#listening to the london live cast of hadestown

[aimfor-theheart]

live recorded albums of musicals are SOOO superior i have no idea why they don’t do it for every single one

[s-cordelia-mae]

There’s something to be said about listening to the full Hadestown album on repeat

Something about themes,something about motifs, something about knowing how how it ends and still begin to sing it again like it might turn out this time

[disastergenius]

Observations/my favorite things in Hadestown Live from London:

Act 1:

Melanie La Barrie's interpretation of Hermes really works for me, it's my favorite version so far

Caribbean Hermes! Irish Orpheus!! Northern Eurydice!! love that they got to keep their accents

Orpheus's "Yes..." in Come Home With Me

Orpheus's laugh as Eurydice accuses of him being a liar and player; the playfulness of the interaction is so cute and helps balance their dynamic (you get why she would actually want to give him the time of day), and she returns the laugh at the end

Grace Hodgett-Young and Dónal Finn both have absolutely gorgeous singing and speaking voices

"and the sugar from the maple" line sounds so good

the voice crack "Yes!" (Wedding Song) gets me every time

more giggling from Orpheus and Eurydice

Gloria Onitiri's Persephone is so good! Her characterization is fun and I like her vocal choices

singing "who has finally returned to us / with wine enough to share" (Livin' It Up On Top)

I've loved every single version of All I've Ever Known I've ever heard

knowing that Dónal's favorite line is "But when I saw you all alone against the sky/It's like I've known you all along"

the strings solo is beautiful (All I've Ever Known)

Zachary James is really good as Hades, I like that he's not trying to do a Patrick Page impression

Removing Epic II means we miss the best transition of the show of Epic II into Chant I

Grace Hodgett-Young has such a strong and consistent voice; Eurydice's desperation in Chant really comes through

I have also never heard a bad version of Now That the Chips are Down

Dónal's Orpheus sounds significantly sadder and more angry at himself when he realizes why Eurydice left and as such, he sounds much more desperate to go after her. He also sounds more unsure as he starts walking but the strength in his voice is perfect

not gonna lie, I usually skip Why We Build the Wall. It's fine as a song and well sung, and I understand why it's there narratively and it helps worldbuild Hadestown before we see it through Eurydice's eyes, but it just does nothing for me (Act I functionally ends at Wait For Me)

the chorus getting quiet at the end of Why We Build the Wall is a good choice

Act II:

jumping straight to If It's True on this album is crazy. I'm aware that since it cut songs it's not meant to be fully representative of the show, but it really changes the listening experience if you skip to the middle of Act 2

Dónal's If It's True is devastating. What can I say that hasn't already been said: it's the perfect mix of sad and angry and unifying for the workers. Righteously angry union leader Orpheus is the best

Epic III fantastic as always

Epic III lyric rewrite is fine. I still like the og version (from the off-broadway version) and I get why it keeps changing but I do think the lyrics are not as inventive

Epic III They Danced instrumental/vocal is also beautiful I love it so much

giggles in Promises! Getting flustered as the audience cheered

Promises is the last time we see Orpheus and Eurydice happy together and Grace Hodgett-Young and Dónal Finn play it so well, the emotions are all there

Wait for Me Reprise

Leaving off Doubt Comes In is criminal, I'm so sorry, Dónal's version is great and equally devastating and this is the song I'm the saddest was excluded

Road to Hell Reprise continues to be sad and the emotional whiplash without having Doubt Comes In is wild

Overall:

Fantastic album, I love this cast and glad they got a recording. Mourning the cut songs (also they cut so many Hades and Persephone songs; they have none of the ones they sing together), living in denial that they have them recorded from this performance and will release them someday.

