#hadestown obc

[sapphicmoonlightlilith]

as a fandom we joke a lot about persephone having wine aunt energy but i think what a lot of you guys fail to realize is that she IS orpheus's aunt.

like no matter what origin you use for orpheus, the muse calliope is his mom. the muses are also persephone's half-sisters!

so i just love when ppl are like "omg persephone has such wine aunt energy" and forget that everyone in greek mythology is so related that the whole fucking musical is just orpheus getting fucking WHOMPED by several members of his extended family.

#hadestown #hadestown tag #hadestown obc #hadestown broadway #hadestown (2010) #hadestown (2017) #hadestown (2019) #hadestown fandom #persephone hadestown #persephone #orpheus hadestown

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

not to keep harping on this but i went back and relistened to nytw hadestown wait for me (reprise)

and i forgot how mad i was that they took out the concept of trying from obc hadestown

"i let them try"

"a love song for anyone who tries"

idk i think again it's about not getting too wrapped up in presenting a war as a war, and instead focusing on a small aspect of how war affects people to communicate war (mentioned in my last musing post about the differences)

the message between "this story is for anyone who tries" feels a lot more powerful to me as far as activism goes re: climate change than obc hadestown's version of "If It's True" because it's layered on way too thick in obc

like pls go listen to obc "If It's True" or read the lyrics. you can't tell me you don't feel like you're being pummeled with a hammer with the words "THE MESSAGE" written on it

#hadestown nytw #hadestown obc #chirp.txt #chirp.meta #hadestown

[katacthonia]

your ih deh cee. eu ri di kay

#eurydice #hadestown #eva noblezada #hadestown broadway #hadestown obc #hadestown eurydice #ht #hadestown musical #ht eurydice #eurydice hadestown

[lasagoofs]

Hadestown lineup because I was lucky enough to go see it in ny a couple weeks back and I've been listening to the songs on loop ever since

bonus sketches:

#immediately fell in love with the portrayal of the characters especially the gods #also sorry to the obc fans out there if its not the original hermes but this was the version i saw and she was fantastic #anyway i'll go back to thinking about hades and persephone's dance now and forever thank you #hadestown #fanart #hadestown orpheus #hadestown eurydice #hadestown hermes #hadestown hades #hadestown persephone #character design

[alyona11]

Tbh rewatching the OBC Hadestown cast bootleg I’d say that no one quite hit that awesome Hades/Persephone dynamic in the show as Amber Gray and Patrick Page. They are so 👌

And with them the show works in its fullest.

#I could write a big post about how their characterisations of these characters work remarkably well for the narrative #hadestown #also now you can’t @ me for not seeing it live #that’s not to say I other characterisations are bad or anything! I watched boots and we show and they were great #but I also got to see London proshot with OBC and once again appreciate the og take on the character in good quality #so like I do think other casts work as well but it seems to me that where Orphedice work 100% with literally any pair of actors you see #hadesphone gives from 85 to 100% of overall narrative experience #maybe I’ll explain what I mean later if you’re interested

[braisedhoney]

i think the running tour cast right now is pretty neat actually ❤️

(first set of... a few? maybe??)

#hadestown #hadestown fanart #hades hadestown #persephone hadestown #i’m gonna do one for orpheus and eurydice and hermes too! but the couples get posted together (on tumblr lol) #everyone gets posted individually on instagram bc formatting hides them on multiple photo posts orz #my chibi style doesn’t really capture like. individual features. but i tried my best! #lana gordon #matthew patrick quinn #my dumbass might tag the actors on insta like it won't kill me if they see it lmao #god i need to draw like. MORE tour casts #i also want to do the obc at some point ofc but #oh god that's a workload #these look really simple but they take ages orz #UPDATE: THEY SAW IT oh god that was a jumpscare lmao orz

[flickerintwilights]

on the road to hell

#hadestown #art #my art #tag ramble as promised: #firstly #i’ve been thinking about redoing this as digital art #(like - mostly the same but cleaner and with some of the details fixed) and probably will if i have time #because i like this composition a lot #but! for now i am oddly happy with how this turned out despite being traditional art/watercolor (no undo button. sobs.) #and it Is a noteworthy day for hadestown with lola tung and lillias white departing #(this is Not meant to celebrate them specifically - i used the obc as reference not them - i just think it’s a nice day symbolically) #so i thought i’d put this out. whatever. yknow. #oh a second thing i will say is that this was a great excuse to check out the slime tutorials on youtube #i spent like 9 or something hours on this :/ so. plenty of time to have things on in the background while i was working. we love slime #thirdly! two things i feel like are worth mentioning rq for Symbolism: #wait for me reprise (intro) originally having wedding procession imagery (from anaïs mitchell in working on a song) #is what first made me desperately want to put the flower/petals on the edges (it still fucking haunts me) #though it was a solid composition choice in general i think #and i mean. clearly the carnation should be prominent. it’s the carnation. from hadestown. #i don’t think the wedding procession reference comes across the way it turned out but that was the first thought #NEXT ouroboros. the snake devouring its own tail (i legitimately forgot that this was why i first drew the rattlesnake that way but #fundamentally i really did just want its tail and head to point to each other lmao)

[rainsofcamelot]

if broadway!hadestown doesn't release a proshot, i hope west end!hadestown does!!!!!!

