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Penelope and Odysseus singing "Wedding Song" from Hadestown to each other, except instead of birds they sing that "the trees gonna make the wedding bed"
THOUGHTS ON HADESTOWN COMING SOON BECAUSE OMG I LOVE THIS MASTERPIECE SO MUCH AND I FINALLY SAW IT, SOMEHOW DID NOT CRY AND HAVE MADE IT OUT ALIVE IN ORDER TO TELL THE PEOPLE WHAT I LEARNED
🎵 maybe it will did turn out this time on the road to hell, on the railroad line 🎵
is this too niche? svsss hadestown au starring 79
Feeling a lot of feelings about how Hadestown doesn't present the story as "Orpheus turned around and everything fell apart and there was nothing anyone could do to fix it" and instead presents a story that says "he turned around, he doubted, he failed, but if we keep telling his story maybe one day Orpheus won't" and it's not just about Orpheus as a single character, it's a bout every Orpheus, everyone who runs up against a system they can't change and fails and everyone who sees that failure and gets back up and says "maybe I can change it now" and tries again. That Orpheus failed isn't the takeaway of the story. The takeaway is that one day he might succeed.
hermes in hadestown is the exact opposite of an unreliable narrator. a tortured narrator. a little *too* reliable. incredibly aware of exactly what is happening at any given moment, vaguely spoiling it for you in the beginning, despairing every second of it. but ultimately motivated to continue to tell the story over and over and over with a smiling face for the sake of the audience, and for the sake of the characters themselves, singing it again to keep them alive. knowing how it will end, but singing it again so that the cycle may restart and eurydice may come back to life. enduring the misery of it all, over and over, holding the knowledge of what will come to pass but continuing anyway to see orpheus happy just one more time before it all goes down in flames again.
Kaos being cancelled rlly sucks and I’m sad we don’t see the continuation of the story but lord in heaven how do you make Orpheus Chris Martin when hozier was right there yearning and trying to bury himself, ascending to a higher plane of existence, viewing all his past lives, realising he is in fact the reincarnation of Orpheus and meanwhile Chris Martin is probably out there making a salad without dressing
Ship dynamic: She's everything, and he's just Ken/Worships the ground she walks on gotta be one of my favorites honestly
there's something so endlessly poetic about eva noblezada and reeve carney's relationship.
they met & fell in love while performing the central romantic characters of a retelling of a 2000+ year old tragic myth, in which the central theme of the show is how people have been retelling this story over and over again for all of those 2000+ years, every time hoping that it will 'turn out this time', only to be devestated by the inevitably tragic ending. a retelling that begs people to hope, to believe that this time, orpheus will get to take eurydice with him.
"who are you?" "the man who's gonna marry you."
"lover, tell me, when we're wed..."
on reeve's final show, they recreated the end of the show, allowing orpheus to take his eurydice up the stairs and out of 'hadestown', hand in hand with her - an ending that the mythological orpheus & eurydice never got to see.
and then they got engaged, on a bridge overlooking the theatre where they first performed together, while returning to their characters together for the first time in a year and a half.
they are the orpheus and eurydice who made it out. they are what the show begs us to believe in.
anais mitchell, you prophetess.
I was listening to If It's True from Hadestown earlier, and let me just say
It sounds very relevant to the current times...
Today, i'm thinking about Hadestown and the celebration of a doomed narrative. I'm always a sucker for a doomed narrative, but for Hadestown, it's different because of course it's heartbreaking, its devestating and unfair and they're so close, but also because it's seen as a triumph. Because the very first song it tells you what this story is. Even if you dont know the story of orpheus and eurydice, it tells you the basics going in. It's an old song, it's a love song, and most of all it's a sad song. It's a tragedy. And then the rest of the musical is spent falling in love with the characters. The whole story is spent making you forget that first song. And it works. You're rooting for them, you want them to succeed. They're walking out of hell theyre gonna make it and they can be happy and orpheus turns around. And it feels like a betrayal, because it's so heartbreaking because how did you forget? It's made more so by the Road to Hell reprise, when Hermes retells yoy everything he already said. When he stops singing and tells you what you forgot. It's a tragedy. It feels almost like a beratement, because of course he turns around, that's how it goes. Why would this time be any different? It feels like a cruel reminder of our own stupidity.
And yet...it's not. Hermes says it himself. There's power in knowing how it ends and singing it again anyway. It's a celebration of that stubborness to see them get a happy ending. A celebration of the fact that we're all just little kids demanding the story be told again and to get it right this time Because they deserve their happy ending, they deserve to get out, even if we know it's impossible. It's triumphant because in the face of gods and death and hell itself, we are here demanding it be done again and again because they have to get it right eventually. And its true, because I listen to the soundtrack over and over and each time I get to the end my heart is ripped out of my chest because I thought it was going to end differently this time. And when it doesn't, I listen to it again. It's a blessing from hermes to be defiant in the face of cosmic forces for the simple fact that they were in love and they should get to be in love. A celebration of not the tragedy, but the refusal of it.
this is the edit i was talking about
absolutely obsessed with yellowjackets edits to hadestown songs 🫀
absolutely obsessed with yellowjackets edits to hadestown songs 🫀
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And then I imagined some kind of play or some kind of episode about Cody and Graham acting out Hadestown but with Graham being a version of Orpheus (in this play his name is Atlas) who wants to go down to the underworld to talk about an architectural plan that He has for Hades and thus obtain a job with him and Cody being a version of Eurydice (But his name is Orpheus) who is a musician and dedicates himself to singing to people to cheer them up in difficult times which are the merciless hell.
