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Jul. 27th, 2019 10:32 amI went down to New York this week to see the musical Hadestown with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
newredshoes (who had seen it years ago, the NYTW version, and has now written up a great comparison post.) I have been hearing people rave about this show for the last half decade; I also made a very deliberate choice not to listen to the soundtrack beforehand, so here is what I had osmosed about the show before going in:
- the plot involves Orpheus and Eurydice
- Amber Grey is Persephone is the most important and beautiful thing on the stage
- Patrick Page is Hades is also the Green Goblin from Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark and thus part of an important cultural moment in my life
- (and Orpheus is Reeve Carney who was Spiderman and thus ditto)
- 1930s? dustbowl??
And all of these things did indeed turn out to be true! (Though apparently the show is much less dustbowl-y than it used to be.)
( No one told me that the plot also involved LABOR UNIONS but to be fair I guess they're new )
...so anyway that's what I got from the show! Time to go buy the soundtrack and find every gif of Amber Grey dancing, because that woman's stage presence is absolutely unbelievable.
newredshoes (who had seen it years ago, the NYTW version, and has now written up a great comparison post.) I have been hearing people rave about this show for the last half decade; I also made a very deliberate choice not to listen to the soundtrack beforehand, so here is what I had osmosed about the show before going in:- the plot involves Orpheus and Eurydice
- Amber Grey is Persephone is the most important and beautiful thing on the stage
- Patrick Page is Hades is also the Green Goblin from Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark and thus part of an important cultural moment in my life
- (and Orpheus is Reeve Carney who was Spiderman and thus ditto)
- 1930s? dustbowl??
And all of these things did indeed turn out to be true! (Though apparently the show is much less dustbowl-y than it used to be.)
( No one told me that the plot also involved LABOR UNIONS but to be fair I guess they're new )...so anyway that's what I got from the show! Time to go buy the soundtrack and find every gif of Amber Grey dancing, because that woman's stage presence is absolutely unbelievable.