[aaronstveit]

this has jack to do with anything except that top 5 books you've read this year ask but seeing that made me want to ask top 5 musicals. i don't think we've had a chat about mt for a while and wanted to check in on your mt journey!!!

arwen!!! obviously i have, well. i've been on a bit of a musical theatre journey this year, as you can probably tell by my url and my header and just the everything about my blog. let's see what are the five musicals that have lived in my head the most this year...

company 2006 proshot with raúl esparza coming in at number 1 for sure. i've known company for a few years now but i watched his proshot a couple months back and it rewired my entire brain so that's cool.

pippin! so very very dear to me, if i think about it too much i will begin to weep.

les mis. even though i always forget that les mis is a musical i think that i am legally required to mention her because of, well, everything about me. i really need to listen to some more versions of les mis soon, like the original london cast recording <3

sweeney todd... sorry to the haters but i really enjoy aaron's sweeney. very fun for me personally.

catch me if you can! idgaf what anyone else says, that musical was fun. someone else's skin kinda the song of all time 2 me. i am going to GET aaron the tony for that one i swear.

honorable mentions to wicked, which i somehow managed to go my entire life without knowing anything about until this year, and hadestown, which you know is always on my mind <333 oh and we are the tigers, who will live in my heart forever and ever.

can't wait to become even less normal about musical theatre in 2025 hehe <3333

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

END OF THE YEAR LIST

i swear i also did this in 2023 but i cannot find it for the life of me. anyways. i have very little memory so since 2022 i decided to make a list over on twitter of everything i do / watch / read etc during the year. and i wanted to have it over here as well just cause <3

so here's my 2024, you can also see everything in this thread here where you can find pics and such, i hope you enjoy it <3

BOOKS:

11/01. anthology of catullus (bilingual edition in latin and spanish by josé carlos fernández corte & juan antonio gonzález iglesias)

28/01. symposium by plato (spanish edition by juan david garcía bacca)

11/04. my uncle napoleon by iraj pezeshkzad (in spanish)

26/05. anthology of sappho (bilingual edition in ancient greek and spanish by aurora luque) [RE-READ]

03/06. the duke and i by julia quinn (in english)

23/06. the viscount who loved me by julia quinn (in english)

08/07. the invisible weevil, by mary karooro okurut (in english)

28/07. the old man and the sea, by ernest hemingway (in english)

16/08. treasure island, by robert louis stevenson (in english)

20/08. genio de oriente, by joaquín maría córdoba (in spanish)

23/08. around the world in eighty days, by jules verne (in spanish i think?)

30/08. jazz, by toni morrison (in spanish)

14/10. the communist manifesto, by karl marx and friedrich engels (in spanish)

18/11. the spoilers, by rex beach (in english)

TRIPS:

13-14/01. valència (spain)

16/03. bolzano / bolzen (italy)

30/03. innsbruck (austria)

11-14/04. london (uk)

27/04. mantova (italy)

04/05. padova (italy)

01/03-09/05. trento (italy) [idk if it counts as a trip as i was living there but whatever]

25-26/05. lisbon (portugal)

10-11/06. firenze - bologna - venezia (italy)

29-30/08. pisa (italy)

THEATRE PLAYS AND MUSICALS:

19/01. desencantadas, at teatro lara (madrid)

12/04. hadestown, at lyric theatre (london)

VIDEOGAMES:

29/01. pentiment (pc)

08/03. summer house (pc)

21/03. showrunner (pc)

10/05. influent (pc)

31/05. urbo (pc)

11/06. fantasy town regional manager (pc)

02/07. toem (pc)

03/07. planet zoo (pc)

13/07. persona 5 royal (ps4) [REPLAY]

29/07. forward escape the fold (pc)

21/09. inazuma eleven 2: firestorm (nds) [REPLAY]

01/10. sword of convallaria (pc)

31/10. anno 1800 (pc)

23/11. pokemon café remix (switch)

20/12. two point campus (pc)

TOP 5 MOST LISTENED TO SONGS PER MONTH:

JANUARY.

5. la edad que tengo by la paloma

4. the ballad of lucy gray baird by rachel zegler

3. when the party's over by paul thin

2. de charco en charco by samuraï ft. belén aguilera

mía (unplugged) by belén aguilera

FEBRUARY.

5. muchas cosas by natalia lacunza

4. paenamorar by paula cendejas

3. enchanted by taylor swift

2. si quieres by cariño

quedará en nuestra mente by amaia

MARCH.

5. as it was by harry styles

4. la camarera by paul thin

3. i drove all night by cris b ft. álvaro mayo

2. can't catch me now by olivia rodrigo

la_original.mp3 by emilia ft. tini

APRIL.

5. femininominon by chappell roan

4. felixità by svetlana

3. so american by olivia rodrigo

2. good luck, babe! by chappell roan

no m'estima + by mushkaa ft. julieta

MAY.

