#hadestown off broadway

[theres-rue-for-you]

The double meaning in “everybody dresses in clothes so fine” (fine meaning either beautiful or thin and worn out) and “everybody’s pockets are weighted down” (weighted down either symbolizing wealth and jewels or the physical and mental anguish of living in hadestown) will simply never cease to give me chills

[glimeres]

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

[terrible-musical-theatre-ideas]

In order to compensate for the fact that someone decided Cats needed to not have cats in it, we will replace the human characters in at least one musical with cats. We are hosting a poll to determine which musical will go full Jellicle in order to restore the balance of the universe, lest we unleash the flesh monster which resides in Patti Lupone's basement.

[cerealbishh]

I tell myself it'll be alright but then the day becomes the night and there is not a friendly face in sight! // I'm trying to trust that the song he's working on is gonna harbor me from the wind, the wind, the wind

🎥: @bikinibottomdayz & @callmelasagna

[little-songbird-sings]

The Broadway version of hadestown makes it really feel like eurydice is like. bullying a mentally ill man who got left in the washer

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

Stu would literally rap Hamilton in Billy's ear if he lived long enough to hear the musical. But he's the type of person to sing all the parts, so he's out of breath and gasping for air while annoying the fuck outta Billy, who just wanted to listen to Hadestown or something like that, but now he has to deal with a sweaty Stu who's jumping around and singing and dancing all parts of Hamilton

[roukabi]

Wayyy down crittertown, way down under the grouuuund

design notes under the cut

I can't believe it's taken me this long to finalize some animal-ifications for Hadestown, but hey, they're here now!

Orpheus was pretty simple. I wanted something cute and cuddly, and I figured it'd be interesting to turn him into an animal commonly seen as a trickster. It'd throw Eurydice (and maybe The Audience) off guard, maybe as a little nod to looking beyond the darkness of the world to find the abundance of light within. I like to think that he wraps Eurydice up in his fluffy tail when they sleep together :)

For Eurydice, I decided against a literal songbird in favor of something that would better foil Orpheus (and leave the avian designs to the neutral characters). Where Orpheus is an honest fox, Eurydice decided to be a true raccoon - traveler of the streets, thief of the city, and a true loner. Survival of the fittest is her life philosophy... until she meets Orpheus and sees the world from a different perspective. Deep down, she wants to let herself go, to enjoy life, and to be loved. Isn't that what any stray animal wants?

As previously mentioned, I wanted to keep Hermes and the Fates as birds to separate them from the story they tell. The tall, elegant form of a great blue heron seemed right for such a sage god, even if the real Hermes' bird is the rooster. He gets to literally take Orpheus under his wing, too.

Not all gods have to be imposing, though. Persephone as a squirrel is exciting to me, because there's a lot of comedic potential in a mighty goddess being contained in a foot-long, very lively, wine-loving vessel. That isn't to say she can't be serious, of course. I've learned that most squirrels do not actually hibernate, and instead tough out the winter with stored food and a deep burrow. Squirrels are also known to (accidentally) plant trees. Therefore, I think Persephone would be even more concerned about the seasons going haywire than normal, and would react accordingly.

Hades, meanwhile, is far more stony and mountainous than his wife. Unlike their European cousins, American badgers are so infamously pushy that the word 'badgering' was invented. Hades embodies this to a mild degree, being stubborn but not too ornery. He is, above all, a king. His leucism and reversed coloring helps him stand out as the big boss of the tunnels, and obscures him in the snow. Deep, deep down, maybe he's just a big fuzzball...

The Fates may look like old crows, but they're actually ravens, and they're very insistent on that. Clotho (left) is the youngest and least concerned about mortal woes. She just spins up the string, it's none of her business what happens later. Lachesis (top) is the middle sister with an airtight plan for everything, especially the lifespans of the people. She can be a bit bossy. Atropos (right) plays it straight, and cleanly cuts mortals' strings of life. She's not benevolent, but she's not unkind, either.

As for the workers, they're just miscellaneous critters doing Hades' burrow work. it used to be a snake pit before, y'know, the snakes moved out. Now it's Hades' new empire, just as warm and bright and unstable as the surface. The burrows are large enough to house some scary-looking hounds just waiting for a chance to stretch their legs and hunt...

That's it. Yaaaay! As usual, designs are free to use with credit, should they interest you. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be looking for every excuse possible to draw the hadestown cast as critters.

[dionysism]

i love that the greek underworld is consistently associated with ragtunes or blues music. like idk why we keep doing that but we should continue

[albert-kafka-camus]

Rachel Zegler MUST play Eurydice at some point for my sanity

[satturn]

if i could i would at all times talk about damon daunno's falsetto in hadestown wait for me II (live) (off-broadway)

[natjennie]

I don't care how good your current hadestown is. it should've been the live original cast version instead.

[theres-rue-for-you]

I’m sorry but there is actually crack in damon daunno’s portrayal of orpheus. I’m convinced anaïs mitchell shook a copy of ovid’s metamorphoses too hard and he fell out

[would-they-be-good-at-asmr]

Propaganda:

Look up Hey Little Songbird or Why Do We Build The Wall from Hadestown and tell me he wouldn’t be perfect.

[jisreal64]

Seeing how well that my other unrelated meme on a national holiday was, here is another I made that also spites the works of Vivziepop by taking a jab at her roots in musical theater by calling her creations worse than the biggest broadway bomb of all time:

[cerealbishh]

jorpheus, my heartbreaking beautiful anxious singer and lyre-player

🎥: @bikinibottomdayz

[reflection-s-of-stars]

The inclusion of Hermes as a father figure rather than a narrator in Hadestown is the single best thing Anaïs Mitchell could possibly have done for the framing of her story in this essay I will-