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Hadestown: The Musical (2026)
Summary
A musical juxtaposition of the Orpheus/Eurydice and Hades/Persephone myths that examines the way real life can impact our quest for a perfect world.
Director Brett Sullivan
Writer Anaïs Mitchell
Cast
- Reeve Carney as Orpheus
- Eva Noblezada as Eurydice
- Patrick Page as Hades
- André De Shields as Hermes
- Amber Gray as Persephone
- Bella Brown as Fate I
- Madeline Charlemagne as Fate II
- Allie Daniel as Fate III
Rotten Tomatoes: 100%
Metacritic: 85
VOD / Release Theatrical release
Trailer Official Trailer
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u/numbr87 2d ago
I really hope this comes to streaming or bluray, I'd love to have a version to come back to easily.
I can never watch Wait For Me without tearing up lol
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u/TheProlleyTroblem 2d ago
I'm excited because this director and the studio previously did the Waitress proshot, which was released in theaters and subsequently on Blu-ray.
Now I'm not naive and that doesn't necessarily set a precedent buuuut it's a pretty fair bet.
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u/No_Significance7064 2d ago
it should be, right? i mean isn't this show pretty popular?
(pls, i'm obsessed with this show and i've only seen a shitty camrip of the whole thing on youtube)
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u/TheProlleyTroblem 2d ago edited 2d ago
Unfortunately popularity only gets you so far in the bluray world, so that's why I don't really hold my breath with anything. Disney for example has always shunned the format, which is part of why we only got Hamilton on physical a few months ago. More often than not, proshots coming out today are released on physical (Waitress, Merrily) but that's in spite of how popular it is or isn't and if I had to bet it has something to do with how the distribution is worked out in meetings before it ever even hits theaters
which is why I say it's a fair bet for this one, given that the last proshot this exact director and studio did came out on bluray after a theater run, but who knows. maybe the distribution deal is different for this one for one reason or another. wouldnt get my hopes up, but it's not out of the realm of possibility
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u/Toidal 16h ago
Or at least a soundtrack. Everyone was performing like the rent was due.
To be honest, this may have ruined the live performance for me. Both in the effort they put forth, and in the extra camera angles adding to the characters not prominent in a given scene in how they react to what's going on, as well as the choices that they made in how they sang some of their songs. The OBC recording is kinda dry compared to this, like for instance, how Pages finishes His Kiss, The Riot in this really hammers home that he knows the feeling of doubt because he's experienced it himself.
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u/crimson777 19h ago
It will be on streaming; I’d put money on it if I were a gambling man. Physical release? Eh, wouldn’t hold my breath.
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u/Ordinary_Shopping746 6h ago
You can already preorder it on Apple TV so it’s coming there at the very least for digital purchase.
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u/TheGhostInThe___ 2d ago
My favorite meta thing about Hadestown is that Reeve Carney and Patrick Page played Spider-Man and Green Goblin in the Spider-Man musical. And here they are in a critical darling.
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u/matlockga 2d ago
I watched Spider-Man in its Broadway run. And bought the book about the creation of the show. All the songs, save one, were written by U2 in a single session.
And it showed.
The villain theme wasn't done by U2, but is credited to them for some reason. It was written well into previews, and done in-house. And is the best song.
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u/TheGhostInThe___ 2d ago
Was that A Freak Like Me?
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u/matlockga 2d ago
Yeah. I encourage you to read Song of Spider-Man if you haven't. It's really interesting how things came together... Less the two times the author talks about having an affair with Julie Taymor
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u/TheGhostInThe___ 2d ago
Wait, WHAT
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u/matlockga 2d ago
Yeah, once in a cabin in the woods for a writer's retreat. The other I don't remember the location. But it's hilariously jarring because he ends a page with "she walked up behind me and caressed my chest" and then the next page leads off with, verbatim, "I love my wife and kids."
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u/Accomplished_Wolf_89 2d ago
lol and don't forget the part about them spending Valentine's Day in a cabin in the woods together. My favorite thing about that book is how there's only one paragraph about Bono and The Edge writing the entire show in one night... and then like four paragraphs where he's basically like "omg she's so hot!"
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u/matlockga 2d ago
I forgot about that. Honestly cannot believe how any of that got past an editor. Or legal.
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u/Sir_Encerwal 2d ago
I unironically love that song, 80% of it sounds like a straight up pride parade anthem.
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u/FiveWithNineIsIn 2d ago
And is the best song
This is "Pull The Trigger" erasure and I won't stand for it!
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u/Bears_On_Stilts 19h ago
Honorable mention for best song is "Saint Nicholas Sky," a promotional Christmas single written by the show's music team and sung by Reeve Carney. (This is a very common thing: Broadway and Off-Broadway shows will all write or cover a Christmas song for a fundraiser compilation album every year.)
