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So rounding up the N2N transfer rumors:
Transferring next season, opening this fall
Caissie and Jack are transferring with it
Part of the Roundabout Theatre Company 2026-27 season (and if not RTC, a different subscription house)
Limited run
?? Aaron Tveit Dan ??
?? Stephen Sondheim Theatre, replacing & Juliet ??
Begging on my knees that the Aaron Tveit rumors are just cope from the fangirls. Separating the west end cast is criminal behavior
literally about to start sobbing over jack wolfes interpretation of orpheus being a vessel for the power of his music. someone not cut out for his role. like... the poor boy with a lyre who knows he has to do something with the gift he has. underestimating his own influence until hes inspiring workers through his song. "you have to finish it" "i know" watching him so shocked as the others join in during epic iii. im just insane about it all actually
As someone who has ONLY seen Jack Wolfe’s Orpheus (and only listened to the OBC album) I think the reason my current favorite song is “If It’s True” because Jack just looks so MAD at the way the world is. He LAUGHS at the absurdity of it all.
He laughs, exasperated at the unfairness he sings about. Even his version of Epic II was fueled by the anger at the gods and the harm they create through their interpersonal issues. It’s as if, now that he’s lost his belief in what the world could be, he’s furious at how the world is.
Other’s have mentioned Jack portrays Orpheus as if he’a aware of the cycle, that he’s done this before, and what the outcome will be and I agree (to the extent I have no comparison). As a newbie to Hadestown, he really embodies the disbelief at the injustice of the world, both in the show and in the real world. Like it’s less about the cycle and more about the situation if that makes sense. It’s less of a “oh no I have to suffer again this is bullshit” and more “oh my gods i can’t believe how broken this place is.”
What I’m trying to say in a round about way is it’s cathartic to see him so frustratingly flabbergasted at how evil and awful the world can be, and gods know there’s a lot of real life material that can be drawn upon to feed his performance.
Orpheus + Power
Okay so I have finally seen Jack Wolfe’s Orpheus, and yeah. Wow. New favorite Orpheus unlocked. His voice is nothing short of stunning, and he shows the progression of the character from meek little boy to confident young man so seamlessly.
One thing I want to talk about is how this Orpheus finds his power.
During Wedding Song, when Orpheus produces the flower and Eurydice asks “even so, it can do this?” Orpheus responds with “I know,” but Jack delivers it with this tint of shame? Like the rest of the sentence is going to be “Pretty lame, huh?” But of course, she encourages him to finish the song, and his eyes go wide — like no one’s ever believed he could be any sort of impressive before.
Then during Wait for Me when the set opens up, there’s a brief moment of shock on his face, but then he settles into it. Maybe he can do something incredible. Eurydice believed he could. Maybe he can believe it to.
Then he truly comes into his own power during If It’s True. He’s surprised that the workers can hear him, but he kneels down to match their eye level, as if to say “yes, we’re in this together.”
It all grows and grows, that by the time we get to Epic III, he barely seems intimidated. He looks at Hades like he knows his number. He knows and believes in the power he holds. He still has moments where he flinches or doesn’t stand as strong, but he recovers quickly. Because he remembers what it felt like when Eurydice said “you have to finish it.”
This is the first Orpheus who I believed when he told Hermes he trusted himself. Which of course makes it all the more heartbreaking when all of that confidence is slowly broken down by Doubt Comes In.
If you have the chance to see Jack’s take on this character, I really can’t recommend it enough. His performance is so subtle yet so full of personality and life. He really fucking gets it, y’know? I can’t wait to see where he goes from here.
Other things I love about Jack Wolfe’s Orpheus:
- The way he kisses Eurydice's hair, forehead, and hands every chance he gets
- His little smirk when he finally has the one-up on Hades
- The way he laughs incredulously on “because the ones who tell the lies are the solemnest to swear.”
- HIS BELT!! Orpheus is a part with a lot of head voice which of course Jack does beautifully, but when he puts the anger and brightness and POWER behind his voice you feel it in your chest.
- The way he screams “YES!” with tears in his eyes after Eurydice says “you finished it!” Like he just ran a marathon and he's exhausted but he's so happy because HE DID IT!!
Also real quick: Kurt Elling as Hermes. At first I thought he was going for a sillier approach, but the fact that he’s sobbing right alongside Orpheus at the very end? UGH chef’s kiss. That almost made me cry more than Orpheus. It makes the line “and it’s not because I’m kind” hit SO much harder when you realize this is a Hermes who truly loves Orpheus like a son, but for whatever reason has been keeping those feelings close to the chest. But now he’s melted, and thinking about how he maybe could’ve helped and I just. My god.
shoutout next to normal uk broadway transfer we still mourn you every day
Forever grateful for wolfeus but at what cost
It is so tragic that Jamie Parker is playing The Baker and I won't be there to witness it
HADESTOWN Jack Wolfe as Orpheus Morgan Dudley as Eurydice 📹 @bikinibottomdayz
JACK WOLFE Broadway debut as ORPHEUS in HADESTOWN "If It's True" September 2nd, 2025 📹 @bikinibottomdayz
NEVER KILL YOURSELF YOU'VE OUTLIVED CHARLIE KIRK TIME TO OUTLIVE TRUMP
Starting to think that there's a cosmic force bringing me and Jack Wolfe together cause this man keeps booking things that Teenage Me was obsessed with (Six of Crows, Next to Normal, Hadestown). Which is very exciting for Adult Me, who thinks he's immensely talented and is still a huge fan of the aforementioned things, but the Adult Bank Account trembles in fear! There may never be a more lethal combination than my proximity to NYC and my measly funds. Truly a blessing and a curse.
