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Still upset that they cut the second verse of Seize the Day in London Newsies

When it transfers (🤞) pls kindly put it back

#newsies #newsies uk #London newsies #troubadour newsies

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only OGs remember Mike Faist in his “put my foot through a chair” era 🥰

#I NEED TO KNOW IF HE STILL HAS IT #mike faist #challengers #newsies

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weird unprompted opinion but i think out of all the storytelling mediums.....theatre best portrays loneliness

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okay listen i absolutely adore every single version of hadestown i've had the fortune to listen to, but this was the first time i actually got to SEE it and the ANGER in dónal finn's orpheus after he gets beat up really sold me on why his doubts creep in later - he is fully facing the world outside of hermes' wings for the first time and it is not kind to him and he feels completely alone and hopeless, of course that is going to creep back into him as doubt, as fear, as terror later when he believes himself to be alone again, of course he does get his hope beaten out of him - not all of it, but just enough that doubt comes in

#ohhhhh #hadestown west end #Hadestown uk

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I’ve not seen any slime tutorials of other Hadestown productions but BOY OH BOY does Dónal sob on the floor by the pit in the stage for SO LONG

All the while Hermes took their bloomin time with all of the “it’s a sad song” repeats

And he was just SOBBIN AND SOBBIN leaning over the pit

And then even when he came on at the end his face was all pink from crying I’m

#Dónal Finn #you legend #Hadestown #Hadestown uk #hadestown west end

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Oh???? 👀

Also my dudes, if you ever in London and you’re huge Hadestown nerds, you can visit National Theatre Archives and watch the proshot of London Hadestown from 2018 (for those who might not know, it’s similar to Broadway/tour/west end in terms of costume design but has different characterisation for orphedice in particular + different lyrics) with most of the OBC playing the roles.

The archives have 2 proshots, one from different angles and one from a wide angle, I watched a multiple angle one and it’s really great. Plus they have some other Hadestown stuff, you can see all of it in the archive catalogue. You can book the day to see it in the archive website and even watch it in group for free.

Also the people who work in the archives are super lovely and we accidentally run into one lady who works there and also is a huge Hadestown fan :3 Overall 10/10 would recommend!

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Saw it yesterday and agree with all of this and more. Insane.

i’ve been obsessed with hadestown for years now and finally got to see it yesterday on the west end, so here is a non-exhaustive, mostly in order list of things i loved:

- hermes ‘aiiiight’ ing the audience at the start

- the fates looking offended when hermes says they’re all dressed the same

- orpheus getting distracted and forgetting to greet the audience as he’s introduced

- irish orpheus and midlands eurydice healed something in me

- the fates all the time always, actually

- persephone and eurydice’s little moment of connection as persephone tells her to take what she can and make the most of it

- the trombonist dancing with the chorus during his solo

- orpheus and the cast looking out to the audience in a beat of silence as they toast the world we live in now

- everybody collectively gagging at the wine

- eurydice pushing orpheus right across the stage as she sings how she wants to hold him tight

- orpheus swooping in and popping up like a meerkat between hades and eurydice when she draws his attention

- hades putting on his dark glasses in order to immediately take them off at eurydice in hey little songbird

- eurydice holding the coins/ticket to hell out to hermes twice during chips are down and hermes only taking them on the third time

- hermes and persephone flirting at the start of act 2

- persephone not sharing her hip flask and hermes acting all offended until she gives them some

- every reference to hermes’ gender is gone

- hermes

- melanie la barrie

- hades’ slutty little strut on the revolve

- the absolute raw grief and anger and desperation in if it’s true, dónal absolutely killed it

- hades dad dancing

- hades burying his face in persephone’s shoulder after they reconcile

- orpheus’ adorable delighted ‘yes!!’ after eurydice tells him he’s done it

- the chorus’s cute af reaction when orpheus ’proposes’ eurydice to walk home with him

- orpheus’ fidgety, reaching hands as he walks and doubts (devastating)

- the centre of the revolve dropping away the MOMENT orpheus turns, almost before he’s actually set eyes on her. she’s already gone

- orpheus’ voice break on eurydice’s name as she vanishes (DEVASTATING)

- orpheus just sobbing by the gaping hole where eurydice’s gone as the theatre is in total silence (SHOOT ME ALREADY)

- the stage being set in the last minutes to match how it was when the show began. we’re really going to sing it again, aren’t we. there’s nothing else to be done

also do NOT get me started on the set and lighting design bc holy shit you guys it was PHENOMENAL. i so want to see it again to look for all the little details i inevitably missed

#Hadestown #Hadestown uk #hadestown west end

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are we gonna talk abt melanie la barrie's INSANE butch swag as hermes or am i the only one swooning about her flirting with persephone

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GOLDEN RETRIEVER ENERGY

dónal finn’s orpheus has my entire heart actually. listen to this fuckin dork

#I loved him so much

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Oh my WORD is West End Hadestown good!!! The cast is SO TALENTED 🤯

#Hadestown #Hadestown uk #Hadestown west end

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Anyone else feeling SO old??? The way that so many of these are really recent/new shows 😭 MEAN GIRLS?? BEETLEJUICE?? SIX???

*ok after voting and reading the tags I feel a bit better hahaha

Say in the tags!

#not judging at all #just crazy to me #I’m clearly very old #I think my first would have been hairspray or wicked? or wizard of oz

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i’m going to have to take my newsie cap off santa fe style about this

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lol just walked past mukeni nel

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HOW IS HIS VOICE SO SMOOTH

I literally have only ever seen him in Once in Concert last year, but genuinely now I’d probably go and see anything he’s in just to hear that boy sing

the way Jamie Muscato sings 'Veronica Sawyer' in freeze your brain is haunting me but in a good way

#HI BELLE #ITS BOBBY!!! but in a different font lol #this is my dead musicals sideblog #also wooooo shared interests! #jamie muscato

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SAME CAST BAYBEEEEE !!!!!

Ok but Jack Wolfe stans aside, I’m THRILLED that the cast will be the same because they were all BEYOND AMAZING

#next to normal #next to normal west end #next to normal uk #caissie levy #trevor dion Nicholas #jack ofrecio #jamie parker #jack Wolfe #eleanor worthington cox

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scene from the lion the witch and the wardrobe inspired by the west end cast

#I WISH THEYD RECORDED THE SOUNDTRACK

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I’m playing “spot JP Ferreri in Hairspray” and I forgot how young he is

#newsies #jp ferreri