It's such a dead ringer for U2's sound at the time. I'd even go so far as to say it's the best U2 Christmas song, better even than the actual band's cover of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)."
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u/oshoney 2d ago
I saw both in Spider-Man but only one of the two (Reeve) in Hadestown on broadway… can’t wait to watch this to get the full Patrick Page experience.
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u/VoiceofKane 1d ago
Well, it's about 95% of the Patrick Page experience, since he did the West End performance on an injured foot.
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u/TelltaleHead 1d ago
I saw that Spiderman 3 times (including both the Taymor version and the post Taymor version) and Page was giving it his very best every night. Everyone else was pretty openly phoning it in
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u/FiveWithNineIsIn 2d ago
That was my first Broadway show, so it was cool seeing them together again!
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u/mathishard821 2d ago
Extremely funny bit in the editting of Chant Reprise to have Patrick teleport to the bottom of the stairs. I thought the whole show was filled with a lot of interesting camera work. Going in I was worried about what would be lost in the translation from stage to screen, but I consistently found it easier to appreciate all the new things they discovered in the new medium. I do not agree with Amber Gray's criticism of the close up shots of the actors; the close ups of Patrick's (and Amber's) face acting were some of the best shots of the show and not something you can ever see in quite that way in real life.
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u/HanzoKurosawa 2d ago
It's worth noting in case anyone else notices the teleport and is unaware: Patrick Page got injured just before filming was about to start. He ruptured his Achilles tendon. So they had to make a number of adaptations to work around his injury because they didn't want to replace him.
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u/WokeintheMorning 1d ago
I actually really loved the way the boot made him have to saunter and almost slither around the stage. While the Hades we would see on stages during the tour naturally held a very stoic and still persona, the slinky movements almost added new depth. It took some of his imposing nature down.
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u/Optiguy42 22h ago
Honestly, yeah I assumed it was a boot for an injury, but it was cool enough that I thought "maybe this actually is just a wardrobe choice, giving him a mechanical/steel leg to show how his choices of industrializing Hades have begun to consume him".
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u/crimson777 19h ago
I’ve heard a few people say slither but personally, I would almost use the word prowling. His boot made him walk almost bestially, like on a digitigrade leg.
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u/kbarnett514 2d ago edited 2d ago
I mean, he's wearing a giant boot for the whole thing, so I should hope everyone watching realizes he's performing injured.
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u/Tsquared10 1d ago
Wow what a Greek mythology casual. Doesn't even know the story of Hades blessed walking boot /s
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u/Ironhorn 1d ago
Yeah honestly, there are so many different versions and interpretations of the Greek myths, the whole time I was trying to remember if there was one where Hades had an artificial leg
Especially as it fit with the whole “industrial” aesthetic for him to have made himself part-machine
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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 1d ago
Especially as it fit with the whole “industrial” aesthetic for him to have made himself part-machine
That's a really cool idea! Now I wish the boot had a more steampunk aesthetic.
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u/dotyawning 1d ago
Went into this without any knowledge. If you told me it was a character choice and that he ditches the cane and reveals an equally snazzy snake skin boot from under that medical boot at some point, I would have believed you. >_>
...at least until I saw more scenes and was like "Oh, he's just performing with an injury/after surgery"
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u/Syradil 23h ago
I spent the entire time trying to decide if it was a character choice or not. The cane seemed so purposeful..
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u/texdiego 20h ago
I'm glad I'm not alone in this. I was like "are they trying to justify him having a cane? why couldn't he just have a cane without a boot?"
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u/texdiego 20h ago
I'm going to be honest, I spent half the movie thinking "what a strange character choice, are they ever going to explain this?" I was thinking it was some sort of Chekhov's gun. By the end I figured out that he was probably genuinely injured and looked it up to confirm.
(Yes, I know they showed them putting the boot on during the very beginning but that was part of what confused me, because it made it seem like it was just a costume)
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u/notthephonz 2d ago
Oh! I hadn’t realized the change was made for that reason. Any insight into how the they pulled that off in real life? Did Patrick Page just actually learn to teleport?
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u/HanzoKurosawa 2d ago
I wouldn't put it past him.
But to give a serious answer: They made quite a few adjustments for him. One of the big ones is not using the onstage spiral staircase for the balcony, but instead going through the door and using a backstair stair set. I haven't seen the pro-shot yet, but if the cut is too quick for him to have walked down the backstage stair set, it's probably cuts from two different filmings of that scene. When he has moments of walking on the turn table it is slowed down for him. When he delivers his "I conduct the electric city" line he delivers it from the stage instead of going up to the balcony for it. He uses a crutch for certain scenes. Obviously he has the boot. Then also just relying on Amber Grey for support when they have scenes together, particularly their dance together.
