_"I know how this story goes! But if I wish really hard, maybe it won't happen, right??"_ Oh my God, Mortius, you nailed it! That's the theme of the whole play!
Hermes literally sings "maybe it'll turn out this time" in the intro song. And there's also the line from Orpheus during Living Up On Top: "for the world we're dreaming of... and the world we live in now".
Another little bit of symbolism I like in the musical (that sadly a lot of animatics miss) is that the "rattlesnake" warning sound is Hades shaking a jar of coins before offering Eurydice one as her ticket.
I was waiting for the "You can have your principles when you've got a belly full" and "hunger is so heavy" parallel discussion. Glad you talked about it!
Ohhhhhhh here we go! Fun fact about mine canaries: often the miners loved them and cared for them so much they became like pets - they were there to alert men to lack of oxygen, yes, but they were also warm and bright and sang deep underground. If at all possible, the miners would save their canary if it lost consciousness. They even had tiny oxygen tanks for their cages! ...not that that's what Hades intends for Eurydice, just a happier note about the canaries? I always thought they just died and were discarded, so knowing they were loved and looked after was a wonderful discovery.
Aww, that's really sweet!! Mining is a difficult and dangerous job, and having a piece of nature's beauty down there with you would be very precious to the miners, I bet. They also warned of lack of oxygen, not just gas leaks.
@@emilyrln Yes, you're absolutely correct! I should have said they warned the miners of situations where their breathing would be compromised - and for certain things like carbon monoxide that's life-or-death, because it has no smell and people can just pass out without realizing there's a problem. So those little canaries were precious in so many ways. We know some miners would whistle back to their canary's song, making up bits of music, and I like to think that would have made their lives just a little bit brighter.
@@matte5705 My dude! I am right there with you. Pigeons are such sweet, friendly birds and they're absolutely gorgeous to look at as well. If I could keep pigeons in a proper aviary, I totally would - in the meantime I have a little flock of feral pigeons that live outside my house that I feed daily and talk to. One day maybe one of them will let me pet and groom it. They already know my voice calling them for breakfast and trust me to chase bigger birds away from their food. Some of them have names and they're starting to work out I'm talking to them specifically. It's a good time with my flock.
Mortius: "I know where this goes!! But if I wish really hard, maybe it won't happen right? .....Right?" Us: "Maybe it won't, this time. It's an old song, a sad song... ...but we're gonna sing it again."
I think it is important to realizes that While Hades is extreme, he is also not entirely wrong. Yes, Orpheus is working on something important, but he _did_ leave all the things they need to survive up to Euridicy alone. Like, she had to find shelter, food and firewood for two people, because Orpheus did not help her with that. And as I said, yes, Orpheus is working on something important, but he is also so lost in it, that he ignores practical day to day life. I think it supposed to show that _extremes_ are always dangerous. Orpheus sees _nothing_ except his song and Hades see _nothing_ except his work and Euridicy just wants to live.
the way I view this part of Hadestown, is that Eurydice signing up as a miner in Hadestown is a metaphor for her dying, and her dying is a metaphor for moving to a working town like Hadestown (and how little choice people have in that situation) I also need you to know that on stage Eurydice hold up the coins given to her by Hades so they look like they cover her eyes.
Fun fact about the show: hermes is the one who plays the train whistle, so when she gives the coin, she’s giving it to Hermes and sends her off to hadestown. In Greek mythology Hermes shares the role that Thanatos plays and helps him with guiding the souls of the dead to the underworld
Orpheus was a bad husband tho. Yes, he was working to bring back spring, but what use is spring if his wife starves before he could write the song? He was looking too far into the future and how things COULD be, he forgot to care for her in the present. That being said, both Orpheus and Eurydice made mistakes-- but I cant entirely blame either of them because while misguided, they did it for both love and survival.
hadestown's take on orpheus is WAY different than other versions in the older versions, she was either chased by someone who wanted her (after their marriage) or bitten by a snake and died instantly in many iterations, he does turn his grief to music before descending to the underworld, so i wonder if thats why this version has him composing when he is
Hermes said it himself- Orpheus sees the way the world could be, Eurydice sees the way it is. Orpheus' mistake is he never faced the reality of the situation he was in until it was too late. Eurydice's mistake is she was so consumed with her situation she couldn't imagine a better future. Both mistakes will end with you way down under the ground.
'When the Chips Are Down' seems like as good a point as any to mention that one of the reasons that this musical is so dear to my heart -- one of the lesser, pettier reasons, admittedly, but a reason nonetheless -- is that it is so _very_ welcoming to those of us who sing in a lower female register. I think that Eurydice and the highest of the three Fates are the highest-pitched female roles outside of the chorus, and they're both well within a mezzo comfort zone. And then you have the lower female roles. Persephone and the middle Fate are both in very comfy ranges for your average alto, and that lowest Fate part (I like to imagine that she's Atropos) is way down where deep contraltos like me feel the most at home. It's just _such_ a nice change from the musical theater norm, which is usually a soprano's playground without all that much space for us gals with thicker vocal cords.
Fr, as more of an enjoyer of lower voices, specifically for the ladies, this musical was a godsend. I remember Amber Gray saying something about it in an interview, how *comfortable* she was singing Persephone and not having to strain so much for huge loud high notes
Yes, their voices are all so gorgeous in that warmer, lower register! (I just wish I could sing along more easily… but I have lots of musicals for that, and I don't begrudge y'all for this one).
@@emilyrln I certainly do know that "aw hell, whichever octave I try this in, it's gonna go to a difficult place for me, isn't it" feeling when trying to sing along with a show!
