is real and yet the darkness cannot last forever. What will you do with your time above ground?

[hadsephone]

no one’s shocked that I’m at the Walter Kerr rn. Merle’s Persephone has such a wild dynamic with Tom’s Hades! I’m edging y’all until the end of the show tho before I elaborate

[pooroldjudas]

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR: 2012 BROADWAY REVIVAL

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seeing hadestown rn and solea is phenomenal everyone go see her because she puts such an intriguing spin on eurydice and I love her, also jewelle and tom are getting so much love tonight and i Will sob when this ends

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[pdouwes]

epic iii · singing la, la, la, la, la, la, la. » 19/?

{ tom hewitt & amber gray }

[dorothy16]

carlos valdes in hadestown rehearsals 🌹

[littlespringsongbird]

Broadway cast of Hadestown

Top to bottom

Tom Hewitt as Hades

Hailey Kilgore as Eurydice

Daniel Breaker as Hermes

Carlos Valdes as Orpheus

Merle dandridge as Persephone

[theriddletrades]

HADESTOWN - BROADWAY - FEBRUARY, 2025

Hadestown | Broadway | 2025, February | MP4 (10.71 GB, 2160p) | The Riddle’s master Cast: Carlos Valdes (Orpheus), Hailey Kilgore (Eurydice), Allison Russell (Persephone), Tom Hewitt (Hades), Lillias White (Hermes), Grace Yoo (u/s Fate), Kay Trinidad (Fate), Brit West (Fate), Emily Afton (Worker), Malcolm Armwood (Worker), Timothy H. Lee (Worker), Alex Puette (Worker), KC Dela Cruz (s/w Worker)

Notes: Excellent 4k capture of Allison and Lillias’s final performance with the company.  Allison is in frame whenever possible, with a slight focus on her at times - I was a bit of a lesbian mess this performance and it shows.  She truly gave it her everything, and her Persephone will always be so special to me.  Heads sometimes show up on the bottom of the picture but don’t obstruct anything.  General warning for intense strobing lights, timestamp: 1:25:16-1:25:28.  Includes (a deeply emotional) We Raise Our Cups and Lillias’s goodbye speech.

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It's the Fracties, the night when fractions come out to shine!

[fantastickkay]

From J-14, December 1999.