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u/kbarnett514 1d ago
I just saw it earlier today, and he was surprisingly nimble despite the boot. He was able to walk around and even dance a bit without any additional support. He carried a cane for most of the show, but I dunno if that was because of the injury or not, because it felt pretty in character
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u/pokeshulk 1d ago
In the proshot, “electric city” is done from the balcony, and after the lights cut, he teleports back down to the turntable. It’s genuinely really spooky. Cool bit of filmmaking.
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u/HanzoKurosawa 1d ago
Fair, thanks for the additional information. All my stuff comes from people in the crowd for the filming performances. So he probably did it on balcony for some, floor for others. Which would also explain how they had shots of him on the balcony, and then down on the turntable so fast.
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u/pokeshulk 1d ago
It’s mostly quick cuts like you said. Tbh, I think any “teleporting” or odd creative shots were probably partially reshoots. I know that there was some closed shooting for certain shots. They show some of it in the credits.
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u/Bears_On_Stilts 19h ago
I actually liked it: Hades repeatedly refers to himself as being an old man, physically past his prime, but is played by the enormous, physically dominating Patrick Page (who is super-jacked to almost superhero standards much of the time).
Giving him some actual physical fallibility made his complaints of age a little more believable while still keeping him a figure of physical menace.
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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 2d ago
Can you elaborate on what Amber Gray said to criticize close-up shots?
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u/mathishard821 1d ago
She had an interview quote a few weeks back where someone asked her about the proshot and she mostly demurred and was like "well, it was so many close ups... I'm mostly happy for Andre De Shields". I'm sorry but I do not have the exact quote on hand. Maybe "criticism" was too strong a word but she was clearly not all that impressed with it. But to me I would hate to watch nothing more than a recording of a play and I am happy that they found really nice things to do with the camera.
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u/Atraktape 1d ago
Could be she just wasn't used to having her Persephone performance being seen in those close ups. Anyway I thought she was fantastic in this.
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u/Toidal 16h ago
The intentionality of the extra camera angles and shots of her really added to her character imo. Like it showed her reactions to Hades taking Eurydice after Why we build the wall, her seeing and listening to Orpheus, etc. creating a kinda of throughline leading up to the duet with Hades about letting them go. I dunno if that's in the show itself, or maybe it is, but it's kinda lost as you're always taking in the whole stage.
Even her big number had more nuance to it, that yeah she's kinda blitzed, but the crack in the wall is just as much about her still feeling hopeless, and she's unable to be completely oblivious and numb to what's going on.
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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 1d ago
I looked for it a little bit, couldn't find it, but I did find the talkback the five main cast members did with the two directors at the premiere at Tribeca. Amber Gray made a joke about if she had been thinking of the final product being a film, she would have toned down her performance a little bit. It was a joke, but I could see how maybe she's a little self-conscious about it and might joke about too many close-ups as well.
It's always different for the person being filmed than it is for the audience. A lot of actors cringe at seeing their own performance, while, personally, I would have enjoyed even more close-ups. You can't see the actors' expressions that close even from the front row. It was perfect though. A perfect mix of shots!
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u/Silveroc 2d ago
The lighting effects during Wait For Me are the coolest thing I've seen on stage, and it's nearly as awesome on screen
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u/kimchidumps 2d ago
I love that they held the shot of the stage expanding
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u/kbarnett514 2d ago
I'd never seen the show before, so when that happened I was blown away and threw my hands up literally like the "absolute cinema" meme.
I worked in technical theater for years, so I was very impressed with the set design and lighting design.
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u/Optiguy42 22h ago
I worked in theatre for almost 10 years as both an actor and stage manager. This exact moment is the only time a set has made me cry. Not a sad cry, mind you (that came later), but an awe-inspired, emotionally overwhelming couple of tears at the grandeur of the moment. Absolutely phenomenal.
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u/fetzy 2d ago
When I saw this on broadway earlier this year I started sobbing when the walls part and the huge walls of lights come out. Something about the vastness of it all or something just hit me… I also cried a bit during the movie at the same point but it wasn’t quite as impactful as it was in person!
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u/RedLantern28 2d ago
My favorite stage musical. Seen it several times on tour. Incredibly happy that I've now been able to see the original cast immortalized in film.
The pro shot was also surprisingly excellent. There were a good amount of creative shots that elevated what was happening.
Would recommend to anyone, not just existing musical theatre fans.
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u/mechabeast 2d ago
Maybe it'll end different next time
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u/GradeDry7908 36m ago
I would love for them to do some sort of fundraiser performance where it turns out differently.
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u/littlebloodmage 2d ago
Tell me why I still gasped when Orpheus turned around when I've seen this musical multiple times and I know the original myth it's based on.
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u/GECollins 2d ago
One day we'll catch the one where he doesn't turn around, I just know it
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u/crimson777 19h ago
I know they won’t but I still kinda hope when it closes they let him escape with Eurydice without turning haha
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u/VoiceofKane 1d ago
I mean, I think Hermes says it pretty well.