5. nunca te voy a olvidar by bechamel

4. dónde by paul thin

3. torna a casa by måneskin

2. muchas cosas by natalia lacunza

aquí by izaro ft. duda in the sky

JUNE.

5. l'amour de ma vie by billie eilish

4. hot to go! by chappell roan

3. all too well (10 minutes version) by taylor swift

2. who's afraid of little old me? by taylor swift

24 rosas by aitana

JULY.

5. but dady i love him by taylor swift

4. tu novio es subnormal by kalipotxo ft. nko, krivex

3. girl, so confusing by charli xcx

2. alondra by paul thin

x by paula cendejas

AUGUST.

5. girl, so confusing featuring lorde by charli xcx ft. lorde

4. villano antillano: bzrp music sessions, vol. 51 by bizarrap ft. villano antillano

3. alondra by paul thin

2. please please please by sabrina carpenter

new woman by lisa ft. rosalía

SEPTEMBER.

5. 96,000 from the in the heights original cast recording

4. ya no siento nada by blackpanda

3. in my bed by sabrina carpenter

2. cardigan by taylor swift

punto de partida by rocío jurado

OCTOBER.

5. misil by carolina durante

4. happier by olivia rodrigo

3. la_original.mp3 by emilia ft. tini

2. normal by carolina durante

people watching by conan gray

NOVEMBER.

5. cayetano by carolina durante

4. hamburguesas by carolina durante

3. 24 rosas by aitana

2. nuestro nombre by natalia lacunza

gente corriente by jordana b.

DECEMBER.

5. santos que yo te pinte by amaia

4. me gustabas así by burgas vandal ft. stivijoes, sick vaira

3. tengo un pensamiento by amaia

2. barbie de extrarradio by melendi

mazo raro by valentino

CONCERTS:

03/02. valeria castro in teatro circo price (madrid)

09/02. pipiolas in sala paqui (madrid)

25/05. taylor swift & paramore in estadio da luz (lisbon)

29/05. taylor swift & paramore in estadio santiago bernabéu (madrid)

09/06. olivia rodrigo in unipol arena (bologna)

12/06. bruce springsteen in civitas metropolitano (madrid)

27/06. ot 2023 in wizink center (madrid)

03/11. jacob collier in wizink center (madrid)

MOVIES:

25/02. ballad of songbirds and snakes [REWATCH]

02/06. the eras tour

10/07. inside out 2 [CINEMA]

29/07. bottoms [REWATCH]

21/09. death in the nile (2022)

31/10. olivia rodrigo: guts world tour

24/11. the wizard of oz [REWATCH]

01/12. wicked [CINEMA]

TV SHOWS:

07/03. queen charlotte (2023)

10/03. the bear (2022) - FIRST SEASON

13/03. the bear (2023) - SECOND SEASON

25/03. heartstopper (2022) - FIRST SEASON

29/03. heartstopper (2023) - SECOND SEASON

13/05. paquita salas (2016) - FIRST SEASON [REWATCH]

20/05. paquita salas (2018) - SECOND SEASON [REWATCH]

30/05. paquita salas (2019) - THIRD SEASON [REWATCH]

12/06. abbott elementary (2023) - THIRD SEASON

16/06. bridgerton (2024) - THIRD SEASON

29/09. lucía en la telaraña (2021)

29/12. el ministerio del tiempo (2020) - FOURTH SEASON

[gardenofadonis]

Been geting a lot of Hadestown content on social media. Honestly I did not realise how much Reeve's Orpheus changed from the London National Theatre production (which I saw live) to Broadway (never seen live or on video until days ago, before that only listened to on cast album). I loved Reeve's London Orpheus and was totally unaware that apparently people hated that characterisation. I actually want to argue that his apparent cocky and self-centred attitude explains better how he completely blanked out Eurydice during the storm that led to her going to Hadestown. Broadway Orpheus is so sweet and worshipping I don't really understand how he would go so long without noticing her hardship or caring about her (yes I know hyperfixation is a thing but still). And the character growth from wanting the best for himself (come how with me) to wanting the best for Eurydice even if it means her not going with him (promises) is top tier.

Either way Reeve Carney has ruined all other Orpheus' for me.

