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meerawrites · 9 months

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Hadestown: we’re gonna sing it again

“Don’t ask where, brother, don’t ask when…” Hermes sings in our ‘prologue’ of sorts, Road to Hell.

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sergeantsporks · 2 days

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I like how I can read a greek myth and I'll be like "Oh, well that was nice" but then someone writes a musical based on the same myth and I can feel it rewriting my cells on a molecular level

#something something there's a reason myths were told in song form something something #epic the musical #hadestown #war stories from the sergeant

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deconstructthesoup · 3 months

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I think there's something beautifully poetic about this new trend of Greek-myth themed musicals.

The Lightning Thief musical, Hadestown, Stray Gods, Epic---all of these stories are being told at least in part through song, echoing the fact that every single myth that we know was originally told through song. We're essentially reprising the tradition thousands of years down the line, and that's honestly beautiful.

#greek mythology #greek myth adaptations #the lightning thief musical #hadestown #stray gods #epic the musical

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jubjubmaz · 3 months

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Hehehehe he’s my fave <3

#hadestown #orpheus #Orpheusfanart #hadestown fanart #wait for me #if it’s true #red roses #musicals #greek mythology #greek myth art #what is trusting your lover /j #hades and his little games #he’s autistic #meow

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swordplease · 2 years

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I love you stories that know they are stories, i love you breaking the fourth wall, i love you omniscient narrators, i love you circular storytelling, i love you “maybe it will turn out this time”, i love you stories that end by starting over

#yes this is about hadestown #hadestown #hadestown broadway #anais mitchell #Rachel chavkin #this is a rachel chavin supremacy blog!!!#broadway #musicals #broadway musicals #Greek myths #greek myth aesthetic #narrative

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mysticmiav · 2 months

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Really digging this Hermes design

Gonna clean it up cuz I also just like the look of the whole thing lol also his fingertips are supposed to be golden tipped and his lower lip too but it'll look clearer once I clean it up I think

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helenaredamancy · 1 year

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starry-eyed-psychopomp · 1 year

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Okay we don’t actually fully have any of them BUT STILL!!!

#Hadestown ushered in a Greek myth musical renaissance and I’m SO HAPPY #y’all aristos comes out NEXT MONTH #epic the musical #aristos musical #unwound beyond the labyrinth #unwound musical #greek mythology #musicals

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elianzis · 10 months

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They danced

And Hades and Persephone They took each other's hands And brother, you know what they did? They danced

and without glowing :))

In fact, I'm incredibly glad that I got to finish this art series.

#art #my art #fan art #digital art #digital drawing #artwork #hadestown #hades #hadestown musical #hadestown persephone #hadestown hades #hadestown broadway #musical #greek myth #greek mythology

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karikiii · 10 months

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It’s a sad song, it’s a sad tale…

#hadestown #broadway #musicals #hadestown fanart #fan art #my artwork #art #digital art #orpheus #eurydice #artist #my art #greek myth retellings #greek myth art #greek myths #musical theatre

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finleyforevermore · 7 days

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Poster A:

Poster B:

Please reblog if you vote, and tell me your choice! A "why" would be appreciated but of course isn't necessary! :D

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attheendoftheline · 1 year

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His arms, her hands.

Both of them are extremely reactionary to touch. Absolutely too touch starved individuals that aren’t great at handling at first. I like how Orpheus allows himself to be immediately hypnotized staring at his hand and so on— while Eurydice tries to fight however she feels. This isn’t the topic but I wanted to point it out.

Eurydice always holds her hands out the same way. She holds them cupped as if she expects you to drop something into her hand, she waits on the other person to act. Despite always holding her own and bouncing from town to town she is very quick to trust. Trust someone will be there to hold her hand or if she is being gifted something, it will be good.

I also absolutely just noticed the way O’s fingers grace her palm first, a brief touch- caution, making sure it’s what she wants. Hades goes slow with coins but it’s more for show, we know he’d likely force them if she took a second longer. I love this way she always holds her hand because it’s both trusting and foreshadowing.

Not only is it a show of trust but it is also the fact she leads. Orpheus only ever touches her, holds her, grabs her when he knows she wants it, she wants him. She holds out her hand first when she opens up, she pulls him into a hug and was full ready to drag him out of hades in act 2. It’s the “touch starved character to super touchy character”. And I can understand it! The girls had a impossibly hard life, half the time I think she’s checking just to make sure he’s really there with her! She also has the running thing of placing her hands to his chest, and the iconic hold absolutely melting into his arms.

It’s the trust. He has his arms extended/open and she runs into them, she accepts. That’s their thing. What reason doesn’t she have to trust him? The man who comes after her for over a millennium from time loop to retelling?

It’s also interesting considering Hadestown was made with giving Eurydice agency in mind, as in the myth she steps on a snake and dies accidentally. She doesn’t get much stay in the story. In this version I like how every action she makes is so clearly her choice? Good or bad. She’s absolutely an active player and it’s great

Am I a bit over analytical? Maybe? Am I a sucker for touchy characters obsessed with each other? Bet.

