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not normal about orpheus and eurydice. you loved someone so much it opened the stones of the underworld. so much that death had to listen. so much that everything stopped for your love. so much that you turned around. so much that even when you did wrong. she forgave you.

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Maybe I'm late noticing but Come Home With Me lyrics have a double meaning.

When Orpheus says "I also play the lyre" he doesn't just mean the instrument. He also means he plays the Liar.

He promises not to turn around and ultimately... he does.

#hadestown uk #hadestown #hadestown west end #hadestown broadway #orphydice #orpheus and eurydice #orpheus #eurydice #anaïs mitchell #Come home with me #Every time i listen I find more and more tidbits and i adore it

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I’ve not seen any slime tutorials of other Hadestown productions but BOY OH BOY does Dónal sob on the floor by the pit in the stage for SO LONG

All the while Hermes took their bloomin time with all of the “it’s a sad song” repeats

And he was just SOBBIN AND SOBBIN leaning over the pit

And then even when he came on at the end his face was all pink from crying I’m

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i am. so sorry if i have ever used the phrase “i have an au where—” and led you to believe that there is an actual fic out there for you to read rather than, at best, a post where i explain the concept, and at worst it is simply something that lives in my brain

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Everybody tryin' to get a ticket to go but Those who go they don't come back They goin' way down Hadestown Way down under the ground

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hadestown really does convince you that maybe it’ll turn out different this time. maybe eurydice wont go. maybe hades will let them go. maybe, just maybe, orpheus wont turn around early.

and then she does go. and hades makes them take a test. and doubt creeps in.

#spent all of doubt comes in thinking he'll make it this time #he won't turn around this time #only for him to do so #i gasped #the girl three seats down from me screamed

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not to make another hadestown post but “she’s out of sight, and he’s out of his mind” may just be the best line in the best musical theatre villain song of all time. It just—hdkekwoei£|+{+~€}++~

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It breaks my heart knowing that Act One!Orpheus wouldn't turn around. He's hopeful. He's optimistic. He believes in all the good in the world even when the world is a cruel and cold place

But Act Two! Orpheus has seen how the world is. He's seen how cruel and cold that it is. He forgets that there can be hope. And that is one of the most breaking things about the musical, in my opinion. Watching this man lose not just the woman that he loves, but all the hope that he had. Watching as he learns that the world isn't this happy and wonderful and beautiful place that he dreams about.

#hadestown musical #hadestown #hadestown west end #orpheus #orpheus and eurydice #eurydice #wathcing donal finns if its true is devasting #his voice just breaks #and i just wanted to hug him and protect him and tell him that it was all okay

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why is he so handsome???

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Whoever cast Dónal Finn as Orpheus, may your pillow be cold on both sides

Pat yourself on the back because that was incredible

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Dónal Finn was such a perfect poor boy working on a song it's been days and I still can't stop thinking about it. Like. His lalalas/If It's True seriously rewired my brain.

(shoutout to @yatorihell and Pip who accompanied me on the road to hell and Irish Orpheus <3<3<3)

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PSA

This is now a Dónal Finn stan account.

#dónal finn #hadestown uk #hadestown west end #hadestown musical #MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY WAS FUCKING ALTERED

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Hadestown West End Cast for Big Night of Musicals

(Via The Stage Tea on Tiktok)

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After five years of adoring Hadestown, I had the privilege of seeing the West End Version of the show and I WOULD DIE FOR DÓNAL FINN'S ORPHEUS.

That man had me physically shaking with anxiety during Doubt Comes In. His Wait for Me bridge at the end of Act 1...I have NEVER been rendered unable to speak ever before. I was unable to breathe. No other media has impacted me this way before.

Also Dónal is such a sweetheart and got 110% more Irish when he asked at stage door were we were from and said Ireland.