[kataradora]

Listened to the hadestown: live from London cast recording and cried at promises of all songs so that’s how I’m doing today hbu

[littlespringsongbird]

I’m big Hadestown fan I’ve seen it 14 times in three counties since 2022 have two tattoos related to the show I’m also from the UK. The west end live album is out but I won’t be rushing listening to it anytime soon I’ve seen the show London a four time over this year with that very cast each time i did not like or enjoy watching it personal it’s not my thing i don’t like that version of show, I much prefer the Broadway show and the different cast’s that have seen over the years I hold the Broadway show very close to my heart i follow the goings on of the Broadway show and company closely don’t bother with the west end at all, next time I’m in mood to listen to Hadestown I’ll be picking original Broadway cast, NYTW live album or Anais Mitchel original concept album over the west end album.

[korogie]

okay okay ngl i'm very basic with my musicals knowledge but i've seen hamilton (obv - both the us recording + i've actually been to see the london cast), hadestown (some shitty recording a while ago), legally blonde, dear evan hansen, cats (not the movie, the play), the book of mormon (just listen to it, i really want to watch it one day!!!), newsies obv, wicked, jesus christ superstar and these in the polish version (we have a theater that adapts musicals into polish it's pretty fun): we will rock you (this one i've seen on wednesday), mamma mia, aida, singing in the rain, les miserables, phantom of the opera and polish productions: metro and pilots :D

i basically love all musicals ngl i just like the medium <3 so any recommendation i will be happy to check out :D

OOO those are all pretty good shows (and yes I did see ur other ask abt tick tick boom, double checking my list that show is actually 12 and newsies is 11!!) Honestly, some recommendations I would give are Fiddler On The Roof (a classic, surprisingly really funny), Come From Away (based on a true story when a plane had to emergency land in a tiny town in Canada during the 9/11 attacks and the community of the tiny town coming together to help them), West Side Story (also a classic, really like it, especially the new movie), Spring Awakening (my sister's #1 show!!! It's about early 1900s germany and discussing the harms of censorship and hiding away from topics like sex, really heavy show tho)!!! Just to name a couple more that I really like! Also if u need or want a bootleg of tbom I have a handful but it has been a while since I downloaded them so I'll see if I still have them <- has seen like 8 different bootlegs of this show and live 3 times

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

tagged by @ragnarokhound <3

name: kai (yes im a trans man named kai, its a good name, okay?)

pronouns: he/they

where do you call home: eh the general answer is west of england, midlands and up. theres a sentimental answer but its a pretty small area so im not gonna potentially dox myself in a tag game dhdjsjs

favourite animal: walrus all the way, baby! although my url is actually unrelated to my love of walruses. theyre just the best animals, theyre big old chunky boys with two big front teeth that can grow to over 3ft in length. when on land, they huddle together in cuddle piles. AND mama walruses can use their flippers to pick up their babies and cuddle them to their chest; tell me thats not the cutest thing youve heard today.

cereal of choice: im not really a cereal person or like a breakfast person at all, but if im having it, golden nuggets or nothin'

visual, auditory or kinesthetic learner: ...all of them? idk, it depends on what im learning. auditory probably less so than the others just because my auditory processing isnt just trash, its trash the binmen wont take.

first pet: my parents had four cats before they had me and my brother so i guess them? they were thomas, alfred, cally and misty. my uncle, who incidentally doesnt believe in seatbelts, named alfred.

favourite scent:

no but seriously i have a very strong scent of smell which is part of why im such a picky eater like im yet to meet a food that smelt bad and tasted good, but i just,,,, dont have a favourite scent?

my brother gave me a lynx body spray of his he didnt want pretty soon after i came out the third time, as trans this time, and its definitely a he got the spirit moment so i guess that.

do you believe in astrology: nah, its not my thing really. all the more to you if its yours as long as you dont try to ascribe my behaviour to me being a taurus, thats the mental illness or the autism or the adhd or the neurological disorder thats pushing my eyes out of my skull very slowly.

how many playlists on spotify/apple music: 28 which is more than i thought i had. right now, theres only like 3 im cycling through named dead reckoning, the old swan, and dutch angle / danish pastry.

sharpies or highlighters: yeah so like, we could never afford sharpies in my house so its highlighters my default. sharpies are like mega expensive in the uk and by mega expensive, i mean unaffordable for a child of a working class single parent.