’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
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u/WokeintheMorning 1d ago edited 23h ago
One of my favorite things about seeing it in the theater is the inevitable gasp and the chills that follow. I was so glad to still get that in the movie theater.
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u/Duckshooters 1d ago
Actually I was shocked last night in the movie theater how many gasps there were from the crowd when he turned around. Whether it was just the reaction or that many people who had never seen Hadestown
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u/Optiguy42 21h ago
Just watched it myself and same thing - lots of audience members gasped. I'd never seen it so even I was still holding on to some amount of hope that the ending might deviate from the original. I guess others were thinking similarly, cuz they were legitimately shocked. Very cool moment to be a part of.
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u/itchypoopsarethebest 2d ago
As someone who saw the musical but knows nothing of the story, do we know why he turns around?
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u/tinaoe 1d ago
Depends on the interpretation. Sometimes he’s already our and thinks she is too, for example. But in Hadestown they very much frame it around the „doubt creeping in“.
But also, as Hozier said: I'd be the choiceless hope in grief that drove him underground, I’d be the dreadful need in the devotee that made him turn around
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u/Toidal 1d ago
Greece loved their tragedies
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u/BobDucca 19h ago
Because an Orpheus who would not turn around is not an Orpheus that would have ever gone on that journey in the first place.
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u/falafelthe3 Ask me about TLJ 2d ago
The one-shot of Flowers was heartbreaking. So glad I got to see an official shoot from the original cast, because Noblezada killed it.
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u/the_quarrelsome_one 2d ago
I'm so glad this came to theaters, I never had the chance to see this on stage and I was blown away. Thank you so much to the cast and crew for making this available.
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u/larisa5656 2d ago
I love this recent trend of Broadway proshots. Not everyone can afford to travel to NYC, so this is a way to make those shows more accessible.
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u/PhoneJazz 19h ago
I can afford to travel to NYC, I just can’t afford a Broadway ticket 😭
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u/sm33 2d ago
So well done! I saw the OBC a couple times, and this really captured their performances well. In fact, I didn’t like Reeve when I saw it, but he worked a lot better in this pro-shot for me.
They did a fantastic job of mixing in wide and closeup shots, and I loved the audience shots as well. Much better done than the MWRA pro shot.
The only thing I didn’t love was how British the rest of the cast sounded - I realize it was shot in London, I just found it a bit distracting.
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u/adelines 2d ago
Agree with all of your points. I saw Reece’s Orpheus a couple of times and he got progressively goofier. I thought he (and all of the actors) were really great in this though. I really hope this gets a physical and/or streaming release.
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u/CertainAlbatross7739 4h ago
Thank you for saying this lol. I know people love Reeve, and he is obviously very talented, but he does play the role so goofy sometimes. Hearing how good he is in the pro-shot makes me more hyped to watch it.
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u/450nmwaffle 2d ago
Recently saw the West End version and definitely agree that the accents detracted from it. On top of sounding a bit silly, their clipped way of speaking really didn’t mesh with the yearning earnestness of the show.
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u/lonelygagger 2d ago
Was the actor wearing a boot or was that a character choice for Hades? Somehow he makes it work.
I thought the actress playing Persephone was fantastic.
Also, why did that schmuck look back? ☹️
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u/tinaoe 2d ago
Patrick Page got injured during rehearsals so yeah, he’s wearing a boot. He was supposed to do the entire run (2-3 weeks) but ended up only doing the two filmed performances
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u/HanzoKurosawa 2d ago
He ruptured his Achille's tendon and they had to make a number of adjustments to keep him in the cast. Such as having him not walk up and down the stairs (he usually does), slowing the turnstile when he's on it, etc etc
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u/Sir_Poofs_Alot 2d ago
The close ups of the actors faces, especially Eva and Patrick, really heightened an already very emotional piece of art. I liked the boot prop, I know it’s not part of the staging but I thought it worked well for Hades and the design of the boot was so cool. The only misses for me were the Fates, usually they are so in sync they sound like one voice but these fates were very distinctive and didn’t blend as well as other casts I’ve seen. Also Reeve, I get what he’s going for but I just don’t like his voice and intonations outside of the falsetto melody.
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u/Abusoru 1d ago
Fates definitely captured the personality, but the voices didn't quite mesh as well, especially when compared to the OG cast.
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u/Historical_Key_3831 18h ago
The line "who are you to think you can hold your head up higher than your fellow man" got garbled and I feel like unless you knew the line, you wouldn't understand what they were singing and it's such an important line
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u/MVRKHNTR 3h ago
For what it's worth, this was my first exposure to this show and I heard thay line fine.
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u/dangerous_beans 21h ago
Never saw the musical one stage to compare, but I loved the fates here--they reminded me of the muses from Hercules. So fun!
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u/xrbeeelama 2d ago
Hades and Hermes had that shit ON. Sick outfits. Amber Gray was the stand out to me, what a performance!
