it’s an old song

yippee musical theatre!!

[singitagain]

hi hi hi!! You can call me Singer (she/her). This is my blog for musical theatre things, so it’ll just be whatever’s got my interest right now. If I ever make fanart or anything, this’ll be where it goes!

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current interests:

Hadestown

Spies are Forever

the Hatchetfield trilogy + Starkid in general

[kindof-amess]

Thinking about the Hadestown proshot and Orpheus being introduced wiping down a table with his back to the audience. Hermes has to call out to him again to get him to take his opening bow, and for the show to start, Orpheus has to turn around.

[grimalditeuthis]

what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

[sparksandstarsandstories]

btw because I haven’t seen any other warnings: if you are sensitive to flashing lights and planning on seeing the Hadestown proshot, there is some very brief flashing in Papers. The fullscreen flashing is only a few seconds and then it goes back to slower stage lights, but since it’s during an instrumental the best way I can think of to avoid it would be to avoid from the time Hades says, “What becomes of trespassers with no respect for property” to when the Fates start singing again.

If anyone who knows more about photosensitivity or has more specific memory of where the section is wants to chime in, please do! I just haven’t seen any mention of this yet

[singitagain]

Another cue to start avoiding the lights/screen: During Papers (Hades confronting Orpheus in the underworld / “you’re not from around here, son”), the music flips to a funky guitar and drum instrumental and a fight sequence starts. It’s the only fight in the show, so keep in mind fighting = strobe soon.

At the beginning of the fight scene, the lighting is a stable red (I think the stable red portion is at least 30 seconds, but assume it’s less, just to be safe). The red lighting then turns into a strobe for about 25 seconds, during which there’s a drum solo. Once the drums have ended and the fates start singing, the lighting will be stable again.

Hope that helps!!

[obi-wann-cannoli]

Not enough people talking about Andre De Shields. That man has such a presence, such a graceful way of moving. Blessed are those who see the proshot for they have experienced thee one and only Andre De Shields.

[hello-eeveev]

a crude summary of one of my favorite musicals

[just-your-average-shiz-student]

❝With only the memories of when you were mine❞

by swiftsgrath on TikTok | x

[olympain]

Mr. Hades is a mighty king Must be making some mighty big deals Seems like he owns everything Kind of makes you wonder how it feels

[izloveshorses]

it's time for spring. we'll try again next fall.

(happy time loop tragedy musical in movie theaters day to all who celebrate)

[gallium-spoon]

Hermes *literally two minutes into the play*: ok this is a tragedy, it's an old song and we're gonna sing it exactly like it's been sung before and it's tragic because that's how the song goes!

Me: ok, but like, not this time right??

[future-crab]

It's been WAY too long since I listened to the obcr version of "Our Lady of the Underground." I can't believe I forgot about Brian Drye on the trombone.. Marika Hughes on the cello... Dana Lyn on the violin.... Ben Perowsky on the drums... Robinson Morse on the bass.... Michael Chorney on the guitar... and Liam Robinson on the keys.........

[takingupliminalspace]

I will never get over the fact that Hades and Persephone’s parts in Chant are a minor key version of Wedding Song, literally and figuratively

[jpinesart]

something i adore about hadestown is that it still meant something, y'know what i mean? like okay, no orpheus's song did not convince hades to give up his empire. hades' love for persephone isn't enough to deconstruct the machine he's built and has convinced himself that he needs in order to protect what he has. but he let them go. he saw the love eurydice and orpheus had for one another and it convinced him to let them try. orpheus may have turned around but they still walked, they almost made it. doubt set it but they were right there. that's further than anyone else can say. nobody else had made it that far. who's to say someone else can't make it a few steps further? persephone is able to leave the underworld and go home again when she needs to. spring has come again, if we're lucky autumn just might too. will this change be permanent? we don't know. but it's something. it doesn't knock down the wall but it's one brick out of it. and that means something. it wasn't all for nothing. it's a crack in the wall. there's a reason we keep singing this old song.

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

"I don't know about you B̷̪̼̱̥͂O̷̘͔̒̒̓̈́O̵̫̝̫̮͋͌͂O̴̘̝͐̏Ŏ̶̘̘̈́͐Ÿ̸͙̤̭́͐̿̃͜S̴̰̥̈̐"

[ashcigarette]

saw the hadestown proshot today, and all i have to say is AMBER. MF. GRAY. i don’t think y’all comprehend. she could have told the story with JUST her facial expressions. she was so scared for eurydice. so hopeful for orpheus. so angry with hades. and i gathered all of that JUST from her facial expressions. she makes every character she ever plays her own, and i absolutely love that.

something i’ve also come to understand after seeing the proshot is that persephone was not only scared for eurydice, but scared for herself. there were so many times she almost reached for eurydice or orpheus but stopped herself out of fear. so many times you could see her almost say something but stop herself before she could. and in the end, when she finally did stand up for her beliefs and for orpheus and eurydice, it didn’t fix things. it fell apart again. and she will do this again and again because they will sing it again and again.

persephone deserves so much better.

[singitagain]

Just got absolutely annihilated by Act II of the Hadestown proshot, in case anyone was wondering

[weird-goodbyes]

The thing about Hadestown is the line “To know how it ends. And still begin to sing it again. As if it might turn out this time” is an incredible way to describe most of life. We try because we have to believe that even when the ending is set in stone, it’s still worth trying. It’s still better to be a person who tried.