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Oh my scudding chasms.
So, Hadestown tonight, yes?
sorry, I’m aware this is becoming my entire personality but I only have one show left and then you guys are free.
But basically.
There’s a part in Our Lady of the Underground where Persephone is introducing the band. And our trombonist tonight was our band teacher (sometimes it’s one of my besties). He always improvs something wonderful and different. But the thing is, he got a little too excited and pulled his slider thingy ALL THE WAY OFF HIS TROMBONE. And the way our set is, he’s playing on top of a platform in the set. Well he drops part of his scudding trombone off the set, and without missing a beat he starts singing as if he’s a trombone, on beat, with his whole heart as he walks down the stairs to pick up his slider. He picks it up and starts playing, makes up whatever the rest of this solo is, then shakes Persephone’s hand and walks back to his seat amid thunderous applause.
Who is this DIVA
who is this absolute QUEEN what a man, what a darling
anyways
not our best show, but we had a few silly mistakes like that. And we started very late because the piano wasn’t working, which actually really bothered me. And after the show our Eurydice called her boyfriend and broke up with him on speaker over then phone while everyone was listening…she didn’t communicate very well and reinforced my personal opinion that she is a walking red flag. In some ways. People change, of course.
EDIT: what the sigma happened to my formatting how…??
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I love Eurydice, but my friend (who also loves her) and I described her as such: "you know that red flag factory that we were talking about [this was in reference to another friend of ours
]? Take that, triple the size, and throw some flagpoles flying giant red tarps on it. That's [Eurydice]."
love both of the red flag factories to death though
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AMAZING I love those spontaneous moments which instead of creating panic absolutely SLAY, only live theatre
WARNING NERDY RAMBLING INCOMING
On Hadestown in general: It's just absolute genius. I love (and hate, love to hate, idk its complicated) Stories where you know the ending, its tragic and inevitable but somehow hope is created in the audience anyway. When done well its absolutely heartbreaking and absolutely beautiful.
Other examples might be the star wars prequels: you know Anakin will become Darth Vader but there's hope anyway. (I think Hadestown does it so much more beautifully though)
Also, Exandria Unlimited: Calamity does this concept amazingly. The only problem is you need a lot of background information on the world and the apocalypse that was the calamity for it to be fully impactful. An issue which follows all stories of this kind, you need to know of the tragedy for the futility of your hope and the eventual heartbreak to strike true. Hadestown solves this through the introduction of the story at the beginning of the show, it of course does assume some familiarity of the audience with. the tragedy of orpheus and eurydice but does not require it.
TLDR: All this to say Hadestown is a masterpiece of storytelling in so many ways. The pure emotion of its music, the humanisation of its characters (even the inhuman ones) and of course the perfection of the weaponistation of hope.
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