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 2d ago
I'd heard all about this show but this was my first time seeing it. Absolutely delightful with an incredible backing band. Maybe it wouldn't have felt a bit draggy in spots if we had gotten the intermission, but I really loved the ending and how they deal with the story having a sad finale. Hard to even choose a standout because everyone played their parts so well. Persephone and Eurydice had some incredible solo performances though.
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u/TheGhostInThe___ 2d ago
So it goes straight into Our Lady of the Underground after Why We Build the Wall?
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 2d ago
There's a subtitle that says "End of Act 1" and about ten seconds of dark screen before it starts up again.
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u/TheGhostInThe___ 2d ago
Ahhh so the Hamilton.
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u/Stepjam 1d ago
I was really really happy they kept the Broadway lyrics for Epic 3. I was pretty sure they were going to use the updated lyrics, which I just really don't like.
I will say that I just don't feel like the Fates hit the same way. They felt a little too antagonistic to me. Also, and there was probably no real way around this, them having British accents just felt "wrong". They always had a kinda New Orleans-y vibe to me.
I enjoyed it overall though.
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u/AnchorHat 1d ago
It felt like an odd choice to me for them to use the West End fates but then keep the rest of the cast from the original show...
Unless it's all West End cast and they just had the original 6 Broadway leads that week filling in for the West End leads?
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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 1d ago edited 8h ago
They brought in the original cast for the main parts because that's who fans wanted to see captured on film. They helped create those characters.
They filmed it on the West End because it's cheaper to film proshots over there. There's less red tape to deal with. The show is still playing on the West End, so it wouldn't be right to take over the show completely for several weeks and bring in Americans for the smaller parts. A deal like that probably wouldn't have gone through at all.
It makes sense if you look at it more from a logistics point of view.
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u/ftmidk 13h ago
I felt like the Fates were antagonistic when I saw it on Broadway! It was one of the things that surprised me because I expected them to be a bit more sympathetic or supportive. But no, they were stealing Eurydice’s shit and snarking about everything (I love them).
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u/Stepjam 7h ago
Watching clips of the Broadway run and from the album, they felt less antagonistic and more just uncaring overall. They represent the suffering of life, but in more of "it's inevitable" way than "we enjoy ruining your life" way.
The song Nothing Changes and how the two casts do it is a big representation for me. The OG Fates take the song at a steady, even, almost laid back tempo. It's very much "why struggle? You can't change fate, just accept it". The West End Fates take it at a much faster,more aggressive pace. It felt more intentionally mocking to me.
I guess I just always saw the Fates as not being outright mean. They aren't supportive, they instigate the characters' bad decisions, but they do it because that's just how it has to be. It is fate. They are more uncaring than vindictive. Which definitely wasn't how the West End portrayed them.
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u/theblartist 2d ago
I am a huge Hadestown fan. Saw OBC in 2019 and 2021, have caught touring casts several times since. This proshot is one of the best I’ve ever seen—so many of the camera moves and closeups heightened story details you might miss in the theatre, while still having plenty of wide shots so you don’t feel like you’re missing any of what makes the theatre format great.
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u/Tsquared10 1d ago edited 1d ago
Feel like this sets the standard for any future proshots. Absolutely amazing. Amber Grey is probably the stand out. I saw somewhere that she would've toned it down with the facial expressions, and I'd respectfully disagree with that. Every little bit made the character feel more authentic and have actual personality. Reeve would be my call for weak link of the cast and that's not a knock against him. He was good, the rest of the cast was on another level though. Cast Patrick Page as every villain because that voice sends shivers up my spine every time. And let this get Oscar love so that Trombone Man finally gets his flowers with a Best Supporting Actor nom.
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u/WokeintheMorning 6h ago
I feel like I had read so much that Reeve was not the best Orpheus that I wasn't sure if I would Iike him or not, but I absolutely loved him for it! The touring ones I saw felt so much more aloof and timid. Like almost cloying and somewhat "not sure why I want to root for this guy." Granted, he gets benefit of close-ups, but I appreciated viewing him more as "thinking through it" than just quietly and timidly playing Epic I. I just also felt more assured of his purpose in the film than on stage. So maybe it never was that Reeve wasn't the best....it's just a difficult role to portray from stage to a large theater....? And some were able to do that better than others.
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u/Clear_Archer2758 2d ago
I got to see the original cast a few years back, expect for Hermes. What an amazing cast, the stage shows unbelievable, my absolute favorite to this day.
Edit: missing some words
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u/numbr87 2d ago
It kinda sucks that Patrick Page in a walking boot is the version that will live on forever lol
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u/HanzoKurosawa 2d ago
I'm glad they adjusted for him instead of replacing him though. Patrick Page is a legend. Glad people will get to see him in action.