During the beginning of the first act, we see that Orfeo (Cody) tries to convince Graham (Atlas) that they are both artists who are dreaming something improbable but not impossible.
After Atlas arrives in Hadestown because he had a round trip ticket (which only those selected by Hades could have) the song Chant happens and Atlas realizes that Hades doesn't care about anything as long as continue expanding his empire so he takes his plans with him and leaves, but not before with a type of threat from Hades on a dying songbird, since while all that was happening, Orpheus had the bad luck to cross paths with Artemis, being mistaken for an animal by her or because she prevented him from hunting an animal by accident.
While he is dying (because Artemis shot him two arrows, one in the leg and the other between the ribs) the Fates accompany him, just like Hermes and it seems that the four of them are angry at Atlas for leaving his brother alone.
In the end Orpheus dies and arrives in Hadestown where Hermes, the Fates and Persephone herself tell him what it is like to live there (this happens in Way down Hadestown), at the end of the song Orpheus meets Hades and he recognizes him as the brother from the mortal who dared to call him “Greedy” so he thinks about using that to his advantage (also use Chant II for the way Hades offers Orpheus a deal) the workers tell Orpheus to offer Hades something that He cannot refuse but that it benefits him, but Persephone tells him to be careful with Hades and tells him a little about his story. In the end, Orpheus offers Hades (through a song unrelated to the musical) to be his company in the underworld. while Persephone is not with him and also entertain Persephone when she is there, Hades accepts and the Way down Hadestown reprise happens.
While all this was happening, Atlas finally arrives where they told him they last saw Orpheus and meets Hermes, Wait for me happens there and Atlas reaches the underworld again.
The truth is I'm not sure how it developed but Chant reprise ends up happening but this time it's Hades talking to Atlas and not Orpheus (although it seems like it is).
In the end, Hades and Persephone end up talking about Orpheus and that they should let him go, since despite everything Hades has grown fond of Orpheus seeing him as a young and hopeful version of himself, Hades agrees to let them go but in the same way that I accept that Orpheus and Eurydice left Hadestown, Orpheus is confident that his story will be different from theirs but Atlas is afraid because he has heard this story millions of times and he knows that no matter how hard Orpheus tries to change the ending, he (you and I) know how it ends.
And in fact, everything happens like in the end of the musical, but before the road to hell reprise plays, Atlas sings another song (unrelated to the musical) and after that follows Hermes and then the final song of Persephone where they talk about Orpheus and they hope that I can at least remember them when they get to the underworld too, and the end is the same.
Musicals abt greek myths,,,, ily.,,
the code for making a tragedy that's like crack to me
Sadly no one chose a song for #Intheheights so I had to spin the WHEEL and Blackout Won!
And Wait for Me for Hadestown won due to popular demand and both will come out on March 9th.
Starting today, I will be doing #MUSICALMAYHEM which is a year full of me making animatics for musicals that you all get to pick. There are at least 1 musical for each month the musical list will posted and you all will tell me which song deserves to be turned into an animatic and I will pick the song based on how many people say the same one.
First picture is for February to April and the second is for the whole year. Please go a vote on Instagram.
If you like animatics and musicals please join in with your own list or aniamtics or even just by voting
https://www.instagram.com/stories/its_izzy_2025/3547819744965470468?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MTNjaXQyMmpjejd6bQ==
not normal about orpheus and eurydice and i never have been. like imagine loving someone so much that you can’t bear to live without them. imagine loving someone so much that you walk through hell to save them. and then you find a way, a real way to save them, and you love them so much you ruin it. whether it be turning just too soon in your excitement, or out of worry and care or they trip and it’s just instinct to catch them. no matter the reason you ruin it by looking back and it always comes from love.
God, have any of y'all heard a song and felt tingles because it's so good? It'd like the body's just saying "Yes. Good. AGAIN." And there's just this good feeling about you? And it gets to that part in the song where you just- your body just deflates and relaxes, and you just feel completely at peace? Because I get that frequently.
🎶And we're gonna sing it again and again🎶
(sorry I watched Hadestown last month I had to lmao)
because you have!
and you will!
again and again and again and again and a
hadestown His song echoes through the Underworld. See Carlos Valdes as Orpheus on Broadway.
Long as we stay with each other, then it will always be like this.
Hailey Kilgore (Eurydice) and Carlos Valdes (Orpheus) perform "All I've Ever Known" - Hadestown
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