songs that make you cry: hmm. thats kinda difficult because whether i cry depends almost entirely on my mood. if i had to name some, i guess id go with:

a little fall of rain, turning and empty chairs at empty tables from the london cast recording of les mis (its vital to specify this, okay?); george blagdens secret? recording of drink with me; breathe from in the heights; flowers, doubt comes in, promises, gone im gone, and we raise our cups from hadestown (are you sensing a theme yet?); unruly heart from the prom; here i go again specifically from the rock of ages musical (and NOT the tom cruise movie, i saw this musical live and i cried); i know where ive been by queen latifah, and also from pretty much any hairspray cast recording; if i met myself again, ugly in this ugly world and hes my boy from everybodys talking about jaime and i have sobbed at all three of these songs.

and finally: grandmas song, deep into the ground, he could be a star and once we were kids from billy elliot, and yes i cry at most of act 2, i was raised working class in a working class area that was once revered for its industry and has since been forgotten and left to drown in poverty, how am i meant to not cry at it?

songs that make you happy: hmm again. throw the entirety of the first mamma mia soundtrack onto the list. then welcome to paradise & coming clean by green day (when i was a very depressed teenager, listening to green day always made me feel better, both about the world and about myself); the irony of choking of a lifesaver by all time low because its moms favourite song of theirs and weve gone to see them live five times together; merry christmas maggie thatcher from billy elliot because fuck that bitch; legend of coco chanel from everybodys talking about jaime; sexy from the mean girls musical; do it for your lover by manel navarro; strangers & i dont want to talk about me by stereo jane (the strangers music video is so fucking bisexual yall); king of my heart by sub-radio; ghost ship of cannibal rats by billy talent; carpe diem by joker out; who the hell is edgar by teya and salena; let me entertain you by robbie williams because i sang it in karaoke as a 7 year old who did not know the words and then proceeded to get obsessed with robbie fucking williams for a while; slipping away by materia; and 68 guns by the alarm which is a funny little one because it reminds me of my dad but i still enjoy the song and ive made a conscious choice not to limit my music taste just because some asshole whos not even a good hobby ghost hunter likes it too, you know?

do you write/draw/create: all three! granted i havent done much of the first two in a while, but on my defense, losing 7-8 months worth of your memories kind of fucks you up and its oddly time consuming. also developing fainting attacks and spending a week in hospital while they fail to figure out whats wrong with you other than weirdly low blood pressure does not help. but i do have a drawing planned out to do and while i went a little too much detail on one small detail (i will justify it as soon as i actually finish it), im going to finish it. i also do origami pretty often as well as baking, and i am currently building a wooden replica of the titanic AND LISTEN, i started before the titan submersible stuff happened and i havent touched it yet because it just feels weird to, you know? also, i didnt even want to do the titanic, but like, good luck finding any starter kits that arent a) titanic and b) upwards of a £100. i would love to do a ss malolo or a mts stockholm but that aint happening and while i might be able to find an ss normandy or ss united states, im not gonna be able to afford. its titanic or bust which sucks.

tagging but no pressure: @bottlesandbarricades @vaellusvitutus @rad-roach

[musicals-and-mermaids]

I'd like to thank whoever greenlit the live London cast recording of Hadestown bc Dónal Finn as Orpheus is heavenly and I'm so grateful I can listen to him as much as I want

[roadtohadestown]

6/7/8, 18, 19 :) for the asks

6. Have you seen the show live? Talk about your experience!

I have!!! Most memorable and amazing experience of my life 🥺

Seeing it live was sooooo much different from watching a boot or listening to the albums! This was prior to the whole Broadway album’s release, so I tried avoiding listening to whatever songs were already out. I’d been a part of the Hadestown fandom since January, stuck around near the end of their London run, followed the whole Bway cast until the show’s opening, then saw the show June 18, 2019.

I went in blind not knowing many of the Broadway changes from London. So most of the Bway soundtrack I didn’t know. This was so the experience could be more magical for me, since it’s my favorite musical and first time seeing a Broadway show!

