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@theglueofourgloop

mainly starcanwrecked, but also other musicals and youtube stuff • she/her • main: @theguywholikedmusicals

"Workin' Boys" is quite vocal about Grace and Ted mirroring each other somewhat (both believing the show to be about prostitution, Ted being dead and Grace being a murderer by the end) and while many have already pointed out that they're both "doomed by the narrative" (Ted always dies, Grace always ends up the villain) I don't think we've talked about the fact that the way they're doomed are exact opposites of each other.

Ted always dies because he makes a (sometimes) selfish decision. He runs away in TGWDLM, he tries to take back Jenny in "Time Bastard", he gets up to leave in "Workin' Boys".

Grace always lives because she is forced to act selflessly by giving up her innocence. She has to let Boy Jerry and Girl Jeri get murdered to save Steph and Pete, she has to give up her chastity to save the world from Max, she has to shoot Hidgens to protect anyone else in the theatre.

Ted is a bastard who barely cares about what his actions are like in the minds of others. He always dies because of his bad decisions.

Grace is utterly devoted to a higher power and so desperately wants to be "good". It's never her choice to become evil, it's up to fate.

The way the poster for Wicked had Elphaba and Glinda being pulled apart but reaching for each other and the poster for For Good has them with a literal schism between them...😭😭😭

have seen multiple people ask for a hadestown movie adaption post wicked and we truly have such different world views because i would never want that like to me some musicals are for stage only and hadestown is one of them

like its not like its theatre just because that was the medium it happened to be in. hadestown started out as a very experimental piece or theatre and evolved to what it is now ans the theatre and stage is so fundamental. we’re gonna sing it again and again hits so hard because they DO sing it again and again. to the world we dream about - the stage we’re watching - and the one we live in now - the audience sitting in their seats. orpheus voice breaking apart the set. hermes being able to be on stage for a majority of the show to watch the action unfold. the medium of the theatre forms so much of what is hadestown and no movie adaption would be able to capture that.

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