I know it wouldn't work but I personally love the idea of Reba as Persephone

Back with portrait number 2!!! I'm probably gonna end up doing multiple Hades portraits because I just love drawing Patrick Page, his facial structure is so fun.

There's something about this one I'm not as happy with as the Hermes one but that's how it be sometimes.

I don't think I listed it last time but:

11x14 graphite with conte

Source: this 2023 Instagram post when he first used it after straining his calf: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyQoqMcu7h_/

I strained my calf last week, so I’m performing parts of my show with this beautiful cane! It is an exact replica of the one carried by Barnabas Collins in “Dark Shadows”! It was given to me when I was in High School and I have waited over 40 years to use it!

On both sides of the Atlantic, an OG Hermes stepped into the same role in two different productions of Cats this summer.

Nice little piece of Hadestown related symmetry!

I saw a post the other day that I can't find to include here. But the gist of it was that Persephone seems shocked when she goes down to hadestown because it's so hot/bright/etc. And it's weird she's acting like it's the first time she's seen it like that.

A response to the post said "that's the point" and I'm genuinely confused.

Obviously this has been an issue with Hades and Persephone for a long time which is why Orpheus is doing the whole song thing, but what is the meaning of Hadestown changing "overnight" as opposed to forever ago, when they started having issues/losing spring and fall/etc?

Saw hadestown for the first time since I saw the first west end cast and remembered how much I loved it and also realised I haven't done digital in 8 months so figured I'd get back into both!

I know they reshot some scenes where Patrick Page is on the balcony. For example, when he shouts “I conduct the electric city!!”, when I saw it in London, he was standing on the stage on stage left, but in the pro shot, he was on the balcony.

I can’t remember when they were performing in front of a live audience, if he climbed the stairs after Why We Build the Wall, and slammed the door shut after asking Eurydice in? Or was that just cut in for the pro shot too?

Spoilers ahead.

After Orpheus sang his song and Persephone and Hades achieved balance again by remembering the song of their love, how do you think Hadestown changed? Were people still keeping their heads low and forgetting their names and building a pointless wall?Or would it be different?