I sat really close to the stage and this was the view I got! (Orchestra L, D11)

I got to see the OBC cast and was really happy. There was so much emotion in the actors’/actresses’ faces and you could really see it!! Everyone entered waving to the audience, and I was overFLOWING with joy. I couldn’t believe I was in the same room as Reeve and Eva and this whole cast of people I only saw through pictures and videos 🥺🥺

Tumblr’s being mean and not letting me properly link it, but my tag #casu’s hadestown experience is where I talked all about it. (I’ll have it in the tags of this post so you can click it from there.)

7. If you’ve seen the show, did you stagedoor? Who did you meet? 

Yes!!! I made art for every cast member and spent a month grinding to finish it. I met Eva, Reeve, Ahmad, John, Timothy, Afra, Kimberly, Kay, and Jewelle! (Then I saw T, but he was in a rush and not stage dooring because he wasn’t in the show that day.)

When we flew to New York, my little orange backpack was LITERALLY filled with nothing but this (I didn’t want the art to get squished and was constantly checking on it).

My more in-depth stage door experience is in this post!!

8. If you haven’t seen the show, do you have plans to?

It’d be an absolute dream to see it again 🥺

Answered 18 on a previous ask!

19. What’s your favorite song to jam to?

Both Chants and Wait For Me’s are my JAM!!!

[azuresparkz]

My Musicals Playlist

OK by now y’all must know, I’m pure theatre trash. 

And I’ve been listening to a lot of musicals for, like, ever. So here are some musicals that I have on my playlist and recommend to EVERYONE, plus some I am still yet to listen to! 

(I may be trash but I’m also a procrastinator, I know not having listened to some of these musicals is sacrilegious but I promise I’m getting there!)

Solos

These are songs from musicals that I don’t have more than one of, I just like one song, or are musical theatre style songs that aren’t from a specific show. 

“A little bit” by Drew Gasperini, Sung by Alex Brightman (from “Crazy Just Like Me”)

“Short People” by Randy Newman 

“The Girl in 14g” by Kristin Chenoweth

“I’ll be here” by Liz Calloway (from “Ordinary Days”)

“Close every door to me” by Andrew Lloyd Webber (from Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat”)

“I’m Here” by Oprah Winfrey (From “The Colour Purple”)

“Let me be your star” by the SMASH cast (from “Bombshell”)

“As different as can be” by StarKid (from “A Very Potter Musical”)

“The Bro Duet” by Alexander Sage Oyen (sung by Drew Gasperini & Brandon Ellis)

“Don’t even know it” by Dan Gillespie Sells (from “Everybody’s talking about Jamie”)

Albums

Dear Evan Hanson

Be More Chill

Hamilton

Wicked (my first show, & why I wanna be in Musical Theatre)

Heathers (Broadway & West End Cast, I got to see it on the west end :) )

Chicago (Film Soundtrack)

The Book of Mormon

Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film Soundtrack)

Les Miserables (Film Soundtrack)

Hairspray (Film Soundtrack)

My Fair Lady

Mary Poppins (Original Film)

The Sound of Music 

Hello Dolly! (one of my all time favourites since childhood)

The Greatest Showman 

Little Shop of Horrors (Film Soundtrack)

Mamma Mia! 

Mamma Mia! Here we go again

A Star is Born

Newsies

Hadestown

Beetlejuice: the musical, the musical, the musical ( & my current favourite)

Something Rotten!

Six 

School of Rock (Saw it live in Auckland! Absolutely stellar)

Bat Out of Hell

Kinky Boots

Shrek the Musical

Legally Blonde

Mean Girls

Matilda

Mary Poppins Returns (Original Film)

Assassins

Into the Woods (Original Film)

Young Frankenstein

Pretty Woman

The Producers (Original Film)

Miss Saigon

Falsettos 

Waitress

Moulin Rouge!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (UK and US albums)

The Spongebob Musical

RENT (Original Film)

Spamalot

Carrie: The Musical

Jekyll and Hyde

21 Chump Street

A Strange Loop

Grease! - I was in ensemble for my old school’s production for Grease!

42nd Street - I got to see it live in london, and its still one of my happiest memories

The Wizard of Oz (original film version) - I was the Lion in my old school’s production of Oz, my first ever main role!

Annie (2014 film version)

Musicals I need to listen to!

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

West Side Story (I know I’m terrible)

Phantom of the Opera

The Lion King

Cats (a classic)

The King and I 

Jersey Boys

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Funny Girl (I’m reading the book!)

