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this is me opening my askbox. my askbox is open. not that it was ever specifically closed but it is open hadestown lovers and viewers of the proshot if you have thoughts and you want to send thoughts into an askbox do it PLEASE i need to hear everyone's thoughts and takeaways so so badly

#hadestown #hadestown proshot

kaslynspeaks

no okay but persephone. when you listen to the soundtrack it's like she's a party girl she drinks and has fun but you guys dont understand because every single time she took a drink she grimaced. every single time. not once did she enjoy herself, because it wasn't her indulging in her wants it was her coping. and even!! even during livin it up on top when everyone takes a drink there's a moment of silence where they all look almost disgusted by it. none of them enjoy it it doesn't taste good to any of them yet still they drink it??

and then UGH okay because lady of the underground i was under the impression that she was interacting with the workers and whatnot like making the cracks in the wall that orpheus was about to break down but there's no one on stage. the only people on stage are the musicians, hermes, and persephone. none of the workers are there. she's singing to herself. do you understand do you get it?? especially with why do we build the wall right before that because I didn't realize persephone was in that song?? and the whole time she looks terrified. she Doesn't want to be here she Doesn't want to engage with this (my mom compared the song to being at a maga rally and she was 100% correct) but she does anyway, perhaps because she's forced to. and the look of heartbreak when eurydice appears; the way eurydice is confused and put off at first, but it doesn't take long for her to learn the words and join in????

eurydice and persephone is a whole other thing because I never realized how much of a relationship they had. like persephone is quick to be friendly with her, and eurydice is enthralled by that attention. but then during chant when persephone is singing about like the earth dying and people starving she's looking at eurydice walking by. she's looking at her and she looks heartbroken, she's reaching out to her but she can't reach her because she's not there. she watches as the fates strip eurydice of everything she has, and then that look of despair changes of one to fear as hades' eyes land on eurydice as he declares he'll find someone else who will be grateful. and I know that like flowers can be like an analogy for sa but I really felt it during that part. not so much in songbird vs rattlesnake? but definitely during the end of chant like AJHVSGDJAS.

and then like I said when eurydice enters the underworld persephone looks shaken. because she knows eurydice, and she knows orpheus, and- idk man. imagine being in hell and someone you know shows up, but you know they can't leave and you know they're soon to become a shell of who they once were. like. yeah

EDIT IF YOURE READING THIS CHECK THE REBLOGS THE ONE WITH BLUE'S TAGS IS THE BEST YOU SHOULD REBLOG THAT ONE NOT THIS ONE!!!!

nythracwn

#THANK YOU for pointing out how persephone looks at eurydice during chant bc i think about that so much #she’s arguing with hades and then her attention is drawn to eurydice. “the harvest dies and people starve” is basically directed at her. #persephone is living with this knowledge and it hurts her #i love how hadestown touches on persephone knowing and caring about eurydice and orpheus #she doesn’t put into words how much she knows them but she interacts with both of them like she’s always known them #how many summers has she gone up top and watched orpheus grow. do you think she catalogues when he’s changed the way a mother might #do you think she looked at eurydice and understood her frustration #do you think she knew what was going to happen. do you think she saw a pattern and knew how orpheus and eurydice would end #also! unrelated to what i just said but in livin it up on top #when orpheus says “she will provide” #and persephone responds with “i will” very emphatically #and she’s looking at orpheus #i wonder how much of that was a promise to herself as much as a promise to him and everyone else around #she’s doing the best she can and she’s seeing more and more that it’s not enough #all she can do is say that she’s going to do everything in her power to provide for the people she loves (blueisconfused)

#When I was playing Persephone in Hadestown #they had me walk onstage a little bit before Eurydice enters the underworld in Why We Build The Wall #and every time I walked onstage #I would just watch the workers sing #And then Eurydice came on and I tried to look as horrified as possible #and during the last verse I would snap my head over to look out in the audience #I tried to convey that it was like I was singing along against my will #if that makes any sense at all and #during our lady of the underground we had workers on stage BUT #there was a section I always had fun with where we were allowed to call a worker over for “come here brother.. lemme guess” and #then we’d dismiss them and then #during the section where she’s singing “when was the last time you saw the sky..?” #I tried to make it very apparent that although she was looking at the audience #she was singing to herself #And I’ve been wanting to find a way to yap for a while so I hope you don’t mind my reblogging with my own shit #she doesn’t put into words how much she knows them but she interacts with both of them like she’s always known them #but I was always trying to make the audience get the feeling that #although I was acting like I was just a bit of an overdramatic party girl #there was a lot I was dealing with as the character and I was coping unhealthily #CHANT TOO WAS ALSO SUPER FUN #initially my Hades (awesome guy) and I had the idea that we’d come up and down the stairs on the platform #and it was intended to look like we were sort of chasing each other arguing about what was going on #but unfortunately we couldn’t execute that because there was only a set of stairs on one side of the platform #it was still awesome though !!!!! I was onstage during the part where Orpheus was singing and #I’d always close my eyes when he was talking about how “lady persephone’s blinded by a river of wine” (exceptformarvin)

Quite the one-two punch from blueisconfused and exceptformarvin!!

mythical-victim

what if i kms

kaslynspeaks

then you would never be able to see them sing it again?

