#Jessie Shelton

[glimeres]

Hadestown (2017, Off-Broadway) - Digital Booklet Pics

[holly-mckenzie]

Every little penny in the wishing well. Every little nickel on the drum. On the drum! All them shiny little heads and tails Where do you think they come from?

nytw hadestown appreciation  ��  Way Down Hadestown

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

KILL THE WHALE (LYRICS AND COMMENTARY)

HELLO! Over the past couple of months I have been making it a personal project to transcribe and annotate the lyrics for Daniel Emond's musical adaptation of Moby Dick, called "Kill The Whale".

For those unfamiliar with this album/adaptation, here is the official description of it right from Emond's website:

Kill the Whale is a concept album and live rock opera, built in the characters and waters of Melville's Moby Dick. When Ishmael, a young rocker with an unknown past falls in love with the hiphop harpooner Q, they join Peek-Wow, the Whaleship/Orchestra led by steel-eyed frontwoman Ahab, who sets her crew upon a course to kill the gigantic sperm whale that maimed her, a plan opposed by Ahab's first mate (and secret admirer), the devout and soulful Starbuck. Contending with face-melting squalls and mad mates, the hymnic wonder of whales nursing in the heart of the Ocean, and the poignant Gospel of the castaway cabin kid Pip, Peek-Wow embarks on a rock and roll quest for vengeance. Kill The Whale is memory manifested as a 1970's folk/hiphop/rock opera, that centers two queer romances, lifts voices of color, and re-casts authority roles as women.

The album was released on Spotify in April of this year, with two live performances at Joe's Pub taking place only a few days after it's release.

I have archived and noted the lyrics as they appear in the studio album, the live variation, and Daniel's "official" lyrics as posted to his personal Reddit, and the differences therein. I and my good Melville scholar friend and partner @pocketsizedquasar-2 have also left extensive commentary, notes of context, and criticisms of this album in the document. Please enjoy the fruit of much labor and insanity :)

[thestarlightsapphic]

Learning a 650-word monologue for my college senior year over the summer that’s from my favorite musical and this section always breaks me. There’s a beautiful cathartic song that follows this monologue about her finally learning to let go and find out who she is.

Judith is such a complex character that I’ve loved getting to know through song and now a monologue! I worked on the song “A Better Version” for so long and continue to so. There’s something so beautiful about getting to live in the heads of imperfect characters.

She starts the musical on “you deserve to get to know the person you’re trying your damndest to let go” and ends the show on “I deserve to let you go and build a better version on my own”

[kholb2010]

THEY DONT END UP TOGETHER???????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yourmusicmuse]

Instagram thinks I'm close personal friends with everyone on the Hadestown tour and it's very funny to me lol anyways have some memes

[henrytheduck36q]

36 Questions, Act 1 - 13:20

[eurydices-carnation]

Okay hear me out...36 questions inspired hadestown AU

[soffecoeur]

Hockey Canada players react to the new names part II

[rangersgirl73]

i love everything about this picture

[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

[alexbkrieger13]

The Canadians take on Greedy by Tate McRae

📹: emma maltais

[thestarlightsapphic]

To follow up with my last post, here’s a video from last semester during my vocal recital of me performing the song “A Better Version” from 36 Questions! This is a different snippet than the one I posted a while back! I don’t love posting videos of me singing, but I’m trying to learn to be more comfortable with sharing my voice! Whether or not I’m pleased with the performance, because it’s so important to still be proud of the work and progress you’ve made!

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Road To Hell • Any Way The Wind Blows • Come Home With Me • Wedding Song • Epic I • Livin' It Up On Top • All I've Ever Known (Intro) ("In Spite Of Herself...") • All I've Ever Known • Way Down Hadestown • A Gathering Storm • Epic II • Chant • Hey, Little Songbird • When The Chips Are Down (Intro) ("Songbird vs. Rattlesnake...") • When The Chips Are Down • Gone, I'm Gone • Wait For Me (Intro) ("Hey, The Big Artiste...") • Wait For Me • Why We Build The Wall • Why We Build the Wall (Outro) ("Behind closed doors...") • Our Lady Of The Underground • Way Down Hadestown (Reprise) • Flowers • Come Home With Me (Reprise) • Papers (Intro) ("You're Not From Around Here, Son") • Papers (Instrumental) • Nothing Changes • If It's True • How Long? • Chant (Reprise) • Epic III • Epic III Instrumental (Intro) ("They Danced...") • Promises • Word To The Wise • His Kiss, The Riot • Wait For Me (Reprise) (Intro) ("If You Wanna Walk Out Of Hell...") • Wait For Me (Reprise) • Doubt Comes In • Road To Hell (Reprise) • We Raise Our Cups

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[heystovepipeboys]

After getting shipped back to Pavuvu, Snafu’s mind went silent. His soulmate — whoever she was, wherever she was — projected to him, but it felt indistinct. The thread wouldn’t snap, even when Snafu wished it would. It was like the scratch of a rat in the walls, meaningless and distracting. Something trying to get through.

Sprawling across his shitty rotting bunk in the sticky heat, Snafu felt the mental shiver of his soulmate’s presence getting more insistent. Sympathetic? Worried? Why the fuck did it matter? He didn’t bother trying to reach back.

Snafu didn't expect to find his soulmate like this, on some shitty island in the Pacific.  

Written for the @heavyartillery Holiday Exchange for @lesbians4kurt! Now the reveals are up I can post it here. I had a great time writing this and revisiting these two sad kids! It's been a long time since I wrote as Snafu but it was fun stepping back into his voice.