Dreamgirls

Billy Elliot 

Avenue Q

Hair

A Band’s Visit

Tootsie

Hedwig & the Angry Itch

Cabaret

Highschool musical (I’ve never seen it oop)

In the Heights

Guys and Dolls

Singing in the Rain

Fiddler on the Roof

Jesus Christ Super Star

Oliver!

Oklahoma!

The Wiz!

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder

Come from Away

Beautiful

Freestyle Love Supreme

Amelie

The Lightning Thief

Big: The Musical - Another movie I love and I’ll be listening to the UK cast recording ASAP

The Prom Musical! 

Spotify Playlist!

(via https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0G9HEPaaNNUVaxt78QJbqn?si=FgPeWRwuSf_MgS_jNrextQ)

If you have a similar taste in musicals as I do and wanna keep up with the musicals I’m listening to, feel free to follow my musicals playlist on spotify! 306 songs and counting!

Hope you enjoyed this blog piece and if you have any musical suggestions for me to add to my list, please feel free to comment them below, or dm me your suggestion and we can fan over about any of the above musicals together! 

Thanks, and until next time!

[betweenironyandsilver]

yoooooo do all the song asks! Or all the ones you feel like doing. I LOVE a song rec

thanks!

your favorite song a dustland fairytale by the killers

the first song you remember loving probably something from disney, i used to sing reflection from mulan all the time

a song that reminds you of summer cruel summer by taylor swift

a song you haven’t heard in years nothing’s coming to mind

a song you can relate to easy to love by the jezebels

a song that reminds you of your favorite book sirens from the jane eyre musical

a song that makes you want to dance tie me down by gryffin & elley duhé

the best song from your favorite album see #1

a song that makes you want to cry casimir pulaski day by sufjan stevens

a song that makes you feel young emily by mika

a song that means a lot to you agnes by glass animals

the last song you listened to scholastic sanctuary from the his dark materials soundtrack

the last song you heard on the radio i don’t really listen to the radio

the last cd/album you bought the newest little shop of horrors cast album lmao

a song to listen to on rainy days earnestly yours by keaton henson

a chill song ink by coldplay

an upbeat song mr right by a rocket to the moon

a song that gets stuck in your head london boy by taylor swift

your favorite song from a movie el tango de roxanne from moulin rouge

your favorite song from a musical oh god this is way too hard…i cannot possibly choose…i’d have to pick a favorite banger and a favorite emotional song etc etc.

a song that reminds you of the moon neptune by sufjan stevens

a song by your favorite artist/band flesh and bone by the killers

a song from the year you were born give me one reason by tracy chapman

the number one song on your birthday apparently it was macarena LOL

your favorite love song tell her this by del amitri

your favorite christmas song im such a sucker for silent night

one song that starts with each letter of your name come on then by lily allen, hannah by freelance whales, rearview by bad suns, i bet on losing dogs by mitski, see my eyes by dwntwn, talk by hozier, i dont mind by defeater, nobody by hozier, american money by børns

two songs with the same/similar titles that you like be still by the fray and be still by the killers

a cover that you like better than the original song yellow by katherine ho

a song with really good lyrics be by hozier

a song with an amazing beat both of the chants from hadestown

a song that you associate with the color yellow ...yellow by coldplay

your favorite song with an action in the title (jump, dance, etc.) jackboot jump by hozier

your favorite acoustic song the diary of jane (acoustic) by breaking benjamin

a song that motivates you work this body by walk the moon

your favorite song you’ve heard live watching wait for me from hadestown live made me straight up ascend

a song that reminds you of your best friend under pressure by queen

your favorite song from childhood no idea, i just really liked a bunch of musicals

a song you always sing along to my singing voice is a travesty so…none

your favorite song in a language different from your native one 光るなら by goose house

[eposettelesbian]

how would you recommend someone get into hadestown? i think i’m gonna get to see it while i’m in nyc this spring and i figure that i should get acquainted with the plot somewhat before then.

omg i am so so so excited for you!!! you could watch the bootleg on youtube which is from the london production with the same cast, but slightly different character/song/lyric decisions! that’s how i first got into it, and i’ve never seen more than that, besides listening to the cast album & reading what people say about the show. but there’s also a live cast recording which is also different from the broadway show if you want to listen to that.

main points: it’s about the intertwining myths of hades/persephone & orpheus/eurydice, with a “modern” spin of being set in the great depression era in a coal miner town/area situation. so if you’re not familiar with those myths, it could help to know more — if you acknowlege that it will spoil it for you a little bit.

but i watched the bootleg on youtube of the national theater(?) version in london with the same cast as my first introduction 💕 hope this helps!!!