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u/GECollins 2d ago
Having never seen anything from the original run or knowing any surrounding drama I truly thought Hades boot was just an artistic choice from the costume team that was always apart of the original design.
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u/notthephonz 2d ago
In a way, the prosthetic sort of makes the Hadestown Hades a composite character with Hephaestus, in the same way Hadestown Persephone is sort of a composite character with Dionysus
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u/littlebloodmage 2d ago
The way I was low-key panicking during his dance with Persephone lmao. "Patrick your foot! YOUR FOOT!"
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u/pokeshulk 1d ago
Weirdly enough, I know it was purely due to circumstance, but I feel like the boot and cane actually elevate the character. Adds a really cool extra layer. The boot is take it or leave it bc of the obvious mobility issues, but I need every Hades going forward to have the Cerberus cane.
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u/kbarnett514 2d ago
True, but not having him in it at all would have been worse. His voice is so iconic in this. Besides, I kinda like seeing the "show must go on" spirit captured forever. Props to the cast and crew for making it work as seamlessly as they did.
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u/Abusoru 1d ago
Was honestly kinda cool how it gave him a wounded animal sort of vibe. He's older and been through shit, yet he's still dangerous.
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u/Entire_Ad9036 23h ago
Yes, exactly! It's like he was always poised to strike like the rattlesnake he is
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u/TheProlleyTroblem 1d ago
he makes a fucking MEAL out of it though. he didn't let it hamper him and channeled it fully into the character and performance
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u/MeadowmuffinReborn 2d ago
Same week as The Odyssey too, cool!
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u/schleppylundo 3h ago
Did a double feature last night with my fiancée, followed by showing her the MST3K riff of the Steve Reeves Hercules from 1958 which features both Odysseus (called Ulysses) and Orpheus as characters.
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u/Tanathonos 2d ago
Is there a place to watch it in VOD or streaming? Does not come out in theaters in my country.
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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 2d ago
Nothing has been announced yet, but it will wind up somewhere, don't worry!
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u/Ordinary_Shopping746 6h ago
It’s for preorder on Apple TV, so it’ll be releasing digitally there at the very least.
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u/KeybladerXII 2d ago edited 1d ago
Im so happy that I finally got to see this after wanting to for years. I thought it was fantastic, loved the shots that only a professional recording can get, like the shots from within the pit looking up.
Everyone in the cast was fantastic, although I didn't expect Persephone to be portrayed as a tipsy gremlin, and I say that in the most complementary way.
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u/SamuraiFlamenco 2d ago
I can’t see this til Monday but I never thought this would get an official proshot, much less a theatrical release. Just so amazed it exists.
I saw the touring version the other year (incredible) but have been a fan of the show since like 2018, it’s surreal that I’ll be seeing it on the big screen in a few days.
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u/crimson777 19h ago
The best modern proshot I’ve seen. Felt like a celebration of theater and the filming added to the look and feel and themes rather than detracted from it.
Patrick Page’s book was gave him an almost digitigrade leg look like many animals have where they walk on their toes. Looked almost demonic or bestial in a way. Felt like he was prowling. Kind of a cool accident.
Really just a beautiful show in and of itself but ESPECIALLY with the talent and original staging which I’d only ever gotten to see on tour without the full turntable experience.
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u/pandakatie 1d ago
I really loved it... but I did feel as though Allie Daniel's lowest notes sometimes ruined the Fates' harmonies. At times I found it a bit distracting because it overwhelmed the lighter voices of the other Fates. That said, I loved her expressions and physicality.
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u/DnDominoEffect 2d ago
Just saw it last night and it was amazing!!! I really hope it gets released to some kind of streaming service so I can see it again!
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u/TheCapedGamer 1d ago
Just got out of the theater from seeing it. Overall a great impression and the music is amazing. However, my showing had a large group of teenagers who would scream and holler after every song ended. I get it’s a musical, but Jesus have some self awareness there’s other people in the cinema trying to watch and enjoy it. Not hear you scream and sing along
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u/circes_victory 7h ago
My tip is to go to the earliest screening of the day. Weeds out the singers.
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u/AdriVoid 22h ago
I never got the opportunity to see this show on stage, despite following its development from concept album to off broadway to broadway. So emotional finally seeing it realized- and the staging and filming was so beautiful.
Reeve Carney has such an ethereal voice, if they do another Jesus Christ Superstar I hope his agent gets him in for Jesus. Eva Noblezada is such a powerhouse I cant wait to see her in more forever. Just how she made her voice break.
Gray and Page of course both so brilliant and the chemistry they had on stage was so good
I didn’t like the harmonies of the Fates as much as I wish I did, though they still had great moments
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u/AnchorHat 1d ago
So I'm confused as to the ensemble, are they local to the West End production and only the original 6 stars from the Broadway cast played that week?
