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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“when we saw this in the theater there were so many people who genuinely gasped when he turned around / and people giving little cries of ‘no!’ / in such a way that i wondered how many in the crowd were actually familiar with the myth / or even aware the show was based on a myth? / truly surprising to me how many seemed genuinely surprised at the outcome of hadestown”.
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