#hadestown #hadestown broadway #hadestown musical #eurydice hadestown #orpheus hadestown #orpheus and eurydice #meta #Hadestown meta #Greek myth #eva noblezada #reeve carney #character study #body language #scene analysis #forshadowing #I’ll stop making gifs when I dead

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fromedennn · 1 year

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don’t look back

lot and his wife / orpheus and eurydice / inazagi and inazami / haku and chihiro / yama and sivitri

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astasource · 3 months

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HADESTOWN. ( 1 / ? ) roleplay starters of anaïs mitchell's hadestown. feel free to edit according to scenario / pronouns.

ROAD TO HELL.

once upon a time there was a railroad line.

don't ask where, brother, don't ask when.

it was a world of gods and men.

it's an old song.

it's an old tale from way back when.

there were three old women all dressed the same.

ride that train to the end of the line.

see, someone's got to tell the tale.

it's a sad tale.

it's a tragedy.

don't forget that times are hard.

let me introduce you to a few of them.

his mama was a friend of mine.

it's a love song.

he was touched by the gods themselves.

ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS.

she was no stranger to the world.

the weather ain't the way it was before.

ain't no spring or fall at all anymore.

it's either blazing hot or freezing cold any way the wind blows.

there ain't a thing that you can do.

do you hear that sound?

ain't nobody gonna stick around when the dark clouds roll.

anybody got a match?

gimme that.

people turn on you just like the wind.

everybody is a fair weather friend.

in the end, you're better off alone.

ain't no length to which a girl won't go.

sometimes you think just to fill your belly full of food.

you know how those muses are.

this poor boy, he wore his heart out on his sleeve.

you might say he was naïve to the ways of the world.

he had a way with words.

and it ain't because i'm kind.

i took him underneath my wing and that is where he stayed until one day…

COME HOME WITH ME.

you wanna talk to her?

[ name ]? don't come on too strong.

come home with me.

who are you?

is he always like this?

your name is like a melody.

oh, a liar, and a player too!

i've met too many men like you.

he's not like any man you've met.

tell her what you're workin' on.

i'm workin' on a song.

i haven't seen a spring or fall since… i can't recall.

oh, he's crazy...

why would i become his wife?

what else ya got?

WEDDING SONG.

who's gonna buy the wedding bands?

times being what they are - hard and getting harder all the time.

lover, when i sing my song all the rivers'll sing along.

the river's gonna give us the wedding bands.

who's gonna lay the wedding table?

so when you sing your song the one you're working on spring will come again?

why don't you sing it then?

it isn't finished.

you wanna take me home?

how'd you do that?

even so, it can do this?

EPIC I.

where'd you get that melody?

i don’t know. it came to me as if i'd known it all along.

you’ve heard that melody before?

remember the tale i told you once about the gods?

i remember now, but that was long ago.

tell it again though.

without her above, not one flower would grow.

the gods sang his song of love.

that was long ago, before we were on this road.

#roleplay memes #rp sentence starters #lyric memes #lyric starters #rp memes #hadestown #music sentence starters #lyric sentence starters #greek god sentence starters #greek myth sentence starters #percy jackson sentence starters

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jubjubmaz · 3 months

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I’m on a Hadestown high- specifically Orpheus- specifically Reeve Carney’s Orpheus

I need to… throw up about this (/pos) IN CHANT II HADES SAYS “You can strum your lyre, I have strung the world in wire”- MY POINT IS OG ORPHEUS PROBABLY HAD A LYRE AND THEY GAVE HIM A GUITARE IN THE MUSICAL BECAUSE ITS EASIER AND ALSO WHERE ARE YOU GONNA FIND A LYRE??? ANYWAYS I’m SORRY IDK LYRES MAKE ME SO HAPPY 💀 SO HE GETS ONE NOW

I ALSO JUST REMEMBERED THAT IN COME HOME WITH ME HE TELLS EURYDICE “I also play the lyre” I’m DRAWING HIM WITH A LYRE FROM NOW ON.

#hadestown fanart #hadestown #reeve carney #orpheusfanart #orpheus #come home with me #i’m so normal #he’s everything to me #he’s just like me fr #lyre #musicals #hades #greek myth art #greek mythology #orpheus and eurydice

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gods-favorite-autistic · 3 months

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Scrolling tiktok and getting frustrated because I saw someone say “sometimes when I get tired (on the treadmill) I keep walking just to prove Orpheus was a slacker and I could have easily saved Eurydice” just say you don’t understand the point of a tragedy and move on

#the point!!! of the original myth!!! and hadestown!!! is not that I would’ve been so easy to not have happened!!!#but the point that it didn’t have to happen!!! but it was always going to happen either way!!!#in hadestown the song where Orpheus looks back is literally the fucking fates!!!! themselves!!!! putting the doubt in his head #he was always going to look back but it didn’t need to happen that way that’s what makes it a tragedy #orpheus and eurydice #hadestown #she had wait for me reprise as the sound in the background and like did you not watch the musical at all #greek mythology #madurday night live

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