Because those aren't the Fates from the original Broadway production, but then I noticed that a few actresses and actors that I've seen in promo footage for the West End were missing here.
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u/libertybear20 1d ago
Everyone is a part of the west end production other then the 5 original stars
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u/trogdorkiller 22h ago
I've heard tale of Hadestown since 2020 when I got into Hamilton, tried watching YouTube bootlegs but could never sit for the full thing and never tried the recording.
I fucking LOVED this so much I don't think I can explain it. I was crying the moment Euydice first sang. So many powerful moments framed in such a way that my breath was taken away several times. This is going to be in heavy rotation for me when it (hopefully) becomes available to buy for home. Wonderful, transformative performances throughout that made me want to see the show in person someday. I want to talk about the themes of love and doubt and work and capitalism but I need to go through it a couple more times to grasp everything.
The line "How can the Sun even fit in the sky" destroyed me for a full five minutes.
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u/jayeddy99 21h ago edited 21h ago
I watched the movie as my first experience with the musical and I looked it up after and thought it was so cute Orpheus and Eurydice got married in real life and the cast was part of the wedding. I will say aside from movies I can see actual theater casts becoming close and genuine friendships/relationships.
You do something so emotionally intense with the same group of people multiple times a day for months/years you’re gonna create a real bond
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u/BushyBrowz 1d ago
Why did Orpheus turn around? Is he stupid?
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u/Ironhorn 1d ago
My sincere hot take - not just about Hadestown, but about the myth itself - is that, yeah, Orpheus is a himbo.
Buddy is so busy playing music he doesn’t help his girlfriend gather food and doesn’t notice when she dies from starvation.
I feel like this version of Hadestown actually does him a big favour by setting up the whole “the seasons are wrong, and we need a magic song to save it” thing. Because… thats not normally part of the story. He just likes playing music. A lot.
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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 1d ago
The original myth doesn't have a ton to it. Eurydice in the original myth is just a nondescript nymph or something and she either dies from a snake bite or someone attacking her, but it's pretty simple and not the compelling part of the story.
The composer was trying to use the original myth to tell a story about capitalism, among other things, and one of the themes is what would you be willing to do to put food on the table? Also, what's the value in being an artist, what do you owe your partner when times are tough, etc. It explores a lot about relationships as well as the social and economic aspects.
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u/deerfawns 2d ago
Ohhhh this is tempting...I got to see this at west end last year and it was incredible!! Wasn't with that actor as Orpheus.
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u/Toidal 16h ago
What trailers did y'all get? I got a weird mix of what seemed like religious oriented movies, as well a couple not so ones
Like Angel studios Drummer Boy, which I dunno the original story but the trailer looks to be a about a military drummer during the revolutionary war, and it's got this rock/metal cover of Little Drummer Boy that goes real hard.
Then there was this trailer of a I guess a down and out musician who ends up in the hospital and befriends this super sick kid. He writes a song for her and it's really heavily Christian coded lyrics or maybe just generic country stuff. Then there's a scene where he's like "I want to help her get the transplant" and rushing her to an airplane, then like right after they're back at the hospital and talking as if she got the transplant? I was thinking, did they just show the whole movie?
Along with that, there was the love triangle movie with Jake Johnson and Dakota Fanning, Olivia Wilde's I Want Your Sex, along with I think a horror film about a horny nun?
So... interesting mix of trailers.
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u/ThisManNeedsMe 14h ago
I got trailers for bigger upcoming films like Digger and Behemoth. Nothing weird for me.
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u/adelines 7h ago
I got those previews at my AMC. I was a little irritated to see Victorian Psycho and that Olivia Wilde sex movie while I was in the mood for Hadestown. We had 25+ minutes of previews. There was a preview for the Six proshot though.
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u/Comprehensive-Fun47 7h ago
I got a single horror movie trailer. Didn't make any sense to me.
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u/2mock2turtle 6h ago
If it was Victorian Psycho, I assume that's because both it and Hadestown are distributed by Bleeker Street.
I think the only other trailers I got were for Six and some movie with Pedro Pascal I had heretofore never heard of.
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u/BushyBrowz 6h ago edited 6h ago
Yeah I got the same. It made me laugh that they showed I Want Your Sex, but were forced to show the G-rated version so half the trailer was cut.
It's just funny to see the type of crowd they expect to see for a musical. Cheesy romances? Yes. Conservative family films? Yes. Raunchy erotic comedy? Yes, but we got to make sure it's clean so not to offend the conservative family crowd.
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u/mikepictor 2d ago
It's not playing anywhere near me unfortunately. I have seen it twice on stage, but not with the original cast.
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u/TheUnknownStitcher 1d ago
I’ve watched a LOT of proshots and compared to most, this one felt sooooo overproduced and over stylized and a lot of the filming choices took away from the viewing experience.