i don't know how true this is, but the reason this musical doesn't have insanely high female parts is because anais mitchel is used to writing for female voices, primarily her own since she is first and formost an indie musician, but has less experience with male voices, so orpheus and hades' parts being on either extremes of the male range was sorta an accident but it ended up being very thematically appropriate
I always connected The Fates to our internal monologue. they aren't evil and aren't characters per se, but rather they represent the different thoughts/conversations we have within ourselves when making choices. They alternate between connecting to the different characters and connecting with the audience. We can choose oh how harshly, we judge you. But if we choose to condemn her, we are forced to acknowledge that if we were in her shoes, we might do the exact same thing. ultimately,
To answer your question about why Hades is coming to Eurydice specifically instead of letting her die normally... remember that Hades and Persephone's fight had a line where Hades basically said "You dont like my hadestown that i built for you? Fine. Ill find someone who will." ... then enter Eurydice
Patrick Page’s voice goes so low that most other Hades’ have to opt up an entire octave, and if you heard it in a vacuum, the song still sounds really low (and it still is compared to most theater)
So, there are a few things going on here, obviously. There are a vast number of interpretations, and one of the beautiful things about Hadestown is that it intentionally leaves itself open to mean something to YOU, the member of the audience, the last member of the cast in this play. But Hades gave Eurydice a token, the "ticket to the underworld". He gave her a CHOICE. She dies, yes, and it's driven by hunger and the cold, but I don't think that's what kills her. The "rattlesnake" is Hermes, shaking a bag of coins, waiting to accept the coin she was given. The *option* she was given, to escape the pain and suffering. She hands him the token, the invitation she was given to Hadestown, paying for her passage. She *chooses* to die. With the rattlesnake imagery/invocation, I feel that the version of the legend where she is bitten by a snake is being used here, but rather than it being an accidental bite... she sought it out, to end the pain. That's why the Fates are talking about her death as though she could be blamed for it. I love the simplicity of the line "Orpheus, I'm *hungry*." It's so blunt- it wasn't complicated. She didn't need an essay explaining her thoughts. She could have left a post-it with those words alone, and it would be all one needed to understand why. And I'm so glad that the Fates DO take the moment to somberly look at the audience and tell you not to judge her for the choice to find some relief at long last. :) Act One is phenomenal. Act Two is worse. You're not ready.
Exactly. This pair of songs flay my heart open "Where are you now, Orpheus?" Like, he _promised_ he'd hold her forever. The fucking DELIVERY on "I'm _hungry_ " And yes, the Fates turning to the audience "You can have your principles, when you've got a belly full" Like, this song combo rarely fails to make my eyes water
Death is more of a metaphor for like. Being forced into Gilded Age wage slavery by the rapid industrialization of America in this musical. But also it is death… If you know what I mean.
22:20 This line is also referring to how Eurydice looked up at the encroaching storm while Orpheus was too focused on finishing his song... a betrayal in a way, seeing as he did nothing to help or even comfort her in her dying moments... a knife in the back
Fun comparison of the Hercules Muses vs the Hadestown Fates: the muses in Hercules were inspired by African-American gospel choir music, whereas Hadestown takes a lot of inspiration from New Orleans jazz. Both music styles are strongly associated with African-American and minority communities, which I thought was an interesting parallel.
This songbird imagery also hits so hard after the gilded cage imagery BS that Hades was pulling with Persephone in Chant. Eurydice is his replacement songbird who Hades hopes might appreciate a comfortable cage.
Just so you know in act 2, Chant (Reprise) has several versions depending on the recording. You can choose one for this reaction series, but I recommend you also check out the other two. Also, Hades approaches Eurydice himself to parallel him and Persephone.
Hades is such a compelling character! He tells Eurydice something true (Orpheus can't provide for her) and pairs it with something false (people get mean when the chips are down). Time after time, when disaster strikes and people are in desperate need, communities band together to help each other and other people come in to bring aid, not waiting for the government to step in. Hades is caught in that Mad Max delusion that everyone is as greedy and selfish as he has become, and it's simply not true. Billionaires fear disaster because they know we will seize and redistribute their hoarded resources, and then they'll have no power over us.
Fun fact about the mine canaries! The miners usually got super attached to the birds, and they stop singing when they pass out not because they died, so the miners would take the birds up to the surface with them and make sure they got clean fresh air and could wake up again. It didn't always help, but they tried. (Humans will pack bond with *anything*)
If you think about it, Eurydice is literally filling the role of a canary in some ways. It’s framed as if she’s going as a sacrifice to keep Hades happy long enough for Persephone to spend the time she needs to above ground. Once conditions are bad enough that she dies again in some form, it could be an early indicator that life and death are slipping dangerously out of balance.
Eva Noblezada singing “oh MY aching heaAaAaAAart” was stuck in my head for a while the first time I listened to Hadestown, and she absolutely killed that riff when I went to go see Hadestown live too
you dont understand how much that means to me saying out my name and the helpful out pick out this background was so much fun to do. also you are one of my favorites youtuber and your videos just bring so much joyful. to my life
I do get what you're saying about the weirdness of grieving a character who doesn't disappear from the story, but I'd argue it's more than just a changing setpiece. It's not like Eurydice's going to continue life like it was in the Overworld-she is very much dead and without agency. And Death in this show being a metaphor for exploitation under capitalism, you know she's not gonna have a good time even if you don't know the original myth.
As an OG tumblr veteran I honestly thought it was gonna be “do u love the color of the sky” idk why I thought that would be here tho… I think I’ve been Pavlov-ed 🤷♀️
I can only imagine for... *checks timer* 25 minutes what Mortius' reaction to Hades' voice. I am not ashamed to admit that I felt some things listening to it.
I can't blame Euridice a bit - if Patrick's Hades sang "Hey, little bird" to me I wouldn't need a train to go to Hadestown, because I'd just immediately jump on his arms
I really appreciate your empathy for Eurylochus :) We can love and empathise with Odysseus (despite his mistakes and the people he chose to sacrifice) and we can love and empathise with Eurylochus (who made mistake after mistake, but - as Jorge has said - just wanted to keep everyone alive). His life - and the life of every crew member - mattered just as much as Odysseus', even though we're naturally primed to connect more with the emotions and goals of the main character. Loving your Hadestown reactions!
About Eurylochus... You're right, he was starving and I think me and many others ate to harsh on Epic!Eurylochus. My issues with him mostly stems from the cow thing in the actual odyssey when they are in the underworld Tiresias specifically tells them that they will make it home on time if they don't kill Helios' cows but if they do it will take way longer. So the men knew what was at stake, it was literally prophesied. But Eurylochus still decided to kill the cow. As a result the crew dies and Ody is stranded on Calypso's island. I read the odyssey in middle school for a class and the 7 years on Calypso's island was incredibly depressing and traumatizing. I feel like I should try to be more sympathetic toward Eurylochus tho. Maybe one day. Poor Eurydice. Loved the reaction, ur awesome man, sorry for the long comment 😅
I agree but if you look at the original text from the cow part, the argument Eurylochus made for killing the cow was essentially the same as in the musical which is he'd rather die by being smited by a good than starve to death. So if seems to be that the og Eurylochus also just gave up
The Fates come off as evil in this Animatic. Yes, it was Euredices fate to die young, but this makes it look like they were pushing her towards that Path. Like this tragedy only happend becouse they got involved. In the Myth she dies becouse of a Snake biting her, in this Musical she chooses to work for Hades to get a better life.
It's funny how you say "It was her fate to die young" and then say "it looks like they were pishing her towards that path" - that is literally what they do because that is her fate, it's their job (in this musical) to make sure the stoyhappens the way it does. They already start that happening by stripping Eurydice of her bag and coat during the storm, making her vulnerable to the coat and ultimately to Hades. Whispering in her ear (always singing in the back of her mind) to make her act like the story demands her to act.