#the west end cast is so good #reminds me of the obc #hadestown

[showsandshowtunes]

it's impossible to choose a favourite song from hadestown, by my goodness gracious way down hadestown (reprise) never disappoints

#and you're punchin' in punchin' in punchin' in and you can't punch OUT #a lot of spirits gotta BREAK to MAKE the underworld go round #hadestown #hadestown broadway #also grieving the fact that reeve ''last obc member standing'' carney is leaving hadestown

[thebirdandhersong]

it's that time of year lads

#MY BELOVED MYBELVOED DLFKJDSLKFJLK #the first time i listened to hadestown obc i was SO obsessed it listened to it front to back like four times in a row #and then discovered the london one and then the original anais nin concept album #y'all it is the TIME of YEAR #it's always the time of year but you know. anyways. #slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in year 21 #this is especially pertinent because i am working on fleshing out the inklings story (in sporadic bursts) #and petra and galen have VERY strong orpheus/eurydice vibes #also the music is just so good it gives me chills #songbird again #hadestown

[the-nerdiest-nerd-in-the-galaxy]

God I hope this works.

So I've seen the musical Hadestown, in person, three times now and on the third visit I decided I wanted to be able to hear a recording that wasn't the original cast so I made two voice memos. One for act one and one for act two, the quality isn't the best but that's to be expected from a live performance.

As long as you have this link you can listen to both acts whenever, do keep in mind that it is a live recording so there's lots of cheering and miscellaneous background noise every so often.

#hadestown #the myth the musical #not the obc #please enjoy my hyper fixation as much as i do #hadestown the musical #hadestown tour

[sapphicmoonlightlilith]

attention, hadestown fans!

i am on a mission to compile all the different versions of the show's songs! i plan to record them all in a shared google doc which features links to each version, as well as the lyric changes!

right now i am specifically focused on Chant (reprise) / Chant II, so if anyone has full lyrics for any version outside of those on the albums, please DM ME ASAP!! if you could also include a link to the source of the lyrics, like what bootleg they're from, i would appreciate that SO highly!! i'm trying to catalogue those from youtube right now, but if you have a version from one of those bootlegs, feel free to send it anyway!

if you don't have any sort of info for me, that is fine, but PLEASE reblog to spread this around. i am VERY autistic and VERY hyperfixated on this and really would love to get some real info about this.

#signal boost #hadestown #hadestown (2019) #hadestown obc #hadestown broadway #hadestown fandom #andré de shields #amber gray #patrick page #reeve carney #anaïs mitchell #eva noblezada #jewelle blackman #hadestown (2010) #hadestown (2017) #signal b00st #signal boooooost #hadestown tag

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

i think, sadly, the more i think and compare obc hadestown and nytw hadestown the more i see wrong with obc hadestown and why i wasn’t completely sold on the changes they made (and yes, i did say that i liked aspects about it, but those have honestly changed as well)

yknow that post talking about how the story of orpheus and eurydice is about grief, and the changes they made in obc really takes away from that

like yes, yes i get that them saying each other’s names parallels the scene when orpheus first gets to hadestown and eurydice seeing him brings back the memories that she’s slowly losing while working in hadestown. and honestly that’s galaxy brain. it just doesn’t fit. lol.

“you’re early” // “I missed you” really digs into that concept of not being able to help but look back upon the ones you love in your grief. more than them just saying each other’s names. it also parallels really nicely with hades and persephone’s relationship.

and yknow that writing advice post that occasionally floats around about how if you want to speak on big topics, you have to focus in on the little things, on the microcosms? don’t write about war if you want to comment about war, write about a child’s discarded and abandoned plush, instead, and the audience will fill in the rest.

i feel like nytw hadestown was a bit like that. because it’s more about the story of orpheus and eurydice. like obviously there are little easter eggs referencing the greater story mitchell wanted to tell--namely the wall and everything that references the wall, and capitalism, and climate change--but ultimately it’s still a story about grief

“if it’s true” is still just a lover singing a mournful song about his lost love.

but obc it’s more about the greater message, and it really ruins itself for it.

#i had more to say but my train of thought derailed there #i think you get it #chirp.txt #chirp.meta #hadestown nytw #hadestown obc

[trobeds]

watching the hadestown bootleg tonight

#on all ive ever known rn #hadestown #god this is fucking gorgeous #🫀 #the one on yt #obc

[anxiouspotatorants]

When will somebody have pity on my heart and just out of the blue send me a copy of a video recording of nytw Hadestown

#the official audio recording caught me back in 2018 and I’ve never been the same #no offense to obc or future editions but something about how small the nytw version feels makes it so much stronger to me #look if I could get and pay for an above board proshot of that version I would without fail #desperate times call for desperate measures #hadestown #hadestown nytw #the potato begs

[cobaltsoulsearcher]

Watching the recording of NYTW Hadestown, two minutes in, and already, I’m like, damn, that staging!

Glad they didn’t keep in the g-slur and it does feel like a strange song to open with but it’s sooo beautiful!

#hadestown #hadestown nytw #dm me if you want to know how to find the boot #there’s also an obc and an edmonton one #all higher quality