#what if they make it out this time #hadestown #hadestown proshot

alright i’ve seen the proshot and i need to talk about AMBER GREY’S ACTING DURING OF CHANT AND WHY WE BUILD THE WALL???????? she rose up from the ground and looked genuinely HORRIFIED. and she understands immediately what hades is saying when he’s going to “find someone who does” want his love. she’s terrified because she knows exactly what will happen to eurydice. she and eurydice sharing a look before she goes up to hades’s office?? ohhhh i’m still thinking about that. i feel like there’s always been an implication of sa or at least forced coercion there but this was the most overt i think it’s been. (also that one shot where eurydice looks back at persephone and persephone is looking straight back at her. i would like to shake the hands of all the editors of this proshot because they really let amber grey shine)

THIS YES THIS I LOVE YOU PERSEPHONE I LOVE YOU AMBER GREY genuinely like I KNEW that the like opportunity for a implication of sa was there but this gave me chills

#Bardstown #hadestown proshot

"Birthday" next to normal reference???

#its so bad I can't hear the word birthday without going “whose birthday is it??”#next to normal #Henry n2n

blue-sunshine-mauve-morning

I think it'd be fun if Grace did lose his mind a little but on the Hail Mary right, like maybe the amnesia and the side effects of the drug plus isolation and extreme stress and sometimes he experiences vivid hallucinations in between memory dumps so when they get the videos back it becomes very clear that sometimes he's having conversations with people who aren't there and oh my god the alien is real but also what the fuck Grace and the whole timelike the fate of humanity is teetering on the overburdened shoulders of a guy who is obviously not all there and holy shit he still saves the planet but RIP Dr. Grace out here doing whole v-logs about the ongoing argument with Olyesa over her stolen vodka and the debate about mustard on Ramen with Yao and like - he does consciously know they're dead, right, thats clearly not a thing he forgets and yet-

And Rocky is like.... Who Grace talking to? Oh okay, Grace, when last sleep?

Because Yao and Ilyukhina always show up when Grace is really really really tired.

And Rocky has the human-thinking-machine and he’s reading up on ghosts and paranormal activity and does a video while Grace is asleep like.... Earth ship haunted. Yao and Ilyukhina are obviously around to watch Grace, because Grace is all alone.

O.O

And he tries to 'talk' to Yao and Ilyukhina and they don't answer but he's like 'Is Okay. Rocky watch Grace sleep. Rocky watch Yao and Ilyukhina sleep too.'

#aww man dude #project hail Mary

swinging-stars-from-satellites

#next in line

snapdragon-rawrz

so this is basically hwo it is

tending-the-hearth

imagine going to your first rehearsal for a musical and the first words your characters say to each other are “come home with me” “who are you” “the man who’s gonna marry you” and your first duet is a song about a wedding and you get to fall in love doing a show about The Tragic Greek Lovers Ever and then years later you get married to each other and you become the version of the lovers who get a happy ending and get to go home together and you get to do the show again together and now the characters have a different meaning

#no because this is so beautiful to me #can you imagine falling in love with the person playing a character who falls in love with your character #and then getting the chance to reprise the show where you met and fell in love #<- LITERALLY #Also they said in an interview the main reason they wanted to do it #besides getting to reprise the role with the cast #was that they could show it to their kids #so excuse me while I go cry #hadestown #hadestown proshot

blueisconfused

hypothetically if I was writing a hypothetical next to normal fic what would you hypothetically do about that

OMG hypothetically i would hypothetically read it like eighteen times and do a whimsical little dance (hypothetically)

#noted #it might be bad I'm still getting their voices down and whatnot #next to normal #also I don't swear which might be an issue lol

memewhore

quasi-normalcy

"And you, SUH! Are you waiting to receive my LIMP PENIS!?"

froginakettle

for those who don't know, he was completely innocent. they misidentified him as someone else they were looking for.

so all of this wasn't him trying to look innocent. this was him actually being innocent.

He was literally just having a succulent Chinese meal.

trickstertime

"tata, and farewell"

I genuinely wasn't expecting the intonations this guy uses. It's like he's on stage pretending to be english, while also fighting with police