That non-London staging would've left me with very different feelings. Especially on the semi-uplifting final lines about raising our cups.
This entire conversation is fascinating to me because I have never seen another staging than the 2016 New York Theatre Workshop which was the original off-Broadway production of Hadestown and it did end with Hermes' re-singing of the story leading directly into Persephone's toast to Orpheus, but it didn't leave a sense of hopeless entrapment or political-mythical futility, which sounds like a factor of some of the changes between the two versions. I didn't know before now that the lyrics of the ending differ slightly, for example, in a way which would make a difference to me.
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Date: 2024-11-03 10:53 am (UTC)This entire conversation is fascinating to me because I have never seen another staging than the 2016 New York Theatre Workshop which was the original off-Broadway production of Hadestown and it did end with Hermes' re-singing of the story leading directly into Persephone's toast to Orpheus, but it didn't leave a sense of hopeless entrapment or political-mythical futility, which sounds like a factor of some of the changes between the two versions. I didn't know before now that the lyrics of the ending differ slightly, for example, in a way which would make a difference to me.