#doubt comes in

[asoftepiloguemylove]

in the crooks of your body, i find my religion

Charles Bukowski Raw With Love / unknown / @ruhlare / unknown / Anaïs Mitchell from Hadestown; Doubt Comes In / @violentfemmme / Florence + the Machine I'm Not Calling You a Liar

[singerorpheus]

Hadestown - West End - 26/05/2024 Dónal Finn (Orpheus), Madeline Charlemagne (u/s Eurydice), Allie Daniel (Fate), Bella Brown (Fate), Beth Hinton-Lever (u/s Fate), Lauren Azania (Worker), Tiago Dhondt Bamberger (Worker), Lucinda Buckley (Worker Swing), Waylon Jacobs (Worker), Christopher Short (Worker) Do not share outside of Tumblr.

The instrumental at the start is cut off (tumblr limit, sorry!), but Orpheus was literally right in front of my face having a break down so I have to tell you for posterity. When this starts, he kisses his necklace (I'm once again asking what his damn necklace is), staggering and desperately hitting his chest to the sound of the keys, so grievously hurt. You can hear him shushing the Fates before they sing their first 'Where is she now?' here! The stage is so so dark, it really looks like Orpheus is alone here, until Eurydice starts singing with that big bright light, but he keeps on panicking. Madeline does a magical, heartbreaking thing here singing 'Orpheus' before she goes.

[room-temperature-orange-juice]

Hadestown WIP, doubt comes in

The first time anyone speaks is at frame 340. Pray for me.

[fable-the-queer-bookworm]

"It's you"

"It's me"

"Orpheus..."

"Eurydice..."

[timetojointheclub]

The One Big Thing I love about Hadestown

Is Doubt Comes In, this song is the absolute best to experience live in an audience. You can feel the yearning in the audience, you can feel the audience members at the edge of their seats, thinking, "He's so close he'll make it."

It's the tentative hope that is everyone's downfall when watching this show. They tell you at the start that it's a tragedy, but even still when this song plays, when you watch Hades give his trial, hope sparks in your chest.

When you watch Orpheus start to walk and Eurydice right behind him, there's hope in the audience. You pray that he'll make it, he won't turn around, he'll make it out.

Then you see his doubt, then your heart starts to sink.

And the absolute best part of this in an audience, is the drop in the music, Eurydice's gasp, the stinging violin in the background, you can feel everyone around you still, their mouths dropped open at the suddenness, you could hear a pin drop in the theater.

I even heard a girl in the front row of me say under her breath, "No, no, no way."

The collective shock even when you have listened or seen the play, it still makes my heart drop in some capacity.

I love Hadestown :D

[attheendoftheline]

“Why doesn’t Orpheus just play Marco Polo?”

He fucking does!! I’m talking specifically Hadestown context here. Doubt comes in. Orpheus is constantly doing his “La La la’s” and is waiting for a response. Usually he sings and the world sings back, here he would be waiting for some sort of sign from eurydice but he can’t hear her— no one/nothing responds. He is doing a call and response like Marco Polo but not getting a answer and it’s not like he can turn around to check (both for obvious reasons and likely because she’d be pretty far back)

[ostronat]

orpheus are you listening oh my god he has his airpods in he can't hear us oh my god

[therhythmismyblanket]

You ever think about the fact that ultimately it’s the fact that Orpheus “used to see the way the world could be - but now the way it is is all [he] see[s]” is what ultimatley lead to him turning around?

It was him losing his hope for / vision of the world changing for rhe better that leads to his and Eurydice’s demise. It’s him being unable to see anything but the state of the world as it is now, that despairs him

[arrow-jsy]

Ok this isnt going to be put eloquently at all but

Doubt Comes In

Hurts

Through the entire show everytime Orpheus sings his lil la la la la la la there is is glorious echo, this support from the orchestra and the ensemble *but now* Orpheus is alone. Obviously we as the audience knows thats hes not - not really - but we also know the story. We know he turns around we know he thinks hes alone but we feel it with this lack of support weve always been told met with. And then flip the script and now Eurydice has the backing becuase she has the support of the other workers but its so satisfying becuase the whole show Eurydice has been singing solo against the fates but just ahshshshahhshsh its so heartbreaking and

[guysitsmilo]

Omg hiiii besties I’m back (I’m not)

A little something for the hadestown enjoyers

[asssneksual]

I think the most gut-wrenching line in hadestown is "I used to see the way the world could be, but now the way it is is all I see" (sung by oprheus in doubt comes in). like this used to be a lovely, imaginative young boy who saw the best in everything, and now that has been taken from him and I think its just so sad

[parasite-core]

I just had another Hadestown thought, because I am so normal about this musical.

The fact that Orpheus turns around shows that he had the potential to become just like Hades. In Epic II Orpheus sings about how Hades feared that Persephone would never come back to the underworld when she was on the surface and that’s what fueled his paranoia and jealousy. Then in Doubt Comes In, part of the reason Orpheus turns around is because he doesn’t trust Eurydice enough to believe she will follow him back out into the cold and dark instead of staying in Hadestown where she’s guaranteed to be provided for.

[1seaweedbrain1]

my musical playlist just went from Doubt Comes In (Hadestown) to That Beautiful Sound (Beetlejuice)

so it went *very sadly* orpheus... *also very sad* eurydice.. *excited* do you hear that sound? *a scream* that beautiful sound!!

[hadestownreconstruction]

the original Doubt Comes In will always hold a wonderful place in my heart. the percussion, the eerie silence, the drums that continue even after eurydice's second death... divine

[itsvin]

listening to Hadestown for the first time in a while and i forgot how wonderful and soul aching it is

i feel like it’s fitting that it started raining almost as soon as i started listening to it

it’s so soulful yet joyful at the same time

[attheendoftheline]

The uplifting version-

I’ve been trying not to share to much from working on a song, it’s a fantastic read and I want to let you guys discover stuff for yourself. What I can’t not share is this— it a early version of doubt comes in (i don’t think it was ever used) and it’s much more positive and for that it hurts more.

I like how he starts very positive, his faith is strong in Eurydice and the world. But as he presses on the fates force this from him, acting sort of as those intrusive doubtful thoughts they do though other versions.

What also hurts is that it’s very reminiscent of the form of the myth where Orpheus makes it but she doesn’t. He makes it fully into the sunshine and is so overwhelmed by that excitement and relief that he turns to embrace her not knowing she’s yet to step over the threshold. OW.