[harry-leroy]

8, 9, 10, from the first asks for TEP?

Thank you so much for this, Macy! It’s always a pleasure:) xx 

8- Briefly discuss your outlining process, if you outline. 

So that’s something I have to work on. I currently don’t have an outline, but I’m working on it. There have been so many tweaks and changes to this project (like it’s completely different than how it started - which is great, and I am so glad and so thankful that it’s been able to evolve over the past three months into what it is now, and it might go through even more evolution as I continue to research and get new ideas). I do have a Google Doc that says “Edgar Project Outline” and it’d kind of sectioned off into “Pre-Play”, “Play”, and “Post-Play” (”Play” referring to Shakespeare’s King Lear - of course the “pre” and “post” are entirely up to me). This project started as a sort of retelling of the original play through the point of view of Edgar, and now it’s shifted over to the aftermath of King Lear with Edgar as our driving voice. I’m struggling on where I want to show what happens before the tragedy, but I’ve got some stuff written out for some scene ideas - it’s just a matter of whether they’re going to fit, and where they’re going to fit if they do. Other than that, there isn’t much of an outline yet. I’m hoping that I’m going to get better at that as I continue to work. 

9- What is the aesthetic of your current project? 

I’ve thought a lot about this one recently, and kind of how I want things to look on stage. I’m imagining a rather dark stage, light is blue, pale, sparse. There’s a heavy oak table in the middle of the stage, perhaps a half-covered portrait of Lear hanging in the back. It’s the same table where everything fell apart when Lear split the kingdom. Smoke and mirrors. Emptiness. There’s a horrible loneliness that those three men around the table feel. Newspapers scattered everywhere with apocalyptic headlines in stark bold print, some of which are new, some of which are old - “DEATH OF THE COUNTESS”, “RIOT IN LONDON”, “KINGDOM TO SPLIT”, “ROYAL WEDDING IN PARIS”, “PALACE MADMAN”, “FRANCE DECLARES WAR”, “STARVATION”, “EXECUTION”, “RUIN”. There’s an artificial tension that the three remaining men hold as they discuss repair and resurrection in their stiff military uniforms. We ache for the naked souls underneath: the artist, the guardian, the romantic. A musical score with trumpets and drums to symbolize the harshness of their world, and how on edge everything feels. It’s always been war, and it’s still war inside Edgar’s head. We’re inside a shell that can be broken, but it would change so much. An operatic soprano that echoes with the visions of ghosts - a past muse, the dying artist, Edgar’s lost soul. Tension from in and out. A riotous public in demand of stability. The casting list is made up of characters that can be any ethnicity, with the exception of Lear, Kent, Cornwall, and Gloucester (who are all white), hopefully meant to convey the hope for a more diverse and balanced government. A younger generation of color and life. Except we’re so far. We’re still devoid of women, and horribly aware of it. (There’s a line from Edgar to Albany, on the edge of breaking- “Because we’ve killed them all!” ).   

10- What song sums up your current project the best? 

(Me: being a huge classical music nerd, and having auditions) There’s a gorgeous section of the fifth movement of Mahler 2 with a herald like brass voice dancing with the flute/piccolo and it’s exactly the kind of balance I want to strike with the musical voices of TEP) - If you click on the underlined part you can have a listen - the time mark is 19:25 where it starts. 

Also Hadestown like recently came into my life and there’s a gorgeous line that sums up not only Edgar but the entirety of this project so well: Spoken by Orpheus in “Livin’ it Up on Top”: 

“To the world we dream about, and - the one we live in now” 

Neither world is perfect, but there’s hope. And it’s all we’ve got. 

Also: The first movement of Gnossiennes by Erik Satie reminds me of the bleak portion of all of this. Especially that climbing arpeggio in the main theme. 

Thank you for this, Macy! Always a joy to talk about this project:) 

Tagging @princess-of-france​​ because of course:) xx