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An 😭 Orpheus 😭 who 😭 didn’t 😭 turn 😭 around 😭 is 😭 an 😭 Orpheus 😭 who 😭 never 😭 walked 😭 down 😭 in 😭 the 😭 first 😭 place 😭
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"im a boy" "im a girl" okay. i was alone so long i didnt even know i was lonely.
man it's weird getting back into my hadestown era bc i got super into it at the end of 2019 right before the pandemic so posting about it is weirdly associated with the like lockdown quarantine era of covid for me. listening to it doesn't do that bc i listen to it frequently but i don't talk about it as much so this is wild
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"saw that wheel up in the sky / heard the big bell tollin' / a lot of souls have gotta die / to keep the rust belt rollin'" goes so fucking hard
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Anonymous asked:
what were the sexual abuse themes in hadestown?
there's a lot to be said about the general presentation of romantic love as binding and shackling and possessive, but the most explicit parts are in the "why we build the wall" outro when hades brings eurydice into his office alone:
and when eurydice talks about hades in "flowers":
hadestown uses a lot of metaphor and coding to bring greek myth into a more contemporary world: the underworld is figured as a mining town, the road to hell is a train, the river styx is a fortress-like wall, etc., and here death and exploitative/coercive contracts are figured as exploitative/coercive sex.
to give it as fair a shake as possible, you can't just say "hades raped eurydice" in the same way you can't just say "eurydice didn't die, she got on a train" because those are both mundane approximate analogues for mythic events, but come oooon guys. "I trembled when he laid me out / 'you won't feel a thing,' he said 'when you go down'" we both know what that is very clearly meant to sound like, they don't call it la petite mort for no reason. "omg the flower imagery is just about funeral flowers stop reading so much into it" so I guess the millennia of using flowers to symbolize women's sexuality in art across the damn globe are completely irrelevant. sorry my bad.
this is just one more thing that is lost with the removal of persephone's verse in chant ii. the lyrics here are clearly meant to reference this and emphasize the difference from behavior motivated by love. they tried to dumb down the show for broadway and removed the bended knee lyrics but they lost so much that made everything else clearer and it haunts me
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If you ain't six feet underground, you're livin' it up on top!
Amber Gray as Persephone performs "Livin' It Up On Top" from Hadestown in the OBC's first performance in the West End!
sorry but i just think doing wicked in two parts simply does not work and fundamentally changes the story. it is so so important to follow defying gravity with thank goodness. it's crucial to the heart of the story. cutting the story off right after glinda chooses to part from elphaba and not immediately showing her regretting that choice changes the audience perception of glinda and their relationship entirely. if you've seen the musical you know how true and deep their relationship was because you've seen act two, you've seen the effects of separating during defying gravity. but if you don't know the story you're going to get a skewed perception of their relationship and of glenda's emotions and honestly elphaba's too because they didn't add in time to show how close they really were. idk i just think separating the two halves just changes the story irrevocably and i'm worried about the audience response when they see the second part or worse if they change the story in the second part
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well that’s the thing though isn’t it? even when you do know how it ends you still think it might turn out this time. I for one know I spent my first time watching the show thinking about how it could be written so that he doesn’t turn around, hoping and wishing and justifying and making excuses. and when he turned around I gasped. I knew it was going to happen but I gasped anyways. because that’s the nature of the story and that’s what makes it so powerful
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Happy Hadestown West End cast recording release day!!!
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I think it’s very important that we all remember just how hilariously disco the Original French Concept orchestration is. I just imagine Enjolras singing this and groovily swaying his head and sexily smirking at the camera. And disco lights, obviously.
I love the concept album so much you always know Enjolras is somewhere nearby when the disco starts. Every. Single. Time.
Reblogging on Request: DISCO ENJOLRAS.
My fave thing about disco Enjolras: guessing they did it that way because, like, so I’ve gathered from meta that the Brick posits him as the priest of the glorious revolutionary tomorrow? And at the time the concept album came about, disco was probably the most futuristic music the composers could imagine. Like his sheer force of personality forces the score into anachronism.
Which kind of suggests that if the concept album had been written today, his every appearance would be intro’d with dubstep:
“LAMARQUE IS DEAD”
WOM WOM W-W-WOMMMMMMMM
The best part is you can do it in any era. In the later 1980’s, it’s like WHY IS THE SCORE SUDDENLY ALL NEW WAVE DANCE POP, OH WAIT PROBABLY ENJOLRAS IS ABOUT TO SING ABOUT THE FUTURE.
In the 1910’s, Enjolras walks on and SURPRISE RAGTIME PIANO SOLO.
Just imagine Aaron Tveit strutting on stage while swanky disco/slight jazzy music plays in the background.
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excuse moi
now you’ve heard of Disco Deaky in the Queen fandom, but get ready in the Les Mis fandom because we have
Disco Enjolras
we-the-gays
Disco Enjolras lives on
As your resident concept album obsessed fan, I have been scrolling for a couple of hours because I needed to reblog this.