#nytw hadestown

[b-plot-butch]

we lost persephone’s chant ii verse in the divorce

[kafeino]

WIP ✨

Missed them.

[aperture-of-bullshit]

Did you know. That even the hardest of hearts unhardened suddenly when he saw her there. Were you even aware.

[sxnyarostova]

sometimes i sit down and think about how nytw hadestown managed to capture the essence and message of the show so well and smile to myself

[holly-mckenzie]

Hi, hope this finds you well! I saw your nytw hadestown edits, and was wondering if you had seen a proshot or bootleg of that production? If so, I was wondering if you have a copy, or know where to find it? Thank you so much for your time!!

Bestie, if I had the Pro-Shot of NYTW you best believe that I would be soo much more annoying.

The gifs I made, I made from all of the Promos and Trailers that NYTW released about the show back in the day, there is a link somewhere for a boot.

[theswampghost]

ok here’s the thing. because PERSONALLY i don’t love the broadway version of hadestown, but i would be fine with it if the current culture in theatre allowed for multiple versions of the same text to exist. because i want nothing more than to play orpheus, but only in the nytw version of hadestown. especially with the themes of hadestown itself, it would be wonderful if multiple different iterations of the text were allowed to circulate! but instead the only version that will probably ever be available to produce will be the current broadway revision :(((((((((

[icantrecallaskysoclear]

NYTW!Orpheus how I miss you ����🤍

let the world we dream about be the one we live in now.

[shiningnorthernlights]

about Persephone's cut verse in Chant II.

[b-plot-butch]

one of my great joys is telling people who are only familiar with broadway hadestown about the nytw version and watching their hearts break in real time as i quote persephone’s chant ii verse, orpheus and eurydice’s dialogue in come home with me ii, and the “you’re early” “i missed you” ending. i’ve done this to three or four people and it feeds my soul

[aperture-of-bullshit]

Anyone remember when three old ladies all dressed the same was a joke. Hello. Can anyone hear me.

[sxnyarostova]

i had nytw hadestown thoughts

right so we've all seen that bluey video of bingo singing poor little bug on the wall in that hammock... that is eurydice if she was not constantly being shoved around by the wind and forced to scrabble from point a all the way to point z by the fates. i will not elaborate.

eurydice is a peppermint tea person. orpheus is a hot chocolate with two shots of espresso person.

orpheus tells people that he drinks but cannot handle a single shot of liquor. eurydice is hardly ever coerced into drinking but she can polish off a lot of alcohol. sometimes she takes orpheus' shots for him when she doesn't want to carry a half-delirious guitar man back to their apartment.

their apartment has 12 succulents. in a modern day au, that number would be squared. eurydice is very much a succulent girl she's a plant lady. a cactus caregiver. an aloe adopter. she doesn't really trust him with them initially but she lets him water them every once in a while. #trustisbuilt guys

orpheus in a modern context would listen to johnny flynn.

[singerorpheus]

Hadestown - West End - 26/05/2024

Dónal Finn (Orpheus), Madeline Charlemagne (u/s Eurydice), Melanie La Barrie (Hermes), Gloria Onitiri (Persephone), Zachary James (Hades), 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.

In honour of Dónal leaving and Madeline becoming main Eurydice <3

[thesweetnessofspring]

"People will help you in the arena. They'll be tripping over each other to sponsor you." "No more than you," I say. Peeta rolls his eyes at Haymitch. "She has no idea. The effect she can have."

HungerTown 4/?

[icantrecallaskysoclear]

the second gif tho 😟💔

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[joyfulsongbird]

if i see one more GODDAMN tik tok comment from some 14 year old freshman in high school saying that reeve carney is the worst hadestown orpheus i am going to FUCKING CRASH OUT.

[roukabi]

Well, I said back here that I wanted to do a NYTW critter-ification. So here we are!

As usual, design notes/trivia/comments under the cut:

"Rook, none of these are animals I'd ever consider related to the Hadestown cast."

Yeah, I know. But it looks cool, right?

Orpheus strikes me as someone who was wild as a boy. And by 'wild', I mean biting and growling and hunting squirrels with his bare 10-year-old hands. He got less feral when approached with food and stable housing. With all that in mind, it made sense to give him something that matched that energy. Also, community-minded? Famous vocals? Effortlessly beautiful? The connections are there! And I stole from this drawing I made a long while back. Yeah I bet y'all forgot about that but I didn't! I still really like the idea of werewolf Orph!

...come to think of it though, we give nytw orph too much credit. I think it's easy to pin him as the brave, heroic union leader because of his confidence, but he's just a poet. He's lovey-dovey, he's gentle. He's got a very healthy ego, but it doesn't overpower his soft core. There's a reason his 'If It's True' is so sad - he's not a fighter, he's an artist, and more importantly, a lover. He has no real incentive to finish his song (for better or worse, narratively-speaking). He's an artist who talks big and loves his wife.

That said, it seems a little weird to give him such a fierce animal. But as is the case for bway orpheus's fox choice, i am a fan of designs that betray the real character underneath. His big snarky wolf persona (fursona?) falls apart when he looks at Eurydice for more than 3 seconds.

Wow, that could've been its own post tbh. Moving on, the star-like speckles in his fur were added because of his name - "the darkness of night". Canis Major is somewhere on his fur.

Now, could a catgirl and dogboy really fall in love?

With regards to Eurydice, you can't improve upon perfection, which is why my design looks very similar to @riveracheron's Eurydice design. You can see most of ismene's design here (I can't find the original ref image, sorry!) for reference. I wasn't sure about making Eurydice's nose yellow, but she needed yellow somewhere in her palette, and a black or pink nose looked kind of wrong. She's a loner kitty built for the snow. Not that she enjoys it. Also I wanted to add a cute white/yellow bow around her neck but forgot :( pretend it's there

Anyway, probably the most interesting animal decision was Hermes. I mentioned in my Broadway critter designs that I wanted to keep the neutral characters as birds. That meant I had to find a bird to match Chris Sullivan's Hermes, and, idk, I liked the barn owl the most. Barn owls are screechy and painfully unexpressive, but if Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga'Hoole has taught me anything, it's that anything can be expressive if you break just enough rules. So there.

Barn owls are associated with doom and death in old English tales, and they're known to live in abandoned houses. It would sound like the barn owl should be given to Hades, but I like to think that since Hermes is the one telling the story, he's in charge of the cycles of death and renewal that take place in the story. He's a harbinger whether he likes it or not.

For the Fates, I already had cat designs in mind, but I almost made them birds to fit my neutral rule. Then I kinda waffled on it and said "well, the Fates are kind of mean, and you know what would be fun? Wild animals vs domestic animals". Cats it is! And they are anything but dressed the same: we got stripes, spots, and swirls. They torment their fellow kitty Eurydice for being 'wild', they're invasive, and they get in fights with the local wolf. The relationships write themselves.

I didn't draw Hades and Persephone since they'd already been covered in the Broadway lineup, and there wasn't much of a difference between bway and nytw to justify new drawings. They're still critters though, trust me.

And that's it! I guess had a lot more to say about these than last time. As always, the designs are free to use with credit.