My favourite thing about hadestown is that the band are actually on stage instead of in an orchestra pit. It’s a lovely nod to the fact that hadestown was a concert album before anything else.
One thing to note about the staging of the piece. This song is performed entirely alone by Persephone (and the band of course). The workers she’s talking to are all backstage. In previous pre-Broadway versions of this song the workers were on stage with her but now they’re not. It’s just Persephone singing to… either an empty ‘bar’ or to us, the audience, as the workers she’s offering spirits too. Another fun fact, Brian Drye is really instrumental (lol) in how this show sounds. He’s apparently incredible on the trombone. And the show, given its jazz style, he’s able to improvise a lot. He was involved with the show from is pre-Broadway concept album era, and helped shaped what the show sounds like.
@@mangacraz00Ahh, ok. Yeah, they did start having her alone now, idk how would feel if the workers were there tbh, it feels more like she's singing to us as the audience as it's staged now
The tldr of this song is that Persephone can relate with the workers cause they're both stuck in Hadestown and not having a good time. So she does her best to raise their spirits. Both the alcoholic and personal kind.
Two thinks I keep coming back to about this song: Persephone is trying to relate to the workers as one of them, but they always keep a respectful distance. She wants them to say her name ("brother, what's my name?"), but they refuse to be so familiar, and say one of her honorary titles ("our lady of the underground, our lady of ways and means, etc.") as a mark of respect and fear. Persephone keeps forgetting, not only is she the boss's wife and therefore will never be down at the same level as the workers, but she's literally a goddess among mortals. Mortals who have already experienced the power and authority of at least one of the gods, so would be even less likely to act 'familiar' than the living mortals who know her only as the bringer of summertime. Second thing, I want someone to make an Eminem mashup of this. "My name is, what? My name is, who? My name is (chika-chika) our lady of the underground!"
Persephone’s speakeasy would be fun to see! I would love to see how she hides it from Hades. Is it a hidden behind something he created? I like to think they are in Asphodel. I think Hades didn’t want generic souls just meandering around anymore and decided to put them to work.
Anyone who likes this musical, I really do recommend listening to Anaïs Mitchell’s extended discography. It’s some of the best music I’ve ever heard, like ever, and it kills me that she isn’t more known as an independent artist. There’s tons of early Hadestown concepts to look at in there too, so. Ya know.
Lyrics for this song dont show the shout out to the orchestra because it actually changes with the performers. She shouts out the actual performers of the night, giving actual appreciation for the people making their music which is really nice
The "demigorgon" thing is a reference to Stranger Things. This is just the premise but some might consider it a light spoiler-- A group of kids is playing DnD, where one of the monsters is a "demigorgon." Turns out a real monster pops up and one of the kids goes missing, and they end up calling the real monster the demigorgon as well. In their investigations they looking for their missing friend, they stumble across a parallel reality that they end up calling the "Upside Down." So when they say "our lady of the upside down," the person doing subtitled decided to make a joke lol.
This animatic isn't canon, we don't know what, if anything, the workers see when Persephone offers to show them the sky, but she is trying to bring hope and happiness here, reminding them of the world above, when they were alive. Hadestown isn't so much in a specific place in the Greek understanding of the afterlife, it's (maybe become?) all there is to the afterlife, or at least, all we get to see of it. Souls give their coins to Hermes to board the train to Hadestown, Thanatos and Charon don't figure into it in this telling (like how Demeter isn't mentioned)
Hi Casper-- Laurie here (shared account). Loving your reactions to Hadestown! Sounds like you are a composer and musician in your own right. I don't know if you would be interested in this, but I think it would be cool to do a mash-up of "One Song Glory" from Rent and Orpheus' theme from Hadestown (the "la la la la...") one. I don't have the composition skills, but maybe you do!
@andrewjo6718 I mean its a lot less lyrically layered and pretty standard, closer to heathers, while this has either very little instrumentation or just these big jazz pieces.
Lmao, would be fun if she had the literal elements in jars. Purely because of the image i have of her asking Aeolus to put wind in a jar instead of a bag
My favourite thing about hadestown is that the band are actually on stage instead of in an orchestra pit. It’s a lovely nod to the fact that hadestown was a concert album before anything else.
One thing to note about the staging of the piece. This song is performed entirely alone by Persephone (and the band of course). The workers she’s talking to are all backstage. In previous pre-Broadway versions of this song the workers were on stage with her but now they’re not. It’s just Persephone singing to… either an empty ‘bar’ or to us, the audience, as the workers she’s offering spirits too.