@@singenstattatmen5096 yes, as i said, in this Musical. In the Greek Myths the Fates dont get involved at all. Probably one of the few Gods who actually stick to that rule. It is Not their job to enforce fate, they just predict it. Only in this Animatic does it look like they push it. They dont even say it in the Musical that they enforce it, there they look like an Audience to Euredicies life.
The whole “I know how this ends but maybe it won’t” feeling is arguably the entire thesis of the story hahaha. Like being on a Railroad track to hell almost 😎 Loving ur reaction!!! It’s a very metaphorical play imo. It feels to me to be a lot about capitalism and the rigid structures of class struggles (who gets lost / stepped on etc like Eurydice) love it so much 😭😭
Yes! My big takeaways were the importance of worker solidarity and the danger of idolozing leaders. One person can stumble, and if that's all your ideological foundation is built upon, it will crumble. Believe in principles, not in one charismatic person, no matter how beautiful his voice or his words may be.
I enjoy all aspects of this reaction, but today i want to highlight this one: I love the background info (heh) on the background choices. The fact that they are not random but actually chosen by helpers-in-the-know to match the vibes? I adore it. The coordination!
the canary resuscitator is at least one instance where we can see how deeply the miners cared for these birds. And the Fates are the voices in your head. Never far always saying what you were already thinking befor.
The thing is that Eurydice has only known "how to hold [her] own" and immigrating when the "weather takes a turn on you" She stays for Orpheus! She loves him. She trusts him. And he _also_ abandons her when the weather turns. He becomes fixated on his song. He doesnt help he scour for food, or firewood. She's basically on her own still
It doesn't take away from the symbolism, but miners actually cared a lot about the canaries! They even made resurrection cages, just some good in the world
17:00 Scylla? Smash. - Casper, probably. Also, Casper's Hadestown reactions start next Friday in the same time slot he was doing Six (which he finished last week).
So at 24:18 She is actually dying of a snake bite. During the stage production, during "Songbird vs. Rattlesnake" She gets bitten, the choreography for this show is actually so amazing.
Hadestown's creator, Anaïs Mitchell, often stresses that the show is poetry. Don't take it too literally. Hadestown is death and it's also working for capitalism and it's also a cult and it's none of these things directly but all of them implicitly. Don't try to make sense of this show by finding a literal meaning. Just think about the implications and associations, and the imagery in the text.
So the animatic didn't depict the songbird vs rattlesnake moment super faithfully, but what you're supposed to get from it, seeing it on stage, is that the sound of the rattlesnake is coming from Hades shaking coins in his fist, the two silver coins you put over the eyes of the dead. Those are the ticket the dead pay to board the train to Hadestown
Hey, by the way, a suggestion: Once you finish this reaction series, I recommend doing a full listen-through of the musical, straight through from beginning to end, so that you can fully appreciate the musical as a whole. Since it's a sung-through and doesn't have any dialogue breaks, it makes for a fantastic experience.
There's something cool about the stage version of the rattlesnake noise, in recordings of the stage play that I've seen, that sound is actually from a thing of quarters (I don't know what they're called but it's a little cylindrical tube that you can hold quarters in, and Hades' actor shakes it whenever that sound is meant to appear)
To be honest the first time i heard "Hey, little somgbird" I was just so fascinated with Patrick Page's voice that I was like if it was me I would go with him just to hear him sing. But then I listened to the lyrics and it was a very different experience. The fates being the greek choir, telling us that she doesn't really have another choice. They are not evil or bad, they just know her fate from the beginning and have followed Eurydice since the beginning. Just as they know the fates of everyone in this play, they know nothing will change and tells us that we cant judge the choices made. They are us essentially, watching and seeing the fates play out. Everything in this show is revolving around the beginning song: "Its a sad song, its a sad tale, its a tragedy. But we're gonna sing it anyway." They know how it ends, but perhaps by singing it again and again, perhaps it will change the story.
Fun fact! Miners made a contraption to let canaries live! It’s able to be closed as soon as the bird faints so it can breath in normal air and be more likely to survive :D))))) Humans are very social creatures and it’s beautiful to see how much we care for animals and even inanimate objects to the point that when we give them the purpose of dying for us we find a way to keep them alive This has no relevancy to Hadestown but it’s a little reassuring to hear about the safety of canaries!! :3
The thing is: Hades is right. Orpheus promised her much, but kept nothing. He promised her to be a team, to be birds of a feather, but he did not support/help her, when she needed him most.
It's not a musical, but I'd love to know what you think of the new Netflix show Kaos that's about the greek gods and includes a retelling of orpheus and eurydice (it also has jeff goldblum as Zeus!)
Fun fact: Later on there was a type of cage called a "canary resuscitator" where, if the canary fainted, miners could close the cage and open a small oxygen tank to revive it so it could still survive as the miners left. Gives me a bit more faith in humanity :3
I never knew about the canary in the mines thing, that’s so interesting!! Also ominous as hell, in any situation, to hear birds chirping and then nothing at all
I learned the hard way not to sing Hey Little Songbird around dogs. Scared a very good boy with a low note. That was two or three years ago, and I still feel bad.
Death isn't particularly literal in this musical, so don't worry if you get confused. Also, I recommend that you look into some of the London West End version- Melanie La Barrie's Hermes is simply jaw dropping- I think theres atleast a trailer for the show on youtube. And they've hinted at a full cast recording CD for the UK cast on twitter a few months back.
This is one of the songs that always makes me reconsider my feelings of anger to eurylocus in EPIC because ive never felt the level of hunger they mustve felt on their journey 😢
Nah they took sheep to eat from Polyphemus if they rationed the food they would be fine and even if they didn’t theres no way they’d be hungry enough where they couldn’t wait a couple days to keep a bag closed and eat AT HOME but they ruined it and then immediately doubled down by killing more sacred animals
One fun BTS fact I found out was that (at least at the time this opened) this is the only musical that was composed entirely on the guitar. When it was put onto the piano it was so low that it was very nearly out of range of all the performers.. except for Patrick Page, who basically said something like 'you might be looking for me?' when he auditioned. (same for the high end too. Orpheus' vocal is in the sky).
Hey Little Songbird is such a nice song! As the people in the comments have been saying, you should definitely listen to Rafscrap’s cover of it! It’s so freaking GOOD.
I hope someone told you in the musical she makes the choice herself. She walks to Hermes and gives him the fare for the train to the Underworld. He walks up and she drops it in his cup that he's shaking. She's cold and starving to death and tired of suffering, so she makes the choice to die and go to Hadestown. That's why the Fates sing it like that.