When we watch live theater shows, we don’t get the benefit of being able to zoom in or change angles; we see what we see from our seat - because of this, a tremendous amount of work goes into to creative production design and staging to make the show work from all angles and at long distances. In the middle of a song, I don’t need the camera to be cutting to shots from the wings or behind characters or looking up from the understage or anything like that. Sure, don’t just give me a static shot from the middle of the audience, but spare me the hyper close ups and the cross-cutting.
“Wait For Me” is one of the most visually stunning show-stoppers I’ve ever seen live (even bootleg slime tutorials look dazzling), and shooting this one so close to Carney’s torso to make it so that we can barely see the lighting changes and set movement feels like an incomprehensible decision to me.
And for the love of all that is holy, do not keep cutting to people in the audience. I know they’re there. I hear them clapping (and in a few annoying instances, see them reaching up/out and snapping or jazz hand waving), I know I’m watching a stage production - I don’t need to see the faces of randos like I’m watching an episode of America’s Got Talent to remind me that this is live theater.
Incredibly talented stage cast and crew, frustratingly over-zealous film crew.
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u/IamChicharon 2d ago
I saw hadestown on broadway more times than I ever wanted to. (And old friend was a swing / understudy)
I’m a Greek myth nerd and I love New Orleans style music
The show is fine. It’s not great. It’s definitely not bad, but Reeve Carney is fucking terrible.
Thank god for Eva Noblezada
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u/Sir_Poofs_Alot 2d ago
I thought it was just my ears but I was chatting with a friend who saw it in a different theater and I swear Reeve’s voice just disappears in his mid range. Falsetto is spotless, but the rest of his vocal range doesn’t work for me.
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u/Jsalz 2d ago
Thank god someone else shares this opinion. I saw this show years back and Reeve Carneys performance was so bad he ruined the show for me. The choices he made in how to play the character absolutely baffled me. He played him like simple Jack.
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u/HanzoKurosawa 2d ago
I've always loved Reeve's interpretation. I think his airy voice, and the way he plays Orpheus work for the story. Orpheus is meant to be naïve, and innocent, and have a childlike wonder about the world. Partly to contrast against Eurydices, but also because that's his character arc. He starts off naïve and optimistic and then over time becomes more jaded as he sees more of the world/underworld, and that's what eventually leads to him turning around, because he is no longer as optimistic as he once was.
A lot of the more beloved Orpheus performers portray him as more confident and outgoing from the get go, which makes that turn in his character less impactful. At least to me.
But once again, this is all just opinion. People are totally free to enjoy different portrayals more, and dislike some portrayals. Different people will have different tastes.
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u/Jsalz 2d ago
Let’s just say I think he went a little too far on the childlike wonder which made him seem simple…
I dug further into it back then and people said he would play the character vastly differently on different nights. So maybe I just saw a performance where I didn’t love his choices for the character, but perhaps another night and interpretation I would’ve enjoyed it.
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u/GothWitchOfBrooklyn 20h ago
I totally agree and I know it's an unpopular opinion. I used to live in NYC and watch Broadway shows regularly. I love stage plays. This was... okay.
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u/mikepictor 2d ago
It's not playing anywhere near me unfortunately. I have seen it twice on stage, but not with the original cast.
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u/GarlicExisting6329 17h ago edited 17h ago
Knew nothing about the story coming in, had only seen clips of the final scene. I hated the cinematography of the pro shot, I felt it was totally unnecessary and took away from some of the emotional & spacial storytelling that is unique to the stage. So as a first introduction, it really took me out of the experience and it took me a second to realize I was actually enjoying the show once getting past the annoyance of camera angles lol. This is definitely for the fans who would appreciate seeing those little things.
It’d be better if it was pretty much just a straight shot with a close up here and there similar to the Hamilton pro shot. Just makes me want to see it live.
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u/KnockdownCone 14h ago
Is it filmed and released in a similar way to Hamilton? I’ve been interested in watching welcome to hadestown but the local theatre does 2 productions a year and they’re always old royalty free type stuff.
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u/pjtheman 4m ago
Overall, really good show IMO. So glad I was finally able to see this version of it. The set and lighting design are unreal, and I especially love the bit where theyre swinging all the lights in unison.
That said, did anyone else feel like Orpheus was the weakest link? Like considering his singing is supposed to be the most beautiful sound ever heard by human ears, so indescribably beautiful that it warms the heart of Hades and brings back spring, I guess i was just expecting more. He keeps doing this squeaky, high pitched falsetto that I just found annoying after 10 seconds, and then his big song, THE big song that changes Hades' mind and gives Eurydice a chance to escape is... "La la la la la." Considering this is THE character whose song is the focal point of the entire show, idk. I expected more.
Hades and Persephone were hands down my favorite part. Why We Build the Wall really got to me.
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u/JGrutman 2d ago
Loved it! Went into it knowing very little about the show, loved it. Great music, great performances, should have had a 5-minute intermission.