#dónal finn #hadestown west end #hadestown uk #hadestown #This is a Dónal Finn stan account now #orpheus #hadestown musical

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Orpheus (Dónal Finn) in Hadestown West End trailer

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Hadestown notes 9/3/24

EURYDICE PLACING THE COINS ON HER EYES DURING CHIPS ARE DOWN. SHE PUT THEM RIGHT ON HER EYES AND I WAS LIKE I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS-

Hades placing his head in his hands when Persephone leaves for the first time

Orpheus crawling in front of Eurydice and like popping up in front of her in way down when she said kinda makes you wonder how it feels it was actually hilarious

One of the fates laughing when Eurydice mentions shelter

Donals Orpheus is KILLING MEEEE HES SO PRETTY aND HIS VOICE GOD-

ITS LIKE THE GODS MADE HIM FOR THIS ROLE

Hermes looking very disappointed in hades during why we build the wall

Hades’s voice is so powerful, His build the wall was BOOMING

Wait for me. I cried. I’ve never cried at a show like this before there’s just no words

I forgot how long Eurydice and Orpheus make out during All I’ve ever known like they were going AT it 😭

Also the way they held each other in way down was sooo cute he was just always near her in some way or touching her

Persephone is the definition of l cute but will kill you (also I’m obsessed with her voice)

Lauren’s Persephone was definitely drunk as hell and Zack’s Hades was on coke for sure it was perfect

The fates HARMONIESSSS, it’s amazing how they have individuality but also just fit so well together

During Promises, Hades kept his head on persephone’s shoulder the entire time as they swayed, her hand rubbing his back in little circles

Orpheus going “YES” and throwing his hands up excitedly in promises

Hermes kissing persephone’s hand during the start of act two before she starts singing

Orpheus and Eurydice literally brimming with excitement when Hermes says they can be let go and their smiles slowly fading

Dónal’s pure anxiety in Doubt comes in, he was fidgeting so much, tripping, shaking, he was so scared.

Pretty much no gendered terms for Hermes (no ‘Mister Hermes’ etc, just Hermes)

Persephone RIPPING her hands away and groaning when hades says I don’t know

Orpheus came out from the bottom right box when he first appeared in act two, just crawled up on the stage like a true theatre kid

Lyric changes in Epic III! I don’t remember them but I got a recording

Orpheus absolutely sOBBING AFTER LOSING EURYDICE HE WAS ABOUT TO JUMP IN THAT PIT HE WAS SHAKING AND SOBBING

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i’ve been obsessed with hadestown for years now and finally got to see it yesterday on the west end, so here is a non-exhaustive, mostly in order list of things i loved:

- hermes ‘aiiiight’ ing the audience at the start

- the fates looking offended when hermes says they’re all dressed the same

- orpheus getting distracted and forgetting to greet the audience as he’s introduced

- irish orpheus and midlands eurydice healed something in me

- the fates all the time always, actually

- persephone and eurydice’s little moment of connection as persephone tells her to take what she can and make the most of it

- the trombonist dancing with the chorus during his solo

- orpheus and the cast looking out to the audience in a beat of silence as they toast the world we live in now

- everybody collectively gagging at the wine

- eurydice pushing orpheus right across the stage as she sings how she wants to hold him tight

- orpheus swooping in and popping up like a meerkat between hades and eurydice when she draws his attention

- hades putting on his dark glasses in order to immediately take them off at eurydice in hey little songbird

- eurydice holding the coins/ticket to hell out to hermes twice during chips are down and hermes only taking them on the third time

- hermes and persephone flirting at the start of act 2

- persephone not sharing her hip flask and hermes acting all offended until she gives them some

- every reference to hermes’ gender is gone

- hermes

- melanie la barrie

- hades’ slutty little strut on the revolve

- the absolute raw grief and anger and desperation in if it’s true, dónal absolutely killed it

- hades dad dancing

- hades burying his face in persephone’s shoulder after they reconcile

- orpheus’ adorable delighted ‘yes!!’ after eurydice tells him he’s done it

- the chorus’s cute af reaction when orpheus ’proposes’ eurydice to walk home with him

- orpheus’ fidgety, reaching hands as he walks and doubts (devastating)

- the centre of the revolve dropping away the MOMENT orpheus turns, almost before he’s actually set eyes on her. she’s already gone

- orpheus’ voice break on eurydice’s name as she vanishes (DEVASTATING)

- orpheus just sobbing by the gaping hole where eurydice’s gone as the theatre is in total silence (SHOOT ME ALREADY)

- the stage being set in the last minutes to match how it was when the show began. we’re really going to sing it again, aren’t we. there’s nothing else to be done

also do NOT get me started on the set and lighting design bc holy shit you guys it was PHENOMENAL. i so want to see it again to look for all the little details i inevitably missed