I never knew that about the canary in the mines! That knowledge really does add so many layers to that song! Also about mourning a character death in a a show where they aren't really gone I think just shows your humanity and empathy for others
if you wanna get traumatized a bit more theres a story that i read when i was like 8 called "A little girl with matches" by Hans Christian Andersen which traumatized me. Its a short story and i really recommend it bcs i dont have a great memory and i was forced to read it and with most texts iam forced to read i forget them in an hour but now iam 15 and i still remember it very well
GREAT reaction, Mortius! Hey, Little Songbird is my favorite song from this musical and I’ve been looking forward to you reacting to it since you started Hadestown!
Absolutely enjoying the videos you make, came in from watching you watching the epic series! Now I'm just stuck here, but I do have a musical recommendation; The Mad Ones! I really do hope you enjoy Hadestown a lot!!
Ooooh, a Hadestown tier-list (or discussion) over on OAR with you & Casper would be so fun! Just know you have an audience for it if you guys choose to do something together for Hadestown!
Fun fact, I just saw the musical live 2 days ago and it was fantastic, it's already great just experiencing it through animatics but it is absolutely magical live, the stage work was incredible (If I hadn't seen the Lion king musical live it would be by far the best I've ever seen, but that one had large potentially even life sized puppets of animals such as Elephants and Antelope running around the stage an shadow puppet shows so it beats Hades Town out by a bit) and all of the performances were fantastic (Including the one by Euridice's understudy who was performing that night and so good you'd think she was the character's normal actress.) Anyway all that's to say I can watch your reaction series now. (Note: After catching up on your series I will say that both performances are amazing and honestly I couldn't quite pick a favourite (Though I'm biased towards the one I saw thanks to the fact everything sounds better on stage), the only real thing I have to say about it is that I somewhat prefer the current Hermes (Melanie La Barrie) though both are fantastic. Also I'm using the word note instead of edit for these nowadays since my computer's e key is very broken and can barely do anything let alone capital letters.)
Mortius, I'm not sure if you'd ever consider a TV show, but you should seriously consider doing the animated Netflix series Centaurworld. It's a little goofy in places, like bordering on brain rot levels, but it's also an incredibly well-told musical with a lot of depth and a song every episode (I think it might even be two an episode) so there's a lot of music for you to analyze as well as the narrative. It's also not long, only two seasons. You'd have my views guaranteed, as it is an underrated gem.
mortius probably won't see this but I wanna drop it in as a fun fact for anyone who hasn't seen the show on stage, the rattling sound isn't just there to mimic a rattlesnake, diegetically it's Hades jingling two coins in his hand which he gives to Eurydice, then later Hermes shows up with a bag and she hands the coins off to him, and he's the one who blows the train whistle since he's a psychopomp, this is usually what souls would do with Charon but he's not in this play so we have Hermes playing the part of ferryman
I've been debating bringing this up but figured i should For one of the later songs, wait for me reprise and doubt comes in, there is a very popular animatic for it by rambu (absolutely adore them and their stories btw), and i can so seen wanting to react to that one cause its one of the most popular animatics for the song at least last i check, main thing i wanna bring up is that it does miss a conversation between persephone and hades that may be kinda important, but besides that i absolutely adore rambu's video, also if you do react to their's an important detail is their videos follow two actresses from a comic of theirs, so it goes back and forth between the actual actresses and their story and the musical itself, it's an absolutely gorgeous animatic so those who haven't seen it i highly recommend it, it actually sparked my love for theater again
I caved in last episode and just finished watching the whole thing myself lol. Now I can just enjoy your reaction instead. I can't wait for the next videos
You don't even need to be starving. I have had very brief periods of food insecurity which were not life threatening, and it stillrewired my brain. I have trouble acting calm around food and not worrying about going hungry or running out. I can't imagine the effects of actual starvation would have on your decision making. So yeah, love to Eurylochus and Eurydice and their hangry moments, lol
_"I know how this story goes! But if I wish really hard, maybe it won't happen, right??"_
Oh my God, Mortius, you nailed it! That's the theme of the whole play!
Hermes literally sings "maybe it'll turn out this time" in the intro song. And there's also the line from Orpheus during Living Up On Top: "for the world we're dreaming of... and the world we live in now".
I came here to say that! Very thematic!
I was just about to comment this.
btw!! the “songbird vs rattlesnake” part is actually referencing the original myth, where she gets bitten by a poisonous snake
YES
I realized it when I listened to it again after a few years later after I saw it live lol
Another little bit of symbolism I like in the musical (that sadly a lot of animatics miss) is that the "rattlesnake" warning sound is Hades shaking a jar of coins before offering Eurydice one as her ticket.
I was waiting for the "You can have your principles when you've got a belly full" and "hunger is so heavy" parallel discussion. Glad you talked about it!
Ohhhhhhh here we go!
Fun fact about mine canaries: often the miners loved them and cared for them so much they became like pets - they were there to alert men to lack of oxygen, yes, but they were also warm and bright and sang deep underground. If at all possible, the miners would save their canary if it lost consciousness. They even had tiny oxygen tanks for their cages!
...not that that's what Hades intends for Eurydice, just a happier note about the canaries? I always thought they just died and were discarded, so knowing they were loved and looked after was a wonderful discovery.
Aww, that's really sweet!! Mining is a difficult and dangerous job, and having a piece of nature's beauty down there with you would be very precious to the miners, I bet. They also warned of lack of oxygen, not just gas leaks.
Thank you for saying this because I was going to
@@emilyrln Yes, you're absolutely correct! I should have said they warned the miners of situations where their breathing would be compromised - and for certain things like carbon monoxide that's life-or-death, because it has no smell and people can just pass out without realizing there's a problem. So those little canaries were precious in so many ways. We know some miners would whistle back to their canary's song, making up bits of music, and I like to think that would have made their lives just a little bit brighter.
The real tragedy is how we domesticated the pigeon then abandoned them
@@matte5705 My dude! I am right there with you. Pigeons are such sweet, friendly birds and they're absolutely gorgeous to look at as well. If I could keep pigeons in a proper aviary, I totally would - in the meantime I have a little flock of feral pigeons that live outside my house that I feed daily and talk to. One day maybe one of them will let me pet and groom it. They already know my voice calling them for breakfast and trust me to chase bigger birds away from their food. Some of them have names and they're starting to work out I'm talking to them specifically. It's a good time with my flock.
Mortius: "I know where this goes!! But if I wish really hard, maybe it won't happen right? .....Right?"