Another fun fact, Brian Drye is really instrumental (lol) in how this show sounds. He’s apparently incredible on the trombone. And the show, given its jazz style, he’s able to improvise a lot. He was involved with the show from is pre-Broadway concept album era, and helped shaped what the show sounds like.
The band was on stage when I went to see it last month, maybe they made a change for COVID and changed back at some point but they are definitely back
@ oh no I mean the band is always there! In some of the very early days of the show (like pre Broadway) the workers were on stage too.
@@mangacraz00Ahh, ok. Yeah, they did start having her alone now, idk how would feel if the workers were there tbh, it feels more like she's singing to us as the audience as it's staged now
The tldr of this song is that Persephone can relate with the workers cause they're both stuck in Hadestown and not having a good time. So she does her best to raise their spirits. Both the alcoholic and personal kind.
Two thinks I keep coming back to about this song: Persephone is trying to relate to the workers as one of them, but they always keep a respectful distance. She wants them to say her name ("brother, what's my name?"), but they refuse to be so familiar, and say one of her honorary titles ("our lady of the underground, our lady of ways and means, etc.") as a mark of respect and fear. Persephone keeps forgetting, not only is she the boss's wife and therefore will never be down at the same level as the workers, but she's literally a goddess among mortals. Mortals who have already experienced the power and authority of at least one of the gods, so would be even less likely to act 'familiar' than the living mortals who know her only as the bringer of summertime.
Second thing, I want someone to make an Eminem mashup of this. "My name is, what? My name is, who? My name is (chika-chika) our lady of the underground!"
MASH IT UP OMG YES
Persephone’s speakeasy would be fun to see! I would love to see how she hides it from Hades. Is it a hidden behind something he created?
I like to think they are in Asphodel. I think Hades didn’t want generic souls just meandering around anymore and decided to put them to work.
Anyone who likes this musical, I really do recommend listening to Anaïs Mitchell’s extended discography. It’s some of the best music I’ve ever heard, like ever, and it kills me that she isn’t more known as an independent artist. There’s tons of early Hadestown concepts to look at in there too, so. Ya know.
Lyrics for this song dont show the shout out to the orchestra because it actually changes with the performers. She shouts out the actual performers of the night, giving actual appreciation for the people making their music which is really nice
I love the fact that you were referencing how much more you might be able to see on the Patreon and its actually just the whole rest of the show
The "demigorgon" thing is a reference to Stranger Things. This is just the premise but some might consider it a light spoiler-- A group of kids is playing DnD, where one of the monsters is a "demigorgon." Turns out a real monster pops up and one of the kids goes missing, and they end up calling the real monster the demigorgon as well. In their investigations they looking for their missing friend, they stumble across a parallel reality that they end up calling the "Upside Down." So when they say "our lady of the upside down," the person doing subtitled decided to make a joke lol.
This animatic isn't canon, we don't know what, if anything, the workers see when Persephone offers to show them the sky, but she is trying to bring hope and happiness here, reminding them of the world above, when they were alive. Hadestown isn't so much in a specific place in the Greek understanding of the afterlife, it's (maybe become?) all there is to the afterlife, or at least, all we get to see of it. Souls give their coins to Hermes to board the train to Hadestown, Thanatos and Charon don't figure into it in this telling (like how Demeter isn't mentioned)
Hi Casper-- Laurie here (shared account). Loving your reactions to Hadestown! Sounds like you are a composer and musician in your own right. I don't know if you would be interested in this, but I think it would be cool to do a mash-up of "One Song Glory" from Rent and Orpheus' theme from Hadestown (the "la la la la...") one. I don't have the composition skills, but maybe you do!
That wasn’t Hades. It was Hermes. Remember he visits the underground as a guide for the dead.
You want to have a musical that is more chill?
I probably know a musical that would "be more chill"
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Ironically, I would definitely not classify that musical as chill TwT
@andrewjo6718 I mean its a lot less lyrically layered and pretty standard, closer to heathers, while this has either very little instrumentation or just these big jazz pieces.
Lmao, would be fun if she had the literal elements in jars. Purely because of the image i have of her asking Aeolus to put wind in a jar instead of a bag
9:38 that's Hermes, not Hades
I'm waiting
Waaaaaiting
@@kohakunushi3028 odysseus when you come home ill be waaaaitiiinngg😔
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