Lowkey grateful he has two weeks off - that way my feed will stop being inundated with second row Wolfeus bootlegs, and the urge to give ATG my money every day can subside.
if it's true what they say, i'll be on my way - but who are they to say what the truth is, anyway?
Just watched a bootleg of Evita for the first time and...it was kinda bad?? I thought I was a fan of the show, every song I've heard in isolation I've liked, but then actually seeing everything play out in order, and the storytelling within the songs is pretty surface-level and the transitions between them are almost always abrupt. It felt like a montage of Eva's life rather than a character study with any real POV. Is this sacrilege?
That being said, I'd still get a ticket if it transfers to bway cause I want to be in the room when Rachel Zegler blows the roof off it. But at what cost.
Ok so I finally got to watch it and here's a maybe obvious take: Hermes definitely knows. And I think it maybe lends credence to the "Orpheus knows" theory.
I guess we've always been aware because it's how Hermes opens the show with Road To Hell. But Road to Hell frames Hermes as a narrator breaking the third wall for the audience. Like sometimes he's "narrator" Hermes who's recalling the story to us, and sometimes he's "in-story" Hermes who's playing it out as it happened.
But at the end of the show, after Eurydice sinks and Orpheus collapses at the edge of the hole, Kurt Elling's Hermes turns his back to the audience and starts to sing Road to Hell Reprise directly! to! Orpheus!
Don't ask why, brother, don't ask how He could have come so close The song was written long ago And that is how it goes
He's telling Orpheus that there was nothing he could have done, it was always going to play out this way. Because it already had before.
I've only seen clips from OBC and in one clip (I think previews) they staged it with Hermes standing centre downstage to sing the reprise to the audience because he was just narrating again. In later broadway clips, it starts with Hermes on the left of the hole and Orpheus on the right so they can be positioned opposite each other, but Hermes is still angled to the audience when he/she sings and is still framed as a narrator.
This version puts Orpheus closer to stage center behind the hole, so that it makes it clear that Hermes is actually talking to Orpheus and not us, because he has to turn his back mostly to the audience to face Orpheus.
It's a sad song It's a sad tale
It's a tragedy
He speaks the last line like a parent teaching their child a life lesson. Kurt Elling's Hermes isn't an indifferent narrator sitting outside of the story. He's the same Hermes who's been helping and caring for Orpheus this whole time. He has a tissue in his hand and openly wipes his tears during the above lines (he holds it in the hand that's closer to the audience so he's not trying to hide it). (A tiktoker I follow said she's seen several casts in multiple countries and has never seen a Hermes cry).
The whole show he's been a father-figure to Orpheus, squeezing his shoulders in encouragement whenever Orpheus gets nervous. And the whole show, he's known that this tragedy was going to play out and he just has to let it happen. (I think the parental aspect is true of all of the productions, though some Hermes may be warmer than others -- I will mention that during Epic III, Kurt's Hermes looks like a nervous parent hovering to the side of their kid's recital and it's very endearing).
And then Hermes does eventually turn around to address the audience:
'Cause here’s the thing To know how it ends And still begin to sing it again As if it might turn out this time
And then he turns back to face Orpheus one more time and gestures to him:
I learned that from a friend of mine
and Orpheus looks him in the eye and then gets up and goes back to his starting position from the beginning of the show.
So that he can try again.
it’s so crazy to me. that i have literally been manifesting jack wolfeus for years and have had all this time to hype him up and yet he exceeded my expectations. literally ALL my favorite orpheus traits. awkward yet so genuinely kind. scared out of his mind a lot of time, yet doing it still. an if it’s true that builds as orpheus gains confidence from the workers. THE SCARF THE WAY I LIKE THE SCARF TO BE TIED. high note during "is this a trap that’s being laid for me". like he hit all the marks and he hasn’t even been orpheus a whole week. JACK WOLFE THE ORPHEUS YOU ARE!!!!
I think one of the biggest strengths and things that is making this current cast on Broadway stand out so much is that for the first time since the original cast that the entire principal cast has been new at the same time. They've gotten to feed off and influence each other and develop their characters together. It's not one or two new people coming in and trying to find out where they fit into an already established cast, but rather everyone being on the same level from the start and getting to create something new
I'm back to talk about Jack Wolfeus HELLO!!
His Orpheus contrasts SO WELL with every other Greek Hero- he plays the part of a fearful but fiercely talented boy who is brimming with emotion, and yearning, and TERROR. He does not venture to the underworld for glory, or for pride, or for riches. He ventures for love, and he does it shaking. He is so much easier to empathize with because that is what drives all of us, all of us have someone on this earth we would go to hell and back for, even if we knew we couldn't save them. He captures the dread, he captures the hopelessness, he captures the knowing that it could not go any other way. He is every tragic lover, he knows the story, and he turns anyway. He's no hero, after all, he's just human.
someone free me from this cycle of obsession NEOW
insane