Us: "Maybe it won't, this time. It's an old song, a sad song...
...but we're gonna sing it again."
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@@officialmortiuswell, they did give us a warning
It's an old tale, it's a tragedy. But we're gonna sing it anyway.
Maybe it will turn out this time.
On the road to hell, on the railroad line
I think it is important to realizes that While Hades is extreme, he is also not entirely wrong. Yes, Orpheus is working on something important, but he _did_ leave all the things they need to survive up to Euridicy alone. Like, she had to find shelter, food and firewood for two people, because Orpheus did not help her with that. And as I said, yes, Orpheus is working on something important, but he is also so lost in it, that he ignores practical day to day life. I think it supposed to show that _extremes_ are always dangerous. Orpheus sees _nothing_ except his song and Hades see _nothing_ except his work and Euridicy just wants to live.
"If I wish really hard, maybe it won't happen, right? Right??"
Maybe it'll turn out this time.
i was gonna say!!!
he summarized the whole reason (in universe) for the whole musical!!!!
I see what you did there
the way I view this part of Hadestown, is that Eurydice signing up as a miner in Hadestown is a metaphor for her dying, and her dying is a metaphor for moving to a working town like Hadestown (and how little choice people have in that situation)
I also need you to know that on stage Eurydice hold up the coins given to her by Hades so they look like they cover her eyes.
Fun fact about the show: hermes is the one who plays the train whistle, so when she gives the coin, she’s giving it to Hermes and sends her off to hadestown. In Greek mythology Hermes shares the role that Thanatos plays and helps him with guiding the souls of the dead to the underworld
whats even worse, is that thanatos takes the peacefuly deaths. which makes euridyce getting shepherded by hermes even more heartbreaking
Orpheus was a bad husband tho. Yes, he was working to bring back spring, but what use is spring if his wife starves before he could write the song? He was looking too far into the future and how things COULD be, he forgot to care for her in the present. That being said, both Orpheus and Eurydice made mistakes-- but I cant entirely blame either of them because while misguided, they did it for both love and survival.
hadestown's take on orpheus is WAY different than other versions
in the older versions, she was either chased by someone who wanted her (after their marriage) or bitten by a snake and died instantly
in many iterations, he does turn his grief to music before descending to the underworld, so i wonder if thats why this version has him composing when he is
Hermes said it himself- Orpheus sees the way the world could be, Eurydice sees the way it is. Orpheus' mistake is he never faced the reality of the situation he was in until it was too late. Eurydice's mistake is she was so consumed with her situation she couldn't imagine a better future.
Both mistakes will end with you way down under the ground.
“I don’t have thoughts I just have trauma” is the hadestown experience tbh
fun fact, the rattle snake sound at the beginning of when the chips are down is hades shaking a bag of coins
i've literally seen the musical live and watched several recordings HOW have i not noticed this 😭
Whoa…
'When the Chips Are Down' seems like as good a point as any to mention that one of the reasons that this musical is so dear to my heart -- one of the lesser, pettier reasons, admittedly, but a reason nonetheless -- is that it is so _very_ welcoming to those of us who sing in a lower female register.
I think that Eurydice and the highest of the three Fates are the highest-pitched female roles outside of the chorus, and they're both well within a mezzo comfort zone. And then you have the lower female roles. Persephone and the middle Fate are both in very comfy ranges for your average alto, and that lowest Fate part (I like to imagine that she's Atropos) is way down where deep contraltos like me feel the most at home.
It's just _such_ a nice change from the musical theater norm, which is usually a soprano's playground without all that much space for us gals with thicker vocal cords.
Fr, as more of an enjoyer of lower voices, specifically for the ladies, this musical was a godsend. I remember Amber Gray saying something about it in an interview, how *comfortable* she was singing Persephone and not having to strain so much for huge loud high notes
Yes, their voices are all so gorgeous in that warmer, lower register! (I just wish I could sing along more easily… but I have lots of musicals for that, and I don't begrudge y'all for this one).
@@emilyrln I certainly do know that "aw hell, whichever octave I try this in, it's gonna go to a difficult place for me, isn't it" feeling when trying to sing along with a show!
i don't know how true this is, but the reason this musical doesn't have insanely high female parts is because anais mitchel is used to writing for female voices, primarily her own since she is first and formost an indie musician, but has less experience with male voices, so orpheus and hades' parts being on either extremes of the male range was sorta an accident but it ended up being very thematically appropriate
Ive been waiting for this, Patrick Page is absolutely insane and i cant wait to your reaction to his low notes
Half the audience started giggling when I watched this live. It got quiet real quick again, but that first word had most everyone flustered 😂
I always connected The Fates to our internal monologue. they aren't evil and aren't characters per se, but rather they represent the different thoughts/conversations we have within ourselves when making choices.
They alternate between connecting to the different characters and connecting with the audience. We can choose oh how harshly, we judge you. But if we choose to condemn her, we are forced to acknowledge that if we were in her shoes, we might do the exact same thing. ultimately,
To answer your question about why Hades is coming to Eurydice specifically instead of letting her die normally... remember that Hades and Persephone's fight had a line where Hades basically said "You dont like my hadestown that i built for you? Fine. Ill find someone who will."
... then enter Eurydice
Patrick Page’s voice goes so low that most other Hades’ have to opt up an entire octave, and if you heard it in a vacuum, the song still sounds really low (and it still is compared to most theater)
So, there are a few things going on here, obviously. There are a vast number of interpretations, and one of the beautiful things about Hadestown is that it intentionally leaves itself open to mean something to YOU, the member of the audience, the last member of the cast in this play.
But Hades gave Eurydice a token, the "ticket to the underworld". He gave her a CHOICE. She dies, yes, and it's driven by hunger and the cold, but I don't think that's what kills her. The "rattlesnake" is Hermes, shaking a bag of coins, waiting to accept the coin she was given. The *option* she was given, to escape the pain and suffering. She hands him the token, the invitation she was given to Hadestown, paying for her passage.
She *chooses* to die. With the rattlesnake imagery/invocation, I feel that the version of the legend where she is bitten by a snake is being used here, but rather than it being an accidental bite... she sought it out, to end the pain. That's why the Fates are talking about her death as though she could be blamed for it.
I love the simplicity of the line "Orpheus, I'm *hungry*." It's so blunt- it wasn't complicated. She didn't need an essay explaining her thoughts. She could have left a post-it with those words alone, and it would be all one needed to understand why. And I'm so glad that the Fates DO take the moment to somberly look at the audience and tell you not to judge her for the choice to find some relief at long last.
:) Act One is phenomenal. Act Two is worse. You're not ready.
Spot on
Exactly. This pair of songs flay my heart open
"Where are you now, Orpheus?" Like, he _promised_ he'd hold her forever.
The fucking DELIVERY on "I'm _hungry_ "
And yes, the Fates turning to the audience "You can have your principles, when you've got a belly full"
Like, this song combo rarely fails to make my eyes water
Death is more of a metaphor for like. Being forced into Gilded Age wage slavery by the rapid industrialization of America in this musical. But also it is death… If you know what I mean.
A lot of folks have got to die to keep the rust belt rolling. A lot of spirits gotta break to make the (under)world go round...
22:20 This line is also referring to how Eurydice looked up at the encroaching storm while Orpheus was too focused on finishing his song... a betrayal in a way, seeing as he did nothing to help or even comfort her in her dying moments... a knife in the back
Fun comparison of the Hercules Muses vs the Hadestown Fates: the muses in Hercules were inspired by African-American gospel choir music, whereas Hadestown takes a lot of inspiration from New Orleans jazz. Both music styles are strongly associated with African-American and minority communities, which I thought was an interesting parallel.
This songbird imagery also hits so hard after the gilded cage imagery BS that Hades was pulling with Persephone in Chant. Eurydice is his replacement songbird who Hades hopes might appreciate a comfortable cage.
That he noticed when she said “Makes you wonder how it feels” in Way Down Hadestown.
Just so you know in act 2, Chant (Reprise) has several versions depending on the recording. You can choose one for this reaction series, but I recommend you also check out the other two.
Also, Hades approaches Eurydice himself to parallel him and Persephone.
Same goes for Epic III, if I remember correctly
@@roundestleaf I know the Broadway and the concept album versions. Are there others I’m not aware of?
@@KHTimeProtecter I think the West End version reworked it completely, but I might be thinking of a different song.
@@XanderHarris1023 not completely, but there are a couple of lines that were changed
Hades is such a compelling character! He tells Eurydice something true (Orpheus can't provide for her) and pairs it with something false (people get mean when the chips are down). Time after time, when disaster strikes and people are in desperate need, communities band together to help each other and other people come in to bring aid, not waiting for the government to step in. Hades is caught in that Mad Max delusion that everyone is as greedy and selfish as he has become, and it's simply not true. Billionaires fear disaster because they know we will seize and redistribute their hoarded resources, and then they'll have no power over us.
Fun fact about the mine canaries! The miners usually got super attached to the birds, and they stop singing when they pass out not because they died, so the miners would take the birds up to the surface with them and make sure they got clean fresh air and could wake up again. It didn't always help, but they tried. (Humans will pack bond with *anything*)
Yes! Especially in a dark, hot, dangerous, difficult job like mining, people will cherish whatever speck of brightness and beauty they can find 💕
If you think about it, Eurydice is literally filling the role of a canary in some ways. It’s framed as if she’s going as a sacrifice to keep Hades happy long enough for Persephone to spend the time she needs to above ground. Once conditions are bad enough that she dies again in some form, it could be an early indicator that life and death are slipping dangerously out of balance.
Eva Noblezada singing “oh MY aching heaAaAaAAart” was stuck in my head for a while the first time I listened to Hadestown, and she absolutely killed that riff when I went to go see Hadestown live too
you dont understand how much that means to me saying out my name and the helpful out pick out this background was so much fun to do. also you are one of my favorites youtuber and your videos just bring so much joyful. to my life
I do get what you're saying about the weirdness of grieving a character who doesn't disappear from the story, but I'd argue it's more than just a changing setpiece. It's not like Eurydice's going to continue life like it was in the Overworld-she is very much dead and without agency. And Death in this show being a metaphor for exploitation under capitalism, you know she's not gonna have a good time even if you don't know the original myth.
Hey.
Little songbird.
The end of that comment is as far down as Patrick Page's notes
Why so long?! I regret opening it up 😭😂
@@malenejensen02 Mwah ha haaa I've made it even longer now!!!
I hate you for that but I also love you for that😂😂😂
As an OG tumblr veteran I honestly thought it was gonna be “do u love the color of the sky” idk why I thought that would be here tho… I think I’ve been Pavlov-ed 🤷♀️
I can only imagine for... *checks timer* 25 minutes what Mortius' reaction to Hades' voice.
I am not ashamed to admit that I felt some things listening to it.
I can't blame Euridice a bit - if Patrick's Hades sang "Hey, little bird" to me I wouldn't need a train to go to Hadestown, because I'd just immediately jump on his arms
@@Matheus-ql7mn😂😂😂😂 I'd be lying if I said I felt nothing for those velvety tones… 🥵
I really appreciate your empathy for Eurylochus :) We can love and empathise with Odysseus (despite his mistakes and the people he chose to sacrifice) and we can love and empathise with Eurylochus (who made mistake after mistake, but - as Jorge has said - just wanted to keep everyone alive). His life - and the life of every crew member - mattered just as much as Odysseus', even though we're naturally primed to connect more with the emotions and goals of the main character.
Loving your Hadestown reactions!
About Eurylochus... You're right, he was starving and I think me and many others ate to harsh on Epic!Eurylochus.
My issues with him mostly stems from the cow thing in the actual odyssey when they are in the underworld Tiresias specifically tells them that they will make it home on time if they don't kill Helios' cows but if they do it will take way longer. So the men knew what was at stake, it was literally prophesied. But Eurylochus still decided to kill the cow. As a result the crew dies and Ody is stranded on Calypso's island. I read the odyssey in middle school for a class and the 7 years on Calypso's island was incredibly depressing and traumatizing.
I feel like I should try to be more sympathetic toward Eurylochus tho. Maybe one day.
Poor Eurydice. Loved the reaction, ur awesome man, sorry for the long comment 😅
I agree but if you look at the original text from the cow part, the argument Eurylochus made for killing the cow was essentially the same as in the musical which is he'd rather die by being smited by a good than starve to death. So if seems to be that the og Eurylochus also just gave up
@@maggieyue28 That's pretty upsetting to me as well because he's dragging everyone down with him. Nice to know tho, thanks :D
The Fates come off as evil in this Animatic. Yes, it was Euredices fate to die young, but this makes it look like they were pushing her towards that Path. Like this tragedy only happend becouse they got involved.
In the Myth she dies becouse of a Snake biting her, in this Musical she chooses to work for Hades to get a better life.
It's funny how you say "It was her fate to die young" and then say "it looks like they were pishing her towards that path" - that is literally what they do because that is her fate, it's their job (in this musical) to make sure the stoyhappens the way it does. They already start that happening by stripping Eurydice of her bag and coat during the storm, making her vulnerable to the coat and ultimately to Hades. Whispering in her ear (always singing in the back of her mind) to make her act like the story demands her to act.
@@singenstattatmen5096 yes, as i said, in this Musical. In the Greek Myths the Fates dont get involved at all. Probably one of the few Gods who actually stick to that rule.
It is Not their job to enforce fate, they just predict it. Only in this Animatic does it look like they push it. They dont even say it in the Musical that they enforce it, there they look like an Audience to Euredicies life.
The whole “I know how this ends but maybe it won’t” feeling is arguably the entire thesis of the story hahaha. Like being on a Railroad track to hell almost 😎
Loving ur reaction!!! It’s a very metaphorical play imo. It feels to me to be a lot about capitalism and the rigid structures of class struggles (who gets lost / stepped on etc like Eurydice) love it so much 😭😭
Yes! My big takeaways were the importance of worker solidarity and the danger of idolozing leaders. One person can stumble, and if that's all your ideological foundation is built upon, it will crumble. Believe in principles, not in one charismatic person, no matter how beautiful his voice or his words may be.
I enjoy all aspects of this reaction, but today i want to highlight this one: I love the background info (heh) on the background choices. The fact that they are not random but actually chosen by helpers-in-the-know to match the vibes? I adore it. The coordination!
the canary resuscitator is at least one instance where we can see how deeply the miners cared for these birds.
And the Fates are the voices in your head. Never far always saying what you were already thinking befor.
Don’t take “death” so literally in this show, it’s more metaphorical
I love the birds of a feather line because the original meaning to the phrase is about fair weather freinds kinda like how orpheus shut himself off
The thing is that Eurydice has only known "how to hold [her] own" and immigrating when the "weather takes a turn on you"
She stays for Orpheus! She loves him. She trusts him.
And he _also_ abandons her when the weather turns. He becomes fixated on his song. He doesnt help he scour for food, or firewood. She's basically on her own still
It doesn't take away from the symbolism, but miners actually cared a lot about the canaries! They even made resurrection cages, just some good in the world
9:45 that's the whole point of the musical lowkey
Basically 😅
Eurydice: I’m already gone.
Mortius: This character is not gone.
eurydice and eurylocus they could never make me hate you 🫂🫂 (i love them so much and parallels go insane)
17:00 Scylla? Smash. - Casper, probably.
Also, Casper's Hadestown reactions start next Friday in the same time slot he was doing Six (which he finished last week).
“I don’t have any thoughts. I just have a trauma” lol
So at 24:18 She is actually dying of a snake bite. During the stage production, during "Songbird vs. Rattlesnake" She gets bitten, the choreography for this show is actually so amazing.
Hadestown's creator, Anaïs Mitchell, often stresses that the show is poetry. Don't take it too literally. Hadestown is death and it's also working for capitalism and it's also a cult and it's none of these things directly but all of them implicitly. Don't try to make sense of this show by finding a literal meaning. Just think about the implications and associations, and the imagery in the text.
"But like if I wish very hard, maybe it won't like happen"
Surprisingly an actual theme in Hadestown funnily enough!
That being said, augghhh it's going to be such a long week waiting for your reaction to Wait For Me...!
"Maybe if i wish really hard it won't happen, right? RIGHT?!"
*mischievous casper grin*
12:05 fun fact!!
they actually werent!!!!
they had little bird resuscitation chambers for them!
yes, likely many of them died, but they did try!
So the animatic didn't depict the songbird vs rattlesnake moment super faithfully, but what you're supposed to get from it, seeing it on stage, is that the sound of the rattlesnake is coming from Hades shaking coins in his fist, the two silver coins you put over the eyes of the dead. Those are the ticket the dead pay to board the train to Hadestown
I hope that when you get to "Why Do We Build The Wall" you will react to Murky Musito animatic, it's amazing!
"but if I wish really hard maybe it won't happen" SCREAMING AND SOBBING
Hey, by the way, a suggestion: Once you finish this reaction series, I recommend doing a full listen-through of the musical, straight through from beginning to end, so that you can fully appreciate the musical as a whole. Since it's a sung-through and doesn't have any dialogue breaks, it makes for a fantastic experience.
There's something cool about the stage version of the rattlesnake noise, in recordings of the stage play that I've seen, that sound is actually from a thing of quarters (I don't know what they're called but it's a little cylindrical tube that you can hold quarters in, and Hades' actor shakes it whenever that sound is meant to appear)
To be honest the first time i heard "Hey, little somgbird" I was just so fascinated with Patrick Page's voice that I was like if it was me I would go with him just to hear him sing. But then I listened to the lyrics and it was a very different experience.
The fates being the greek choir, telling us that she doesn't really have another choice. They are not evil or bad, they just know her fate from the beginning and have followed Eurydice since the beginning.
Just as they know the fates of everyone in this play, they know nothing will change and tells us that we cant judge the choices made. They are us essentially, watching and seeing the fates play out.
Everything in this show is revolving around the beginning song: "Its a sad song, its a sad tale, its a tragedy. But we're gonna sing it anyway."
They know how it ends, but perhaps by singing it again and again, perhaps it will change the story.
🎵 🎶It's a sad song 🎶🎵
🎶 But We’re Gunna Sing It Anyway… 🎶
Fun fact! Miners made a contraption to let canaries live! It’s able to be closed as soon as the bird faints so it can breath in normal air and be more likely to survive :D)))))
Humans are very social creatures and it’s beautiful to see how much we care for animals and even inanimate objects to the point that when we give them the purpose of dying for us we find a way to keep them alive
This has no relevancy to Hadestown but it’s a little reassuring to hear about the safety of canaries!! :3
Can't wait, Mortius!
Remember, the Fates are the voices in the back of your mind. This is Eurydice fighting with her own survival instinct.
The thing is: Hades is right. Orpheus promised her much, but kept nothing. He promised her to be a team, to be birds of a feather, but he did not support/help her, when she needed him most.
9:38
That’s it. That’s a summary of Hadestown.
I don't know why, but watching Mortius break down in real time makes the songs so much more impactful for me.
This is the one I've been waiting for mortius to react to as soon as they announced this react series. What a knockout performance
subbed to patreon for this but showing up for the algorithm, love this
It's not a musical, but I'd love to know what you think of the new Netflix show Kaos that's about the greek gods and includes a retelling of orpheus and eurydice (it also has jeff goldblum as Zeus!)
Fun fact: Later on there was a type of cage called a "canary resuscitator" where, if the canary fainted, miners could close the cage and open a small oxygen tank to revive it so it could still survive as the miners left. Gives me a bit more faith in humanity :3
I never knew about the canary in the mines thing, that’s so interesting!! Also ominous as hell, in any situation, to hear birds chirping and then nothing at all
I learned the hard way not to sing Hey Little Songbird around dogs. Scared a very good boy with a low note. That was two or three years ago, and I still feel bad.
Oh nooooooooo 😂😢
Death isn't particularly literal in this musical, so don't worry if you get confused. Also, I recommend that you look into some of the London West End version- Melanie La Barrie's Hermes is simply jaw dropping- I think theres atleast a trailer for the show on youtube. And they've hinted at a full cast recording CD for the UK cast on twitter a few months back.
This is one of the songs that always makes me reconsider my feelings of anger to eurylocus in EPIC because ive never felt the level of hunger they mustve felt on their journey 😢
Nah they took sheep to eat from Polyphemus if they rationed the food they would be fine and even if they didn’t theres no way they’d be hungry enough where they couldn’t wait a couple days to keep a bag closed and eat AT HOME but they ruined it and then immediately doubled down by killing more sacred animals
One fun BTS fact I found out was that (at least at the time this opened) this is the only musical that was composed entirely on the guitar. When it was put onto the piano it was so low that it was very nearly out of range of all the performers.. except for Patrick Page, who basically said something like 'you might be looking for me?' when he auditioned. (same for the high end too. Orpheus' vocal is in the sky).
“Lungs doesn’t even time with wings !!!!!!!!!” Love it hahaha
Hey Little Songbird is such a nice song! As the people in the comments have been saying, you should definitely listen to Rafscrap’s cover of it! It’s so freaking GOOD.
I hope someone told you in the musical she makes the choice herself. She walks to Hermes and gives him the fare for the train to the Underworld. He walks up and she drops it in his cup that he's shaking. She's cold and starving to death and tired of suffering, so she makes the choice to die and go to Hadestown. That's why the Fates sing it like that.
I never knew that about the canary in the mines! That knowledge really does add so many layers to that song! Also about mourning a character death in a a show where they aren't really gone I think just shows your humanity and empathy for others
if you wanna get traumatized a bit more theres a story that i read when i was like 8 called "A little girl with matches" by Hans Christian Andersen which traumatized me. Its a short story and i really recommend it bcs i dont have a great memory and i was forced to read it and with most texts iam forced to read i forget them in an hour but now iam 15 and i still remember it very well
GREAT reaction, Mortius! Hey, Little Songbird is my favorite song from this musical and I’ve been looking forward to you reacting to it since you started Hadestown!
Absolutely enjoying the videos you make, came in from watching you watching the epic series! Now I'm just stuck here, but I do have a musical recommendation; The Mad Ones!
I really do hope you enjoy Hadestown a lot!!
The Tom waits/asmr personified of Patrick Page's voice is hypnotizing
Did not expect Patrick Page to slay THAT hard with his vocals, like DAAAAAMNN
“Hey Little Songbird” is my favorite song!!!!
Ooooh, a Hadestown tier-list (or discussion) over on OAR with you & Casper would be so fun!
Just know you have an audience for it if you guys choose to do something together for Hadestown!
I would love for you to see when the chips are down on stage! No pressure to record your reaction to that, but the staging for that song is fantastic
Fun fact, I just saw the musical live 2 days ago and it was fantastic, it's already great just experiencing it through animatics but it is absolutely magical live, the stage work was incredible (If I hadn't seen the Lion king musical live it would be by far the best I've ever seen, but that one had large potentially even life sized puppets of animals such as Elephants and Antelope running around the stage an shadow puppet shows so it beats Hades Town out by a bit) and all of the performances were fantastic (Including the one by Euridice's understudy who was performing that night and so good you'd think she was the character's normal actress.) Anyway all that's to say I can watch your reaction series now.
(Note: After catching up on your series I will say that both performances are amazing and honestly I couldn't quite pick a favourite (Though I'm biased towards the one I saw thanks to the fact everything sounds better on stage), the only real thing I have to say about it is that I somewhat prefer the current Hermes (Melanie La Barrie) though both are fantastic. Also I'm using the word note instead of edit for these nowadays since my computer's e key is very broken and can barely do anything let alone capital letters.)
Mortius, I'm not sure if you'd ever consider a TV show, but you should seriously consider doing the animated Netflix series Centaurworld. It's a little goofy in places, like bordering on brain rot levels, but it's also an incredibly well-told musical with a lot of depth and a song every episode (I think it might even be two an episode) so there's a lot of music for you to analyze as well as the narrative. It's also not long, only two seasons. You'd have my views guaranteed, as it is an underrated gem.
Omg, Centaurworld is soooo underrated & the music is so fun!!
Ahhh, it'd be the _perfect_ musical show for him to react to!
mortius probably won't see this but I wanna drop it in as a fun fact for anyone who hasn't seen the show on stage, the rattling sound isn't just there to mimic a rattlesnake, diegetically it's Hades jingling two coins in his hand which he gives to Eurydice, then later Hermes shows up with a bag and she hands the coins off to him, and he's the one who blows the train whistle since he's a psychopomp, this is usually what souls would do with Charon but he's not in this play so we have Hermes playing the part of ferryman
9:45
You should come back to this moment when you finish the show
"I don't have any thoughts, I just have trauma." Is the best.
Man I'm enjoying the comparisons you draw a lot
I've been debating bringing this up but figured i should
For one of the later songs, wait for me reprise and doubt comes in, there is a very popular animatic for it by rambu (absolutely adore them and their stories btw), and i can so seen wanting to react to that one cause its one of the most popular animatics for the song at least last i check, main thing i wanna bring up is that it does miss a conversation between persephone and hades that may be kinda important, but besides that i absolutely adore rambu's video, also if you do react to their's an important detail is their videos follow two actresses from a comic of theirs, so it goes back and forth between the actual actresses and their story and the musical itself, it's an absolutely gorgeous animatic so those who haven't seen it i highly recommend it, it actually sparked my love for theater again
Ooooh, Murky really said "I can do anything I want in my animatic"! 😍
I know it's like a 0% chance, but I'm begging you to check out Sondheim's Assassins musical! It's so good!
Ooooo I'd be so down
I caved in last episode and just finished watching the whole thing myself lol. Now I can just enjoy your reaction instead. I can't wait for the next videos
You don't even need to be starving. I have had very brief periods of food insecurity which were not life threatening, and it stillrewired my brain. I have trouble acting calm around food and not worrying about going hungry or running out. I can't imagine the effects of actual starvation would have on your decision making. So yeah, love to Eurylochus and Eurydice and their hangry moments, lol
Euryllochus is definitely overhated, he did the best he could with what he had.
the way i had flailed in the middle of work when i got this notif