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polldownhadestown · 5 months

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Specifically named workers pre-Broadway? I need to know everything right now-

A workshop version of Way Down Hadestown had these lyrics:

Welcome to the skeleton crew! / Welcome to the chain gang, kid / Lemme introduce you to / The members of the working dead / Old Jack Hammer! Mister Miner / Wandering forever in the catacombs / Working on a hole to China / Diggin’ up them dino bones / Way down . . .

Sweatshop Sally! Missus Miller! / Workin’ in the cellar where the sun don’t shine / Sad-eyed little Cinderella / Sweeping up the ashes of the summertime / Used to be one a the boss’s pets / Now she’s just another stiff / One night in the boss’s bed / And a lifetime on the graveyard shift / Way down . . .

They’re a cool insight at who the workers are and why they are there, but it took away from the way they are monolithicized and the loss of identity so Anaïs changed them. You can find a little more discussion of them in Working on a Song!

#hadestown #Hadestown history #thanks for the ask!#working on a song

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hadestownreconstruction · 23 days

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So I finally got to see Hadestown live when it toured in my town and now I'm back on my Hadestown bullshit, and to find out you are compiling lost songs and everything from the show just has me over the moon!! I've seen several posts where you encourage folks to ask questions and I don't even know where to begin-- I want to know everything!!

Do you have a Google drive or anything where you keep notes and lyrics and stuff as you find it? I have a copy of working on a song but do you also have lyrics that were not included in that? And were there actually different possible endings to the show?

Okay I know this is late and I’m SO sorry about that, but I’ll answer what I can?

- No, I don’t have anywhere I keep my stuff. Since you sent this I made a folder in Google drive with some useful links (thx for that idea btw lol), and if I remember to do so, I’ll keep adding things on! But for now the only organization is the disorganization of my mind, alas.

- There is a little bit of direct content that’s not in WoaS, but that stuff’s hard to find. I’d suggest starting with the highlight reel from 2007 HT, and the 2007 and 2006 photo archives. Also, check out ‘#cerberus hadestown’ on this blog for more info on them.

- There were other endings, sort of. At the end of the day, Orpheus has always turned around. But what bits we have of the 2012 workshop show a little bit post-turn with Hermes and Orpheus (the precursor to Road II, I suspect), and according to Ben t. Matchstick’s Instagram in another version (which I also heavily suspect to be 2012) has Hades’s guards (the Cerberus triad, as opposed to Sara Grace’s Cerberus) deciding to stop protecting him from the rioting Workers. But at the end of the day, Orpheus turns. He must always turn.

I get the feeling of having so many questions, but no clue what to ask. Hopefully this has given you something to stand on, so to speak. You got follow up questions, you know where to ask! Enjoy!

#hadestown #hadestown Vermont #hadestown 2012 #hadestown reconstruction #hadestown history

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cobaltsoulsearcher · 5 months

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Query: Where can I watch hadestown

It seems interesting but I don’t know where it would be available

Okay soo

It’s a Broadway musical, so the only “legal” way to watch it is to buy a ticket to the show in New York, the North American Tour which is currently in Canada , or the South Korean production in Seoul. There’s also a West End/UK production beginning next year.

The music is however quite easy to stream; The original Broadway cast recording is on most streaming services, as are some of the earlier stuff like the NYTW production and the concept album.

That said, many lovely people have bootlegs. If you decide to watch a boot, make sure to note what version/cast it is, as the lyrics and characterizations change significantly from NYTW to London to Edmonton to Broadway, Broadway being the “canon” version. I have seen bootlegs of all four of those as well as of the Spanish language production from Argentina; feel free to DM me if you wanna know how to find them. Unfortunately, there is not to my knowledge any recordings of Vermont or pre-NYTW workshops, though there is a ten minute clip compilation, an Anais solo concert, and the concept album.

That’s probably way more than you wnated to know, excuse me for being a nerd about this show.

TLDR: buy a ticket to see it live or find bootleg videos on YouTube/MEGA/from a bootlegger

#hadestown #Hadestown fandom #bootlegs #thanks for the ask!#Hadestown productions #Hadestown history

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the-overanalyst · 1 year

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i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

#literature #classic literature #greek mythology #shakespeare #dark academia #romeo and juliet #macbeth #tragedy #antigone #history #hadestown #orpheus #the song of achilles #song of achilles #patrochilles #the iliad #classics #living up to my url for once

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dawningfairytale · 1 year

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something i love about musical theatre is that there's no sequels. you go to the performance and that's it. it's brought to life in different ways, sure, it may have references to other properties, but you don't need to watch them. everything can be self-contained. and when We Live In A Society where everything gets a live-action remake, or a sequel, or is a part of a Cinematic Universe, or is a musical remake, the fact that you can just enjoy a musical without having to catch up on a bunch of other content is a relief.

#i know love never dies is an exception but also fuck andrew lloyd webber #rtc #ride the cyclone #i know legoland is a tie-in but it's just that. a tie in #you don't need legoland to understand rtc or vice versa but it can heighten the experience just slightly enough #six #heathers #hamilton #deh #bmc #hadestown #it helps that some of them are based on history and so you can't sequalify it #but i love that for me #musicals #musical theatre #on my sugar queue

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ourstaturestouchtheskies · 11 months

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The Poppies – Lucien Frank // The Thin Red Line – Harold H. Piffard (restored by Adam Cuerden) (detail) // Livin' it Up On Top from Hadestown

for @saircasm 💙

#poppy #poppies #livin it up on top #hadestown #hadestown broadway #anais mitchell #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

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caito-does-stuff · 23 days

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MORE BOOK COVERS :D

#book cover #book design #graphic design #frankenstein #hadestown #the secret history #in the heights #1984 #the song of achilles #art

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sunshineonashelf · 8 months

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can you have a parasocial relationship with a character? asking for a friend

#the secret history #harry potter #six of crows #marauders #good omens #our flag means death #young royals #heartstopper #community nbc #hadestown #kaz brekker #henry winter #remus lupin #etc #etc etc

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dolokhoded · 5 months

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maybe i'm just greek but it's so weird to me when people get so upset over the ACCENTS in shows being transferred from broadway to the west end or to australia changing like ???? literally who fucking cares it's the same music and the same words these are just people's accents people have different accents in real life outside of having to fake them for theatre sorry <3

#🧅#hadestown uk right now. SIX BWAY that was insane why were yall so pissed about that #like truly who cares idk maybe i just cant understand it but its just so stupid to me.#i cannot grasp why yall care so much it makes ZERO difference #and if the pronounciation of certain words in different accents changes the rhythm or the rhyme then they literally just keep it the way it #was theyre not stupid they adapt #WHAT DID IRISH ORPHEUS DO TO YOU ???#like. especially hadestown if youre so pressed about it im gonna come in and say that actually theyre all greek so they should sing in gree #accents. for accuracy. sorry !#''six has to be in british accents because its british history :((('' half of them were not even from england

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stevenmeeksfreeamericaradio · 1 month

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Eurydice when Orpheus turns around to check she’s still there: