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Hadestown (Theatre)

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Hadestown (Theatre)	comment	AnaÃ¯s Mitchell's Hadestown began life as a small-scale 2006-2007 theatrical production in Vermont before it was turned into a concept album in 2010. In 2016, Hadestown returned to the stage with an expanded story and revised tracklist. This version of the show premiered Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, followed by a reading at New 42nd Street Studios in 2017, a production at the Citadel Theatre in Alberta Canada in 2017, and a run at the UK's National Theatre from November 2018 to January 2019. It then transferred to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre, where it premiered on April 17, 2019. A London transfer of the Broadway version was announced in 2023.The show is a Setting Update of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a deliberately vague setting that evokes the United States sometime during the mid-20th century. The messenger god Hermes is singing an old tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, a couple who struggle to survive in a harsh world where the seasons are out of joint thanks to Hades and Persephone's deteriorating marriage. While Persephone brings summertime and fills the world with life all too briefly, Orpheus hopes to write a song to bring back spring, and promises Eurydice the world.When Orpheus is too focused on songwriting to provide, Eurydice is left to the harsh winter. Out of pragmatism, she accepts Hades' offer to come to Hadestown and work forever with food and board, learning too late it's in exchange for her life and memories. Armed only with his music and love for Eurydice, Orpheus sets off for Hadestown to get her back, and perhaps bring back spring as well. Hermes has warned the audience that it's a sad song, a tragedy, but holds out hope that maybe it'll turn out this time â€” only the Fates know for sure.The Broadway show began with the following cast:
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_11dd3268	type	Empire with a Dark Secret
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_11dd3268	comment	Empire with a Dark Secret: Hades' wall is ostensibly built to keep poverty out, but is really meant to keep his workers busy and contained inside Hadestown.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_13871049	type	Hakuna Matata
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_13871049	comment	Hakuna Matata: "Living It Up on Top" is about Persephone heralding her return and everyone enjoying the summertime and life she brings. The forgetting-your-troubles aspect is particularly resonant in the Broadway version, where Persephone puts complaints about the weather and hard times out of her mind as she tells Eurydice to take what she can get and make the most of it.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_13da01c2	type	Spring Is Late
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_13da01c2	comment	Spring Is Late: Hades picking Persephone up early and letting her go back late causes the climate to be out of whack, with increasingly long winters and no spring or fall at all. Orpheus's main goal is to write a song so beautiful it will bring back spring.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: "Hey Little Songbird" has Hades, an older, richer man in a position of power, tricking Eurydice, an impoverished, vulnerable young woman, into working for him under false pretenses. Eurydice doesn't realize just what exactly she agreed to until it's too late. "Our Lady of the Underground" reveals that Persephone built her speakeasy around a crack in the Wall that surrounds Hadestown, and charges a "pay-per-view" to let people look through it and see the sky, as though it were a peep-show from the 1930s. Apparently, Hades considers glimpses of the outside world just as obscene and dangerous to public order as Moral Guardians of the '30s saw pornography.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: Eurydice makes a living moving from town to town and leaving when it's cold. Earlier versions of the show imply everyone up top was like this to some degree, as Orpheus sings to a crowd of vagabonds who hop freight trains and pick fruit.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: Eurydice regrets leaving Orpheus and signing over her life to Hades. When Hermes tells them they have a chance to leave, she promises Orpheus that she will make it up to him. Unfortunately, she never gets the chance. Hades promises to Persephone that he'll let her go and make spring, and he'll wait for her to come in the fall. She says she'll make an honest effort to reconcile with him. Then the story ends, and Hermes restarts it again before they can properly reconcile, though spring does come again.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: Hades, portrayed by Patrick Page in the Broadway version, has an extremely low and gritty bass voice. The first time the audience hears it is when he's bringing Persephone back to Hadestown: "I missed ya."
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_17a549ab	type	Sung-Through Musical
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_17a549ab	comment	Sung-Through Musical: Almost all of the musical is sung through, and all spoken lines are written in verse, rhyme, and meter.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_17d9043d	type	Read the Fine Print
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_17d9043d	comment	Read the Fine Print: Eurydice signed papers in Hades's office without reading them. The Fates inform her that she signed her life away and now has to work on the wall.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: At the very last second, Orpheus looks back, trapping Eurydice in Hadestown forever. The last thing the lovers ever say to each other are heartbroken whispers of each other's names.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Persephone's mother is repeatedly mentioned (though not by name) throughout the show as part of Hades and Persephone's past, but does not appear. It is implied that she's no longer around due to some past calamity.note In the myths, Persephone's mother Demeter, the goddess of the harvest, cursed the earth with barrenness after Hades abducted her daughter, and Zeus's intervention led to the six-month deal mentioned in the opening.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Hermes doesn't literally have feathers on his feet, but the shoes he wears are wingtips.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1c21e3fb	comment	The Place: The title, "Hadestown", refers to the titular town Eurydice becomes trapped in.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: Hades wears a nice pair of sunglasses while above ground both to protect his eyes from the harsh light and to act as The Casanova when seducing Eurydice.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Persephone takes a moment during "Our Lady of the Underground" to introduce the band to the audience. Prior to this, the last line of Act One is her turning to the audience, asking, "Anybody want a drink?"
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Eurydice's lamentation over signing her life away in "Flowers" includes metaphors referencing literal death, metaphorical working death, sex, drugs, and sleep, and the situation is ambiguous enough that all or none of them could be true.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_1fc8335e	comment	In a heroic example, Orpheus to Hades in "Epic III", especially played up in the Broadway version. It's in an attempt to persuade Hades to let Orpheus bring Eurydice back to the surface by comparing the two of them to Hades and Persephone. Hades is actually moved enough by it to let him try, though not without one condition.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_200fbcd8	type	Snicket Warning Label
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_200fbcd8	comment	Snicket Warning Label: In the first song, "Road to Hell", Hermes outright warns the audience that they're about to watch a sad tragedy.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Things are bad above ground, where poverty and starvation are always barely an inch away. Hadestown is even worse, where workers toil without rest to build an endless wall and other projects that Persephone can't stand, but Hades demands they keep working.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_22854489	type	Coins for the Dead
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_22854489	comment	One sly reference to the original Greek myths is the "ticket" Hades offers to Eurydice comes in the form of two identical coins or tokens, a reference to the oboloi that were placed over the eyes or in the mouth of corpses in Greek tradition so they could pay the ferryman's toll to enter Hades.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Hadestown was, from the start, a more fleshed-out version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, with additional anti-capitalist themes. The concept album was a revision/adaptation of a small-scale stage musical (also by Anais Mitchell) that had two runs in Vermont, which was a very abstract, sparse experience with relatively little in the way of explicit story â€” it was after the release of the album that Mitchell began to flesh out the story with more songs ("Road to Hell" and "Chant" and their reprises most notably) to make the setting and the nature of events much clearer. One of the biggest changes made to the production when it came to London and Broadway was the idea of the seasons being thrown out of whack by Hades and Persephone's deteriorating marriage and Orpheus' quest to write a song to bring back spring, which was present to an extent in the NYTW and Edmonton versions but not made as clear or as important.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_23dcc97f	type	Circling Monologue
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_23dcc97f	comment	Circling Monologue: In the Broadway (and tour) staging, Hades' rant to Orpheus in "Chant (Reprise)" becomes several layers of this. Hades circles menacingly around Orpheus, who's circling in the opposite direction around Eurydice and the workers as, one by one, with each Armor-Piercing Question in their chorus, they break formation to join Orpheus. Meanwhile, Persephone circles Hades, and they even reach out toward each other, almost touching hands before tearing away from each other in opposite directions.note This is a Call-Back to the staging in "Chant," where they break away from each other on the line "The gods have forgotten the song of their love."
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When Orpheus drops in uninvited to save Eurydice, Hades shows him what happens to trespassers and has his workers beat him until he can barely stand.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: As Hermes says, "Don't ask where, brother, don't ask when." It's not just that this is a Setting Update of an ancient Greek myth to the 20th-century United States; the creators have been very open that despite the show being billed as a "Depression-era" show, the setting freely borrows aesthetics from both earlier and later decades. The band's costumes are all from different time periods, and the newspaper Orpheus folds into a flower is an 80s-era flyer for an Aretha Franklin act at Tipitina's.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: One sly reference to the original Greek myths is the "ticket" Hades offers to Eurydice comes in the form of two identical coins or tokens, a reference to the oboloi that were placed over the eyes or in the mouth of corpses in Greek tradition so they could pay the ferryman's toll to enter Hades. Persephone generically addresses members of the Chorus as "brother" through the show, but it does hit a little differently when she directly calls Hermes "brother", both times asking him to pass around the wine (in "Livin' It Up on Top" and "We Raise Our Cups"). After all, in the myth they were half-siblings. Persephone personifying the Moon as a woman and, specifically, as a pornographic pinup model â€” comparing letting people see the night sky through the crack in the Wall to a pay-per-view peep-show â€” is extra resonant if you know the myth of Artemis and Actaeon, and how voyeuristically looking at the Goddess of the Moon nude was an extra taboo act in ancient Greek myth.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_2847a9f9	type	Mother Nature, Father Science
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_2847a9f9	comment	Mother Nature, Father Science: Persephone's springtime powers, love for humanity, and emotion are contrasted with her husband Hades's technology, industrialization, and coldness.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_2924b198	type	Quarreling Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_2924b198	comment	Quarreling Song: "How Long", in which Hades and Persephone argue over whether to let Orpheus go with Eurydice or leave them both trapped in Hadestown, along with their marital problems.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: The Broadway and touring set includes a drinks menu on the wall that can't be seen clearly from the theater seats. The full menu is "Four Seasons Green Shot", "Bottomless Road to Hell", "Lovers' Desire", "God's Honest Truth", "Snake Bite", "Aphrodite's Dilemma", "Cerberus' Triple Snap", "Demeter's Fury", "Evelyn's Double Punch", and "Abita Amber". The latter two are references to the double-headed microphone, nicknamed Evelyn, and New Orleans, respectively.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_2cfee88	type	Everybody Hates Hades
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_2cfee88	comment	Everybody Hates Hades: Hades is the king of the Underworld, and acts as the antagonist for much of the play. In classical mythology the Underworld was where everyone was supposed to go when they died, and it wasn't really a terrible place unless you'd been absolutely awful or thoroughly annoyed the gods while you were alive, but here it's a Nightmarish Factory and an affront to the natural order. At the same time, though, it's not taken to the same extent as other portrayals of Hades, as he genuinely loves his wife even if it's misguided and agrees to give Orpheus a fair chance to leave when he proves his worth.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_2ec87029	type	Sadly Mythtaken
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_2ec87029	comment	Sadly Mythtaken: The musical takes several liberties with Greek mythology, though most of these are intentional in order to put a new spin on the original stories.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_30e6200f	type	Missing Steps Plan
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_30e6200f	comment	Missing Steps Plan: Orpheus's plan to bring back spring lacks a concrete idea of how besides writing a song.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: When she returns to bring back summer, Persephone sees the way Orpheus and Eurydice look at each other and gives them a happy, knowing smile. The young lovers remind Persephone of the love she and Hades once shared. "How Long?" has Persephone pleading with Hades to let Orpheus go, as he's nothing more than a boy in love with a girl.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: The three Fates (female) sing the roles of the three Magi (traditionally male) in "Song of the Magi". "Winter Song", originally sung by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson, is rendered as a male/female duet here. Being sung by the actors who play Starcrossed Lovers Orpheus and Eurydice emphasizes the Distant Duet aspect of the original.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_39f43252	type	Villainous Lament
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_39f43252	comment	Villainous Lament: "How Long", in which a surprisingly vulnerable Hades shows bitter regret not for his villainous deeds, but for the dysfunctional nature of his marriage. What's tragic is that both Hades and Persephone seem to truly love each other even as that damaged love pains and tortures them.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3a6a7b0a	type	Starving Artist
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3a6a7b0a	comment	Starving Artist: Orpheus is a musician living through an economic depression. As early as "Wedding Song", Eurydice expresses concern that he can properly provide for them. Lampshaded in "Hey Little Songbird".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Orpheus starts the play refusing to take Hermes' sensible advice. He then becomes more thoughtful and introspective when Eurydice goes missing, and follows the god's directions on how to get to his wife and Hadestown. However, he loses his innocence and faith not only in himself, but in people's good intentions, asking in "If It's True" whether this is how the world is after getting beat up by the workers and learning that Eurydice had chosen to leave him. This leads directly to the doubts in her and in himself that ultimately cause him to turn back on the trek to the overworld, trapping Eurydice in Hadestown forever. Eurydice develops in the opposite direction: at first cynical and unwilling to rely on anyone but herself, or to settle down in any one place, she comes to develop complete faith in Orpheus to lead her out of Hadestown and trusts that they can build a life together. Tragically, that faith turns out to be misplaced.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Assuming you're at all familiar with Greek mythology, you can pretty much guess how this one ends â€” Orpheus fails to bring Eurydice back the surface, and they never see each other again. In the opening song, "Road to Hell", Hermes outright tells the audience that the story they're about to watch is "a sad tale, it's a tragedy".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3bdf690b	type	Curtain Call
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3bdf690b	comment	Curtain Call: This show is unusual in that, technically, "Road to Hell (Reprise)" is the last song in the show proper, and the song "We Raise Our Cups" is sung after the curtain call, with the implication that the actors are now out of character and singing about Orpheus the mythic figure.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3be6d35	type	Rescued from the Underworld
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3be6d35	comment	Rescued from the Underworld: The story is based on the myth of Orpheus, though in this case, Eurydice isn't literally dead, but instead trapped in an underground city as a worker.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Eurydice and Orpheus both have elements of this at the start. "Epic III" and "How Long?" imply that Persephone used to be this, too.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3f28ec84	type	The Wall Around the World
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3f28ec84	comment	The Wall Around the World: "Why We Build the Wall" details the workers building a wall around Hadestown, ostensibly to keep poverty out but really to keep them and Persephone in.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the concept album and original cast recording, Hades plots to let Orpheus and Eurydice think they've won by letting them go, only to set them up to fail as a means of keeping his workers in line. In the Broadway version, while still politically motivated, his chance is fair without any underhandedness and he honestly doesn't know if they'll make it or not. It's further driven home by Hermes, who explicitly states that it's not a trick, but a test, so it's all up to Orpheus. The concept album and NYTW recording had the Fates outright lie about what Hadestown was like and mock Eurydice for believing their promises of paradise, while in the Broadway version, they tell half-truths and don't engage in gloating, just facts about what will happen now that she's signed the deal. The new notes for the Broadway version say that the Fates are not bullies; they just tell it like it is.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Hades, who never commits direct violence against Eurydice but instead lures her to Hadestown and away from her husband through seduction and preying on her fear of having to provide for both herself and Orpheus. Even when he's persuaded to give Orpheus and Eurydice a chance to be together again, he manages to come up with a deal that seems fair and which Orpheus will agree to, but still ends with Hades getting exactly what he wants.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_40cad744	comment	A red bloom is a consistent Flower Motif throughout the show, symbolizing lost springtime.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Hadestown is a hellish Company Town where the wage is nothing and the work is backbreaking, all set under sweltering heat and neon lights.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Aside from the Downer Ending for Orpheus and Eurydice, Hades and Persephone are at a better place in their relationship than before, ending the deadly storm plaguing the surrounding land. Also, it's implied Hades will let Persephone return to the Earth much earlier than he previously did.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4170e68d	type	Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4170e68d	comment	Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number: "Way Down Hadestown" and "Chant" are sung by the entire cast and feature a lot of dancing and storytelling.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_43c4002a	type	Call-and-Response Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_43c4002a	comment	Call-and-Response Song: "Why We Build The Wall" has Hades asking the workers why they build the wall and what it's built to keep out, which they respond to and add onto the song.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_47a0a3b7	type	Adaptational Consent
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_47a0a3b7	comment	Adaptational Consent: Hades and Persephone's relationship and marriage in the show was consensual from the start, unlike in the original myths where it was initially based on abduction. Indeed, in the NYTW version, Persephone sings to Eurydice that she was entranced by this mysterious man and followed him to the Underground, much in the same way that Orpheus came underground to rescue Eurydice. Hades' seduction of Eurydice is either extremely one-sided, or with Eurydice slowly giving in out of her own will.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: A rare theatrical version: the final song, "We Raise Our Cups," happens after the curtain call.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_493ff3c0	type	Cabin Fever
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_493ff3c0	comment	Cabin Fever: Mentioned by name in "Our Lady of the Underground" as one of the many complaints the workers have.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the theatrical version, Hermes warns Orpheus and Eurydice that their trust in each other is about to be tested in front of â€œgods and menâ€�, and points to the audience when he says men.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Eurydice has spent all her life fighting to survive and look out for herself. Her outlook on the world is bitter and blunt, but once she falls in love with Orpheus, he gives her a new hope. Then winter comes again, and desperate not to starve to death, Eurydice accepts Hades' offer to go down to Hadestown in return for never being hungry or cold again. "Flowers" is Eurydice's solo about how hopeless her situation is. Orpheus is a Wide-Eyed Idealist from the beginning of the story. His ability to make one see the way that the world can be is described as a "gift." Even when he finds out that Eurydice has been taken to Hadestown, he wastes no time in pursuing her â€” believing that she was taken against her will, and determined to save her. Hades brutally informs him that Eurydice came of her own free will before siccing his workers on Orpheus, beating him to a pulp. This, as well as learning that Eurydice left him willingly, causes Orpheus to lament that this may be the way the world really is ("If It's True"). The workers rallying around him gives him enough confidence to lead the riot back to Hades, but unfortunately, he doesn't recover from it. Having his entire worldview shattered causes Orpheus to doubt that Hades would let him and Eurydice go, or that she would even follow him â€” he turns around to look and make sure, condemning her to Hadestown for eternity.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4b39a18	type	Hope Springs Eternal
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4b39a18	comment	Hope Springs Eternal: This ends up being the core theme of the show â€” Orpheus' song contains the power of hope that destabilizes Hadestown, restores the workers' individuality, and can bring back spring, and as tragic as the ending of his story is, Hermes can't help replaying it again and again "as though it might turn out this time".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Right at the last second, Orpheus turns back to look at Eurydice, damning her to Hadestown for all eternity. Hermes tells the audience that despite it being "a sad tale, a tragedy," they will sing it again and again: because the fact that they do, as if it will be better the next time around, is proof that they all long for what the world could be, despite the way that it is. The musical ends as the story starts anew.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Orpheus turning back. Eurydice gasps, the music cuts, the lights are turned on, and everybody stays frozen in dead silence as she's dragged down back to Hadestown for good and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The Vermont shows were far more abstract, darker in tone, and much shorter. Early stuff included the song "Everything Written" about fate and the stars, Hermes as a direct minion of Hades who tried to tempt Orpheus away, and Cerberus as the head of security in Hadestown, all of which was changed for the album and later performances.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_512b00e0	type	BSoD Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_512b00e0	comment	BSoD Song: "Flowers (Eurydice's Song)" for Eurydice. She's finally free of hunger, but now she'll spend the rest of her existence working herself to an empty husk â€” already forgetting her own name. "If It's True" and "Doubt Comes In" for Orpheus. In the former, he's just found out that the woman he loves willingly left him, and his plan to bring her back home ended with him being beaten to a pulp by the workers. Now his idealist outlook on life has been destroyed. In the latter, even after he convinces Hades to give them a chance and Eurydice enthusiastically tells him to "take her home," the whole experience has done too much damage to him. He's in doubt that Hades isn't playing some horrible trick on him, and that Eurydice is even behind him at all. "His Kiss, The Riot" for Hades. Even after Orpheus' song has moved him and brought him and Persephone together again, he's now at a difficult decision to make. If he lets Eurydice go, then his workers will see him as weak and overpower him. If he doesn't, then his workers will see him as heartless and riot. It's the most distressed the audience ever sees him in the play.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_52f2c74c	type	Mating Dance
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_52f2c74c	comment	Mating Dance: During the instrumental break in "All I've Ever Known", Orpheus and Eurydice have a rather... suggestive ballet dance that ends with Eurydice on top of Orpheus before they lay on the floor to stargaze.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: "Road to Hell" and "Road to Hell (Reprise)". In the former, Hermes introduces the audience to all the characters of the story â€” which, he says, is "a sad song, a tragedy," but "maybe it will turn out this time." It doesn't. The song will still be sung again and again, because doing so despite knowing how it ends proves that there is still hope for the world that can be â€” just like Orpheus wanted. The story ends with all the characters resuming their places at the start of the story.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_533d53a0	type	Fantasy Americana
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_533d53a0	comment	Fantasy Americana: The show takes the Greek tragedy of Orpheus and transplants the characters and mythology into a post-apocalyptic setting based on 1930s America, where the underworld is a factory and the way to there is an old railroad track.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Hades is impressed when he orders his workers to beat up Orpheus, and the boy in response sings a songs that encourages a riot. He later says the boy is either brave or stupid.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_549a92e7	type	Minimalism
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_549a92e7	comment	Minimalism: The present action is very much the focus. The past of the characters is brief and relatively unimportant aside from Hades and Persephone, and the world's backstory and setting is largely relegated to behind-the-scenes notes, interviews, and fanon.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_55edb17e	type	Irrelevant Act Opener
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_55edb17e	comment	Irrelevant Act Opener: Zigzagged with "Our Lady of the Underground." While it doesn't advance the plot of the show and mainly acts as a musical palate cleanser, the context of Persephone sneakily serving contraband to Hades' workers gives more insight into Hadestown, the Workers, and Persephone herself.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Orpheus in the Broadway staging is a Wide-Eyed Idealist and naive Manchild; he normally gets through life by focusing on his music. Then Hades orders his workers to physically stop Orpheus from rescuing Eurydice. After he spends a song in Heroic BSoD, Orpheus gets back up and sings again, empowering the workers to riot. The staging makes it clear he knows what he's doing.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Eurydice in "Wedding Song", voicing her concerns for Orpheus's monetary situation, and in "Chant", when she's the one who cares about their dwindling stores of food and firewood. Subverted thereafter, as Eurydice's concerns and her overall innocence lead to her seduction and subsequent imprisonment by Hades.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: The theatrical version of the story links the setting's climate imbalance to Hades' actions â€” specifically, his selfishness, industrialization of the Underworld, and reliance on fossil fuels plays a part in the breakdown of his marriage to Persephone, who despises it all.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_59d9cfbd	type	Let's Duet
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_59d9cfbd	comment	Let's Duet: Many of the songs â€” "Wedding Song" (Orpheus and Eurydice), "Hey Little Songbird" (Hades and Eurydice), "Wait For Me" (Hermes and Orpheus), "How Long" (Persephone and Hades), "Doubt Comes In" (Orpheus and Eurydice), and "I Raise My Cup To Him" (Persephone and Eurydice).
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God: Hades gets the common conflation with Satan, being the ruler of a Nightmarish Factory that gets compared to Hell and a broker of unfair deals. Meanwhile, the two other gods Hermes and Persephone are powerless to stop him, while Zeus is nowhere to be seen, coming off as this trope.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: "Epic III" is the iteration of Orpheus' song in which he finally finishes it and succeeds in touching Hades' heart. "Wait for Me"'s first appearance is Hermes describing how long and hard the road to Hadestown is, and serves to hammer in how much of a long shot Orpheus' mission is. "Wait For Me (Reprise)" is a hopeful melody as the people of Hadestown (including its two rulers) watch Orpheus and Eurydice's ascent, with a brighter sound to emphasize how much more hopeful the scenario is. Although "Road to Hell (Reprise)" starts as a Dark Reprise of "Road to Hell", it metamorphoses into a Triumphant Reprise in its second half, with Hermes proudly and defiantly shouting that even though Orpheus failed at the end, his dream of a better world lives on.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_5e7163c9	comment	Alternative Character Interpretation: Invoked by Hermes and the Fates as they narrate: Instead of being a faithful husband and son of the muse Calliope that loses his wife in a tragic accident, Orpheus is portrayed as a hopeless dreamer that uses music to beat their Perpetual Poverty. His music is his greatest strength, as we see when he tries to reason with Hades, but he often forgets practicalities like food and firewood, despite his love for Eurydice. Eurydice is shown to want a better life and chooses to go for it when Hades tempts her. In most versions of her story, she dies due to a wayward snake biting her and some bad luck. The Fates ask us if we should judge her. Hades in Greek mythology was relatively the most faithful god in his marriage. Here, he preys on vulnerable people to recruit them to work in Hadestown. Then there's Persephone. It's unclear if Hades in the Broadway version kidnapped her or if she married him of her own volition and isn't bound by any deal; the off-Broadway production confirmed the latter, that Persephone followed him into the Underworld. They did really love each other once, but she seems not to have a choice about going back to Hadestown. In any case, Hades complains about her staying away too long and says that he misses her. Then there is Hermes. In Greek mythology, he's a messenger of the gods, not a bard, and is noted for being a god of tricksters and thieves. Here, he serves as the narrator of the story, in the hopes that the cycle will break. Can we trust Hermes when he sends Orpheus to Hadestown and claims he's telling the tale to break the cycle?
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_63d861f8	comment	Hades and Persephone are a darker example where their personalities play into their fear of their deteriorating marriage: The former is a stoic but loving husband hoping to win his wife back with impressive machinery, but also a stern boss with little to no empathy for his slaves who he tricked into working for him, while the latter is a benevolent, outgoing party girl who laments how cruel her husband has become and drowns her sorrows with alcohol while playing up her happiness to others.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: At the end of "Doubt Comes In," there is a painfully long note when Orpheus looks back at Eurydice too early, breaking his Deal with the Devil.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_659468c1	type	Christmas Songs
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_659468c1	comment	Christmas Songs: An album of Christmas song covers.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_65c0f3fa	type	Dance of Romance
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_65c0f3fa	comment	Dance of Romance: Hades and Persephone's marriage is on the rocks, but Orpheus's song in "Epic III" moves them so much that they begin dancing like newlyweds.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_66907f54	type	Hourglass Plot
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_66907f54	comment	Hourglass Plot: Orpheus and Eurydice swap viewpoints by the end of the show, as the formerly idealistic Orpheus grows more cynical from learning Eurydice went to Hadestown willingly and is beat up for his efforts, while the formerly cynical Eurydice grows more optimistic after seeing all Orpheus goes through to rescue her.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_67711aa	type	Company Town
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_67711aa	comment	Company Town: The realm of Hades is reimagined as one of these â€” Hadestown is a city where everyone is guaranteed a job, but that job is working in Hades' mines, factories, or the endless construction site of the Wall. Hades is everyone's boss, and the only place to spend any money or have any fun is Persephone's "Our Lady of the Underground" speakeasy. The song "Way Down Hadestown" suggests the whole world of the play is the Company Town of Hadestown, with the "Up Above" world outside of it just the unemployed drifters on the outskirts of it. Specifically, the Fates point out that all of the money in the world â€” "every little penny in the wishing well, every nickel on the drum" â€” originates from Hadestown one way or another.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_6c51e9e1	type	Fisher King
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_6c51e9e1	comment	Fisher King: Hades and Persephone's deteriorating marriage is responsible for the inclement weather plaguing the world, with their argument in "Chant" causing an increasingly bitter storm up top that Eurydice becomes caught in.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_6de890e	type	Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_6de890e	comment	Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains: Orpheus and Eurydice wear worn, very lived-in casual clothes, while Hades wears an expensive leather coat and pinstripe suits.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: "Road To Hell (Reprise)" sees the entire story start over, with Eurydice and Orpheus returning to exactly where they were at the start of the show, ready for the tragedy to begin again. In earlier versions, Hermes also laments that Hades and Persephone have the same argument every year.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: As Hermes says, the ending never changes, no matter how many times you sing the song. He still tries, though; he tells Orpheus to not neglect Eurydice, warns Eurydice what Hadestown is like, tries to convince Orpheus to give up Eurydice when she vanishes, and when Orpheus is set on finding her, he tells him how to get there safely and gives advice on the road out.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor: Defied, as Hades initially threatens to kill Orpheus after he sings "one more song" for him. Once Orpheus actually sings it and moves Hades' heart, Hades realizes that killing him will make him a martyr to his workers, while letting him go will make them agitate for freedom, so he arranges the famous test.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In mythology, Hades and Persephone have a fairly stable marriage, while in Hadestown, their marriage is on the rocks and has been for some time. By the end, they're both working on trying again.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7506ec90	type	Fashionable Asymmetry
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7506ec90	comment	Fashionable Asymmetry: In the Broadway version, Persephone's summer gown has extravagant puffy shoulders that are hand-sewn and asymmetrical. The Fates' gowns are also asymmetrical and subtly mismatched with each other.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7738b710	type	Crisis Makes Perfect
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7738b710	comment	Crisis Makes Perfect: Orpheus tries working on the song that will reconcile Hades and Persephone for much of the musical. He gets so in the zone that Hades manages to convince Eurydice to come to Hadestown when Orpheus is busy composing. When does Orpheus finally get it right? When Hades is threatening to kill him after he sings "one more song".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_77a19ddf	type	Strange Salute
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_77a19ddf	comment	Strange Salute: At the end of "Why We Build the Wall," the Workers, Fates, and Eurydice raise their right index fingers high in salute to Hades and the wall.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_77b009ea	type	Phrase Catcher
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_77b009ea	comment	Phrase Catcher: Orpheus and Eurydice both catch one from Hermes: "Orpheus was a poor boy," and "Eurydice was a hungry young girl."
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Orpheus delivers one to Hades during "Epic III":
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: Right from the outset, the first sung lines are "Once upon a time, there was a railroad line / Don't ask where, brother, don't ask when", which Mitchell indicates in her annotated lyrics, and calls it "liberating to just have Hermes say: 'Don't ask!'" It's overall implied to be set in the United States during the Great Depression, but it's intentionally kept vague and laden with Anachronism Stews as befitting a myth like this.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_801a35a5	type	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_801a35a5	comment	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending: Inverted; of all the people in the place, Orpheus and Eurydice end up in the worst position by the end of the play, as they're separated forever while Hades and Persephone are on the mend and spring returns to the world above, as well as an implication Hadestown itself will improve.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_812dd60	type	Costume Evolution
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_812dd60	comment	Costume Evolution: During development, the characters' costumes changed for each production, with most designs being finalized around the National Theater production in London. Orpheus and Eurydice's outfits would change again for the finalized Broadway release.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Hades chews the scenery during "Chant II" as he revels in his power, threatens to kill Orpheus, and regains control of his workers. Persephone in "Our Lady of the Underground" as she shows off her contraband wares in defiance of Hades.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_83445b04	comment	Even prior to meeting Hades, Orpheus clearly is able to identify with him in writing "Epic II." The song points out how unfair it is that while his wife is allowed to leave and see exciting new places and meet new people, Hades is left alone in the dark to stew on his loneliness and hope she comes back. This is the first time anyone in the story is willing to play devil's advocate; Orpheus understands what it's like to fall in love with someone you think is too good for you, and be driven to succeed at your job to compensate and pray they don't want more.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_85fc8aa3	type	Reset Button Ending
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_85fc8aa3	comment	Reset Button Ending: The show proper ends with the tale resetting to the beginning as Hermes prepares to tell the story again in hopes of a better ending, with the only difference being spring arrives instead of summer.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_864aa9	type	Hellevator
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_864aa9	comment	Hellevator: The descent to the underworld is done via a platform in the middle of the stage lowering and rising, with the touring production having an elevator-like door onstage instead.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Hades in "Chant (Reprise)".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_89c664ac	type	Villainous Advice Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_89c664ac	comment	Villainous Advice Song: In "Chant Reprise", Hades gives Orpheus advice as to how to make a woman stay with you, advising such things as "hang a chain around her throat", or "shackle her from wrist to wrist".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8acbc572	type	Fire and Brimstone Hell
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8acbc572	comment	Fire and Brimstone Hell: Hades has renovated the Underworld into a nightmarish factory full of unnatural light and heat where his workers toil endlessly, which greatly displeases Persephone since it isn't supposed to be that way.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	comment	Capitalism Is Bad: Persephone doesn't look kindly on Hades' industrial empire. Not only does the by-product pollution of his furnaces and factories mess with the delicate balance of nature, but Hades treats his workers like slaves; the work is hard and long and the pay is nothing, and when they inevitably work themselves to death? Well, Hades can always find more.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Hermes introduces the cast to the audience, sets up the story, and tells Orpheus how to get to Hadestown.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8d0461e2	type	Destructive Romance
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8d0461e2	comment	Destructive Romance: Hades and Persephone, touched upon in "How Long". Despite how much they hurt each other just by being near, they still love each other too much to give up on their relationship.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8d4799d1	type	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8d4799d1	comment	Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Hades and Persephone are a darker example where their personalities play into their fear of their deteriorating marriage: The former is a stoic but loving husband hoping to win his wife back with impressive machinery, but also a stern boss with little to no empathy for his slaves who he tricked into working for him, while the latter is a benevolent, outgoing party girl who laments how cruel her husband has become and drowns her sorrows with alcohol while playing up her happiness to others. Inverted with the excitable, idealistic Orpheus and the more cynical, pragmatic Eurydice.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: There's Eurydice, Orpheus, Persephone, Hades, Hermes, and the Fates, plus unnamed workers.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8e81efd1	type	Tenor Boy
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8e81efd1	comment	Tenor Boy: Orpheus is the young and tragic romantic lead. Contrast with Basso Profundo villain Hades.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_921cdca8	comment	Hades does give Orpheus a sporting chance to get his wife back and nullify the contract, since Orpheus's song did reconcile him and Persephone. It's Nothing Personal that he can't look weak in front of his workers, and it's implied he is rooting for Orpheus to actually make it to the surface.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: As expressed in "Word to the Wise", if Hades just lets Eurydice go with Orpheus, he looks weak; refusing, however, makes Orpheus a martyr. But, the Fates advise, if he appears to offer mercy while setting Orpheus up to fail, he avoids both traps.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_9593d256	type	Gender-Inclusive Writing
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_9593d256	comment	Gender-Inclusive Writing: The West End production removed all references to Hermes' gender, with Orpheus's "Mister/Missus Hermes" being replaced with "Excuse me, Hermes" in "Wait for Me."
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Hades, the ruler of Hadestown. The story is based around him luring Eurydice down to Hadestown and Orpheus struggling to rescue her.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: In a heroic example, Orpheus to Hades in "Epic III", especially played up in the Broadway version. It's in an attempt to persuade Hades to let Orpheus bring Eurydice back to the surface by comparing the two of them to Hades and Persephone. Hades is actually moved enough by it to let him try, though not without one condition. Hades, about Orpheus, from "His Kiss, The Riot," though he is recognizing the similarity to Orpheus in himself rather than persuading Orpheus of their similarities. This similarity is how he comes up with the test of character at the end. In the original version of "Chant II," Persephone tells Eurydice that, like her, she fell in love with a man and followed him into the dark. She says that Orpheus's song reminds her how Hadestown and their marriage used to be. Even prior to meeting Hades, Orpheus clearly is able to identify with him in writing "Epic II." The song points out how unfair it is that while his wife is allowed to leave and see exciting new places and meet new people, Hades is left alone in the dark to stew on his loneliness and hope she comes back. This is the first time anyone in the story is willing to play devil's advocate; Orpheus understands what it's like to fall in love with someone you think is too good for you, and be driven to succeed at your job to compensate and pray they don't want more.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_9de3695d	type	Alto Villainess
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_9de3695d	comment	Alto Villainess: The Fates sing in three-part harmony in a lower register than either Eurydice or Persephone. They're also decidedly morally grey, at best.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The "la la la la la la la" melody is a recurring theme throughout the show as a song of love.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: Zigzagged. Eurydice actively chooses to go with Hades rather than simply dying of an accidental snakebite, and Persephone is actively arguing with Hades and undermining his rule rather than only being moved to intervene on Orpheus' behalf at the moment he sings. However, Eurydice remains a helpless victim of Hades' power who has to trust entirely in Orpheus to save her, and no one questions the fact that Persephone cannot actually overthrow Hades as Top God or change his rules herself â€” all she can do is try to persuade him to be merciful and reconcile to bring back spring.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The workers have this reaction when they realize they beat up an innocent man on Hades's orders and ask, "Why do we turn away when our brother is bleeding?" in response to a battered Orpheus's song.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a737743c	type	Caged Bird Metaphor
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a737743c	comment	Eurydice is repeatedly compared to a songbird, first as an inspiration to Orpheus' own musical talents, his muse. After being seduced by Hades, she's compared to a canary kept in a mine and a caged bird that can no longer fly just as Eurydice can no longer return to the surface.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Orpheus is so blown away by Eurydice from the moment he sees her, he asks her to marry him before even introducing himself, then blows her away in return by singing for her with his literal divine voice.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a89b8f21	type	Musical Chores
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a89b8f21	comment	Musical Chores: "Chant" and its reprise are structured around the workers of Hadestown singing a dreary work song ("Oh, you gotta keep your head, keep your head low...") while the main characters sing verses over them. Notably, this makes "Chant" a Dark Reprise of "Wedding Song", which depicts a carefree bucolic paradise.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: "Epic I" tells of how Hades fell in love with Persephone the moment he saw her in Demeter's garden. "Come Home With Me", where Orpheus declares to Eurydice that he's the man who's going to marry her before he's even told her his name.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: In "Chant," Orpheus sings of Hades being deafened by his focus on his work while Persephone blinds herself with wineâ€¦ all while he can't hear Eurydice and Hermes calling for him and can't see the growing storm above. This also applies to the NYTW version of the song, where Orpheus sang of a love gone wrong while Eurydice grew increasingly angry at him prioritizing singing over providing for them.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_abdc0b3f	type	Held Gaze
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_abdc0b3f	comment	Held Gaze: "Way Down Hadestown" is blocked so that after Eurydice sings "kinda makes you wonder how it feels" (in reference to Hades seemingly owning everything), the music stops as Hades turns to her and pulls down his sunglasses to look in her eyes. Eurydice stares back until Hermes starts the song up again with "all aboard!"
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_accd97de	type	Actionized Adaptation
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_accd97de	comment	Actionized Adaptation: A mild example compared to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where Orpheus entered and left the Underworld without much issue aside from the whole turning-back thing. In Hadestown, it's a long, dangerous trek there, and he's already battered before Hades has his workers beat him up and attempt to force him out, with an extended dance sequence much like an abstract action/chase scene. Hades additionally threatens to kill him once he's done singing, though he doesn't follow through.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The moment Orpheus turns around too early and dooms Eurydice, both he and Eurydice's faces go from hopeful glee to terrified regret.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_aec3d8b2	type	Expository Theme Tune
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_aec3d8b2	comment	Expository Theme Tune: "Road to Hell" is a very old-fashioned song where Hermes and the Chorus go through the cast and introduce the setting of the show and the characters one by one with No Fourth Wall. Mitchell said she intended the opening of the show to evoke both the idea of Hermes as an informal storyteller and to pay homage to ancient Greek epics, which would typically begin with an enumeration of the gods and heroes who appear in the narrative (and giving each of the gods mentioned their due praise to avoid their wrath).
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Eurydice gives up her life to go to Hadestown, thinking it's a place of rest and comfort, and learns she sold her soul to perform eternal hard labor. Orpheus risks just as much to travel to Hadestown and rescue her; after many trials, they get a chance to leave safely and together... but after so much doubt has been put into his mind, Orpheus turns to look back at the last second. Eurydice is doomed to Hadestown forever, and Orpheus is left to walk the Earth, forever carrying the guilt of it. Unless they get it right next time.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is moved from the mythical interpretation of Mycenaean Greece to a world largely informed by the United States during The Great Depression.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: In "Hey Little Songbird", Hades tempts Eurydice into leaving the man she loves in favor of a safe, comfortable life. She agrees and eventually comes to regret it. The Fates converse about it in "Gone, I'm Gone", asserting that Eurydice shouldn't be judged for her choice since most people would've done the same if they'd been in her position.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_affc0c98	type	Significant Wardrobe Shift
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_affc0c98	comment	Significant Wardrobe Shift: Persephone switches outfits at the end of Act 1 from spring green to underworld black as part of going home to Hadestown, while for Act 2, Eurydice wears a worker outfit since she signed Hades' contract. Hades himself ditches his leather coat and sunglasses for a more open three-piece waistcoat as the audience starts to know him more.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: A majority of the fight scene in "Papers" is timed to the music, particularly the drumbeats towards the end coinciding with the workers punching and kicking Orpheus.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Eurydice wanted to "lie down forever" in "Hey Little Songbird," and Hades takes her to his Underworld to die.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: For both leads. Eurydice will be worked to a state that should cause death, while supernaturally being kept alive so she can keep working; all the while, she will slowly be worn down by the harsh working conditions and implied magic to slowly forget who she is, and lose all sense of identity beyond her place as Hades' eternal slave. Orpheus is forced to walk the Earth without his true love, all the while being plagued with the knowledge that he's responsible for his love's fate and can't go back to retrieve her.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b2595417	type	Nightmarish Factory
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b2595417	comment	Nightmarish Factory: The Underworld is reimagined as a mining town where the dead slowly lose all sense of self and memory as they toil endlessly in the factories and mines while building an endless wall for Hades. The set is designed to resemble a massive, rusty oil drum that everyone is trapped in.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b48396cc	type	Colorblind Casting
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b48396cc	comment	Colorblind Casting: In keeping with the show's mythical 'any time, any place' setting, all the characters are listed as "Any ethnicity" on the casting call. Hermes and the Fates have also been played by both men and women.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: Hades has Orpheus beaten in "Papers" to show what becomes of trespassers in Hadestown.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b504613c	type	Don't Look Back
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b504613c	comment	Don't Look Back: Hades' test to Orpheus is to see if he can walk out of the Underworld without looking behind him to see if Eurydice is following; since Hades himself doubted Persephone's love, he's seeing just how far the similarities run. As in the myth, Orpheus looks back.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: Crossed with Breaking the Fourth Wall. "Road to Hell" begins with Hermes acknowledging this is an old and well-known myth already ("It's an old song... but we're gonna sing it again"), and "Road to Hell (Reprise)" has him tell us they'll sing it again. This is complete with the whole stage resetting to the opening of the show, with Eurydice â€” whom we just saw lost to Hadestown forever â€” reappearing as she was before the story happened, once more asking Hermes for a light; however, we know it is slightly different as Persephone arrives on time.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b6b6355f	type	Politeness Judo
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b6b6355f	comment	Politeness Judo: Orpheus uses his words and music to reason with Hades and begs for his wife's freedom. It works halfway; Hades agrees to let them go if Orpheus can pass his test.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b6caa5b4	type	Operation: Jealousy
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b6caa5b4	comment	Operation: Jealousy: It's heavily implied that Hades gets Eurydice into Hadestown to make Persephone take notice, as when she confronts him about it, he admits the girl means nothing to him.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b739f0d2	type	Finger Gun
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b739f0d2	comment	Finger Gun: Hades uses finger guns to emphasize his points in "Chant (Reprise)" as he lectures Orpheus on their shared marital struggles.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b7a18b59	type	Opening Chorus
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b7a18b59	comment	"Road to Hell (Reprise)" is one for "Road to Hell", bringing back the rousing Opening Chorus and making its title literal, showing us a heartbroken, exhausted Hermes with all the excitement he had to start telling this story wrung out of him by a tragic ending that â€” we finally learn â€” he's known was inevitable all along. But see Triumphant Reprise below.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b7bc7d28	type	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_b7bc7d28	comment	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: In "Road to Hell," Orpheus is distracted from cleaning tables by a red dishrag and uses it as musical inspiration, missing his cue from Hermes and only noticing the audience when his name's called again.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ba5436eb	type	The Great Wall
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ba5436eb	comment	The Great Wall: Hades has his Workers build an endless wall around the titular city, ostensibly to keep poverty out, but is really meant to keep his workers busy and contained inside Hadestown. The song "Why We Build the Wall" is devoted to the circular reasoning behind the project.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: While he can't save Eurydice, Orpheus ends up saving everyone else outside Hadestown when his song reconciles Hades and Persephone, ending the storm that came over the land.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bd6b86df	type	Impossible Task
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bd6b86df	comment	Impossible Task: "Wedding Song" is a straight example of this trope, although the tasks aren't so much impossible as very difficult for someone as flat broke as Orpheus is. Hades and Persephone's verses in "Chant" are an inversion, with Persephone expressing her disgust at the things Hades has already done to try to win her affection.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bda3b88e	type	Sudden Soundtrack Stop
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bda3b88e	comment	Sudden Soundtrack Stop: Eurydice's final, hopeful verse in "Doubt Comes In" swells up and up, until Orpheus turns around. Suddenly all the music stops and there's nothing but a single, discordant violin note and Orpheus and Eurydice saying their last words to each other. "Road to Hell (Reprise)" at first begins with nothing but a few tinkling piano notes as Hermes returns to the stage. After he says, "It's a sad song... and that is how it ends," the music stops entirely.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bdb0438e	type	Everything's Better with Sparkles
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bdb0438e	comment	Everything's Better with Sparkles: In the Broadway production, all the gods â€” and only the gods â€” have a bit of glitter to their costumes to indicate their divinity.note Persephone has sequins on her bodice, Hermes has silver shoes and a shiny brocade waistcoat, the Fates have sections of shiny fabric in their scarves, and Hades' suit has mylar pinstripes.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_be102b6a	type	GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_be102b6a	comment	GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung: It's heavily implied in the Broadway musical that this has occurred, given the state of the world and hints that Hades and Persephone have taken on the mantles and responsibilities associated with other gods.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bfc7d0a3	type	Climate Change Allegory
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_bfc7d0a3	comment	Climate Change Allegory: The show is implied to be set in a world suffering the effects of climate change. In "Any Way the Wind Blows", Eurydice sings that the seasons used to be stable, but now it's either "blazing hot or freezing cold". Following a massive storm, she winds up in the underground city Hadestown, which Hades has industrialized using fossil fuels in a futile attempt to appease his wife Persephone. For her part, Persephone is unhappy that Hades is forcing her to stay beneath the earth for longer than their allotted six months. Take away the rescue plot, and you have a story about overindustrialization and overconsumption causing climate imbalance, which is abetted by the end of the show after Hades and Persephone reconcile, and he allows her to spend more time aboveground.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Onstage, a steam whistle blows immediately after "Our Lady of the Underground" to signal the workers back to work, and again at the start of "Chant II" when Hades realizes Orpheus is still in Hadestown.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: A hybrid of this and No Fourth Wall â€” the show imagines itself as a low-budget improvised performance put together by traveling performers in some abandoned warehouse somewhere in the Mississippi Delta in the Great Depression (even though in Real Life it's obviously a high-budget, high-tech Broadway production). Hermes repeatedly talks straight past the fourth wall about how this is an "old song, that was written long ago" and all the current performers are doing is reenacting it, and the actors sing one final song fully out of character ("We Raise Our Cups") after the curtain falls.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Orpheus misses Hades taking away Eurydice because he's composing the song that he hopes will convince Hades and Persephone to reconcile and end the storm to the land. Then when he finally sings the song for the couple, it's to save Eurydice. Nevertheless, his song ends up reconciling them after all.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The second half of Act II is a long string of these. "Epic III" and Hades and Persephone's dance that follows lends credence to the thought that he'd let Eurydice go without a fight. When his conditions are made, Orpheus and Eurydice affirm their love and trust for one another, and even as doubt starts to set in, Eurydice's sections of "Doubt Comes In" bring hope that, even if you know how it ends, maybe this time he won't screw it up. Her final note swells triumphantlyâ€¦ before stopping cold when Orpheus looks back. Invoked by Hermes resetting the story and Eurydice walking back on stage looking for a match to light her candle. Maybeâ€¦ just maybe this time the tale will end differently.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c3d6c819	type	Counterpoint Duet
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c3d6c819	comment	Counterpoint Duet: "How Long" is between Persephone and Hades as they argue over Orpheus and Eurydice's fate; Persephone wants them free while Hades is obligated to keep them in Hadestown.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c452da2f	type	Southern Gothic
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c452da2f	comment	Southern Gothic: Hadestown is very much a tribute to this genre, turning a Depression-era mining town somewhere on the Gulf Coast into a metaphor for the classical Land of the Dead. (Similarly, the score of the musical is Anais Mitchell's own take, as a folk singer-songwriter from Vermont, on the Gothic Country Music genre.)
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c6e0455d	type	Afterlife Express
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c6e0455d	comment	Afterlife Express: This is the central conceit of the show which reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice on a Depression-era train line. Hades' train takes living souls down to Hadestown to work for eternity in exchange for security.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: Orpheus's song, even in its incomplete form, makes flowers bloom from nothing, and is so powerful it splits the wall around Hadestown open to let him in.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c973fe1d	type	If We Get Through This…
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_c973fe1d	comment	If We Get Through Thisâ€¦: Before they undergo their final trial, Orpheus promises to Eurydice that he will be there for her and become the husband she wanted, and she in turn promises to be faithful. Sadly, neither of them gets the chance because Orpheus turns around too early.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_cacf4db7	type	Theme Tune Roll Call
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_cacf4db7	comment	Theme Tune Roll Call: "Road to Hell" introduces the Fates, the gods, and men in that order. AnaÃ¯s Mitchell commented that Breaking the Fourth Wall and directly introducing all the characters â€” along with the chorus and the band â€” to the audience at the top of the show as a very old-school theatrical flourish was one of the things they stole directly from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, along with stealing Amber Gray.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ccb97ff2	type	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ccb97ff2	comment	Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: In both versions of "Wait for Me", Hermes ends each verse on a word that doesn't rhyme with the rest of the verse, and almost rhymes with the last word of the other verses. The first version has "Bottom-land", "Got 'em", and "Cotton"; the lack of rhyme is clearly deliberate with the unnecessary addition at the end of "Bottom-land". Likewise, the reprise has "Undoing" and "Ruin", which normally would rhyme in Andre de Shields' typical dialect (where he would likely say "Undoin'"), but he goes out of his way to pronounce the G in "Undoing".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d07e8fde	type	Ghost Amnesia
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d07e8fde	comment	Ghost Amnesia: A combination of the endless work in Hadestown and being in the Underworld causes shades to lose their memories and senses of selves until they're just another cog in Hades' machines.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d13e0db3	type	Heartbeat Soundtrack
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d13e0db3	comment	Heartbeat Soundtrack: "Doubt Comes In" features drums akin to a heartbeat as Orpheus makes his way back to the surface with no way of knowing if Eurydice is truly there.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d19dc823	type	The Gods Must Be Lazy
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d19dc823	comment	The Gods Must Be Lazy: Persephone, due to her alcohol habit and domestic disputes, forgets about spring and lets Hades walk over her even when she has room to protest. Hermes seems very angry and disappointed in Orpheus when Eurydice goes underground, and he's absolutely devastated when Orpheus fails to get her back. And yet he himself does very little to actually try to stop Eurydice from taking Hades' offer or to directly help Orpheus get her back, other than giving him directions to find the "back way" into Hadestown. It's strongly implied that as a god under Hades' rule, he can't do anything to directly help anyone defy Hades.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d250df04	type	Creation Myth
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d250df04	comment	Creation Myth: "Epic I" tells the story of how Hades and Persephone fell in love, and how Persephone spending half the year aboveground and half in the Underworld created the seasons we all live by.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d3a4af1e	type	Sympathy for the Devil
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d3a4af1e	comment	Sympathy for the Devil: Persephone in "How Long," about both Orpheus (who just wants to see his lover Eurydice again) and Hades (who is tormented by their failing marriage as much as she is). Orpheus to Hades in "Epic III", realizing that despite all his wealth and power, the thing Hades most wants and tries so hard for is what he's already lost: his relationship with Persephone.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d73e0f7f	type	"Ray of Hope" Ending
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d73e0f7f	comment	"Ray of Hope" Ending: Like in the myth, Orpheus fails the test and Eurydice is trapped in Hadestown forever; as Hermes reminds us, it's a tragedy. But he also reminds the audience of the importance of dreaming of/fighting for a better world, and the characters pledge to sing the story again and again in the hope that this time it will turn out right (and at the end, Persephone brings spring rather than summer, hinting that things might change for the better).
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d9391535	type	Villain Love Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d9391535	comment	Villain Love Song: "Hey Little Songbird", in which Hades seduces Eurydice.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d97f6f0c	type	Musicalis Interruptus
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_d97f6f0c	comment	Musicalis Interruptus: One of the most heartwrenching ones in Broadway history, at the end of "Doubt Comes In".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: "When The Chips Are Down" is a fatalistic but very jaunty and catchy song. The same applies to the opening of the show, "Road to Hell", which remains a peppy party number even as Hermes outright tells the audience "It's a sad song, it's a tragedy!"
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_dbfe8427	type	Intercourse with You
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_dbfe8427	comment	Intercourse with You: An instrumental break towards the end of "All I've Ever Known" has Orpheus and Eurydice dance a stylized ballet to represent making love. Notable in that the song itself isn't about sex, though it does have Eurydice and Orpheus confessing their mutual love.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Eurydice hits it when she realizes how truly screwed she is in "Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)". Then, after the Hope Spot of "Promises", Orpheus and Eurydice fly right past it again when he makes the fateful turn to look in "Doubt Comes In". The opening of "Road to Hell (Reprise)" reveals that witnessing the ending of the story has made Hermes hit the horizon, with Andre de Shields' powerful tenor now broken and nearly silent, trying and failing to rouse himself with his trademark "Aight" only to almost break into tears.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ddab9ac8	type	Bad Samaritan
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ddab9ac8	comment	Bad Samaritan: Hades offers Eurydice a way out of poverty and instability, but it's all a front: once he has what he wants from her, he leaves her to work herself to death for him just like all his other workers. In "Way Down Hadestown II", the Fates imply that most of his workers were 'rescued' from similar circumstances.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_de32cc52	type	Winter of Starvation
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_de32cc52	comment	Winter of Starvation: Eurydice is driven to leave Orpheus and take Hades' offer of work and shelter when a winter storm, represented by the Fates, tears away her food and coat and leaves her cold and starving while Orpheus is preoccupied working on his song.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e174e266	type	Nature vs. Technology
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e174e266	comment	Nature vs. Technology: Hades and Persephone's marriage is on the rocks in part because Hades keeps turning Hadestown into an industrial artificial city in a misguided attempt to reach out to her. Persephone, a goddess of nature and springtime, finds it appalling and calls it a "neon necropolis". The Broadway version ups the ante by stating that Hades is also keeping Persephone away from the surface for longer periods of time, which throws the seasons out of balance.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e25ae563	type	Final Love Duet
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e25ae563	comment	Final Love Duet: "Promises" has a reprise of the Wedding Song as Orpheus and Eurydice reaffirm their love for one another, and if they get through this, all they'll need is each other from now on.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Eurydice is repeatedly compared to a songbird, first as an inspiration to Orpheus' own musical talents, his muse. After being seduced by Hades, she's compared to a canary kept in a mine and a caged bird that can no longer fly just as Eurydice can no longer return to the surface. Hades is compared to a snake. Like the Biblical snake, Hades is a sly tempter who manipulates Eurydice into ruining her life by offering her a choice to stay in poverty with Orpheus or live in safety and comfort in Hadestown. It's also an allusion to the mythical Eurydice's death from a snake bite. Dogs are mentioned as menaces to beware of, with Hades' guard dogs as threats in "Wait For Me," but the real dog to beware is the one inside your head called Doubt.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Part of Hades' deepening villainy is shown by him plastering neon lights all over Hadestown. Persephone complains that "it ain't right and it ain't natural" for the place to be so bright in the middle of winter.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Orpheus and Eurydice end as this. Orpheus cannot return to Hadestown to see her and Eurydice cannot go to him on the surface because Orpheus broke the condition that Hades gave when he let the two of them go.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e680af6f	type	Grief Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e680af6f	comment	Grief Song: Inverted with "We Raise Our Cups", as Persephone and Eurydice sing a "reverse elegy" for Orpheus, who escaped Hadestown but now must Walk The Earth alone.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e7e53e71	type	Flowers of Nature
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_e7e53e71	comment	Flowers of Nature: A red bloom is a consistent Flower Motif throughout the show, symbolizing lost springtime. Persephone, the goddess of spring, wears and carries bright flowers when aboveground.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: The workers in Hadestown are doomed to an eternal life of hard labor and no rest, and worse, they forget all their memories.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ebb3c390	type	Crash-Into Hello
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ebb3c390	comment	Crash-Into Hello: Orpheus and Eurydice bump into each other towards the end of "Road to Hell" and become flustered as Hermes watches gleefully. They repeat this at the end of the musical when the story resets.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ef9a1b88	type	BassoProfundo
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ef9a1b88	comment	Basso Profundo: Both Greg Brown and Patrick Page portray Hades this way, with Page's bass tones described by reviews as "practically a special effect".
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: "Why We Build The Wall" is Hades holding a rally to keep his workers in line with the circular reasons for building his endless wall.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f1dcc3f	type	Soprano and Gravel
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f1dcc3f	comment	Soprano and Gravel: Eurydice and Hades respectively in "Hey Little Songbird."
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b	comment	Although "Road to Hell (Reprise)" starts as a Dark Reprise of "Road to Hell", it metamorphoses into a Triumphant Reprise in its second half, with Hermes proudly and defiantly shouting that even though Orpheus failed at the end, his dream of a better world lives on.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f5b42c55	type	Global Warming
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f5b42c55	comment	Global Warming: Due to Hades and Persephone's deteriorating marriage and the heavy industrialization of the Underworld, the world above only has summer and winter, and either one can come at a moment's notice. Orpheus's quest is to write a song to fix things and bring back spring and fall, putting the weather back in order.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f7bbd5b0	type	I Will Find You
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f7bbd5b0	comment	I Will Find You: Orpheus to Eurydice in "Wait For Me", vowing to track her down in Hadestown after she vanishes.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: "If It's True". Hades, after brutally mocking Orpheus for his optimism, orders his workers to beat him senseless, and it seems that nothing can convince Hades to let Eurydice go. Even worse, Eurydice came willingly, instead of by force as Orpheus thought â€” she lost faith in Orpheus' ability to provide for her and song to bring back spring, leaving for the security of Hadestown. All this ruins Orpheus so badly that he considers leaving without Eurydice, until he realizes the Workers are singing with him and renewing his hope.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fb17af62	type	Rhymes on a Dime
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: This being a sung-through show, there is very little spoken dialogue. However, when a character does speak, it's usually in rhyming verse rather than prose.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fbb310ed	type	Job Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fbb310ed	comment	Job Song: Several songs feature the Workers toiling in Hades' factories. Their portions of "Chant" introduce them and the mantra they chant to keep out of trouble, while "Why We Build the Wall" has Hades holding a rally to explain how 'vital' their jobs are. "Way Down Hadestown (Reprise)" has Eurydice being inducted into the fold of Workers and the mines, mills and machinery. Later songs such as "If It's True" and "Chant (Reprise)" subvert the trope by starting out with the Workers at work like normal, but deciding to stop and stand with Orpheus.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fc7c4f92	type	Canon Immigrant
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Eurydice's song "Any Way the Wind Blows" is this. The song debuted on Anais Mitchell's 2014 album xoa, which had a limited release and contained covers of multiple tracks from the original Hadestown album but wasn't directly connected to Hadestown. The song was added to the Hadestown stage show starting with the NYTW run, heavily edited to remove Real Life references and adding narration from Hermes to make it fit with the plot of the show.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Orpheus tries to politely ask Hades to leave with his wife. Hades retaliates by setting the workers on him to beat up the "young man". After Orpheus suffers a BSoD Song, he gets back up and realizes the workers have been repeating his words. He then uses the power to incite a riot, causing everyone in Hadestown to realize they're living a lie. To seal the deal, the staging has him shooting a Death Glare at Hades while doing this, establishing that he's doing this on purpose.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fcdf597b	type	Titled After the Song
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fcdf597b	comment	Titled After the Song: The album is titled after a line from "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". It's significant because the singers play the Fates.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fe938414	type	Sympathy for the Hero
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_fe938414	comment	Sympathy for the Hero: The three Fates tell us to not judge Eurydice because she was desperate, and desperate people often do what they need to survive a harsh world. Hades does give Orpheus a sporting chance to get his wife back and nullify the contract, since Orpheus's song did reconcile him and Persephone. It's Nothing Personal that he can't look weak in front of his workers, and it's implied he is rooting for Orpheus to actually make it to the surface.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	comment	Talking Is a Free Action: Subverted. When Orpheus and Eurydice reunite, they spend time singing about how Orpheus came through the wall, and his apology for not listening to her. This allows time for Hades to find them before they can escape.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ffb1df90	type	Perpetual Poverty
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ffb1df90	comment	Instead of being a faithful husband and son of the muse Calliope that loses his wife in a tragic accident, Orpheus is portrayed as a hopeless dreamer that uses music to beat their Perpetual Poverty. His music is his greatest strength, as we see when he tries to reason with Hades, but he often forgets practicalities like food and firewood, despite his love for Eurydice.
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Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ffd5b598	type	The Song Before the Storm
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ffd5b598	comment	The Song Before the Storm: "His Kiss, The Riot" is Hades' soliloquy as he wrestles over what to do with Orpheus, with the climax of the show coming shortly after he makes his decision.
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Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hadestown (Theatre) / int_name
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_name	itemName	Hadestown (Theatre)

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Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Actionized Adaptation / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Actor-Inspired Element / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Adaptation Expansion / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Adaptational Angst Upgrade / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Afterlife Express / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	All-Knowing Singing Narrator / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Alto Villainess / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ambiguous Time Period / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Appeal to Familial Wisdom / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Armor-Piercing Question / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	BSoD Song / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Bad Samaritan / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Badass Pacifist / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Beautiful Singing Voice / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Caged Bird Metaphor / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Call-and-Response Song / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Characterization Marches On / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Circular Reasoning / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Climate Change Allegory / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Coins for the Dead / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Colorblind Casting / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Company Town / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Conspicuous Consumption / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Costume Evolution / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Crisis Makes Perfect / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Darkest Hour / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Deal with the Devil / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Deity Fiction / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Deleted Role / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Don't Look Back / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Doomed Moral Victor / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Dragged Off to Hell / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Empire with a Dark Secret / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Engaging Conversation / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Everybody Hates Hades / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fan-Preferred Cut Content / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fandom-Specific Plot / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fantasy Americana / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Finger Gun / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fire and Brimstone Hell / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Fisher King / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Ghost Amnesia / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Global Warming / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Greek Chorus / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hakuna Matata / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hearing Voices / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hellevator / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hope Springs Eternal / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Hourglass Plot / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	I Own This Town / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	I Will Find You / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Inferiority Superiority Complex / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Inspiration for the Work / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Intercourse with You / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Irrelevant Act Opener / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Job Song / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Location Song / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Magic Music / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Mating Dance / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Maybe Ever After / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Meet Cute / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Method Acting / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Minimalist Cast / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Mood Dissonance / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Nature vs. Technology / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Nightmarish Factory / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Only the Leads Get a Downer Ending / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Oxymoronic Being / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Pyrrhic Victory / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	"Ray of Hope" Ending / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rescued from the Underworld / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Rhymes on a Dime / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Setting Introduction Song / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Shabby Heroes, Well-Dressed Villains / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Shipper on Deck / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Show Stopper / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Significant Wardrobe Shift / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Snicket Warning Label / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Soprano and Gravel / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Southern Gothic / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Spared by the Adaptation / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Spring Is Late / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Strange Salute / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Sung-Through Musical / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Tenor Boy / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Almighty Dollar / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Great Wall / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Ingenue / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Runaway / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Stinger / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	The Weird Sisters / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Theatre of the 2010s / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Trauma Conga Line / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Underworld River / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Villain Recruitment Song / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Villainous Advice Song / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Voice Types / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Walking the Earth / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Walls of Tyranny / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	What You Are in the Dark / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Winter of Starvation / int_a47889a2
Hadestown (Theatre)	hasFeature	Writer's Block / int_a47889a2

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