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* BassoProfundo: 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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* TenorBoy: Orpheus is the young and tragic romantic lead. Contrast with BassoProfundo villain Hades.
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* TenorBoy: Orpheus is the young and tragic romantic lead. Contrast with BassoProfundo [[MediaNotes/VoiceTypes basso profundo]] villain Hades.
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* AnAesop:
** It's easy to believe in your abilities when things are going perfect. It takes real courage to believe in yourself and your loved ones when the deck is stacked against you.
** Even if you're bound to fail, even if the attempt is doomed to end in tears, you still have to get up and try. 'Cause just making the attempt might bring some small hope into the world.
** It's easy to believe in your abilities when things are going perfect. It takes real courage to believe in yourself and your loved ones when the deck is stacked against you.
** Even if you're bound to fail, even if the attempt is doomed to end in tears, you still have to get up and try. 'Cause just making the attempt might bring some small hope into the world.
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* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: 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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* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: Inverted; of all the people in the place, OnlyTheLeadsGetADownerEnding: Orpheus and Eurydice end up in the worst position by the end of the play, as they're separated forever while forever. Meanwhile, Hades and Persephone are on the mend and spring returns to the world above, as well as and there's an implication that Hadestown itself will improve.
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* RayOfHopeEnding: 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 telling sad yet inspirational stories, 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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* RayOfHopeEnding: 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 telling sad yet inspirational stories, dreaming of/fighting for a better world, and the characters pledge to sing the story again and again, 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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* GenderInclusiveWriting: 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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* ColorblindCasting: In keeping with the show's mythical 'any time, any place' setting, all the characters are listed as "Any ethnicity" on the casting call.
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* ColorblindCasting: 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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* GutturalGrowler: Patrick Page as Hades sings ''very'' low at times.
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* CoinsForTheDead: The "ticket" Hades gives Eurydice so she can go belowground are two coins, referencing Charon's obol -- the coins placed on corpses to pay Charon, the ferryman who transports souls to the land of the dead.
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** 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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol 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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** One sly reference to the original Greek myths is the "ticket" Hades offers to Eurydice comes in the form of [[CoinsForTheDead two identical coins or tokens, tokens]], a reference to the ''oboloi'' that were [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon%27s_obol 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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* SpringIsLate: 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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-->'''Hades:''' Take it from a man no longer young\\
If you want to hold a woman, son\\
Hang a chain around her throat\\
Made of many carat gold\\
Shackle her from wrist to wrist\\
With sterling silver bracelets\\
Fill her pockets full of stones\\
Precious ones, diamonds\\
Bind her with a golden band\\
Take it from an old man
If you want to hold a woman, son\\
Hang a chain around her throat\\
Made of many carat gold\\
Shackle her from wrist to wrist\\
With sterling silver bracelets\\
Fill her pockets full of stones\\
Precious ones, diamonds\\
Bind her with a golden band\\
Take it from an old man
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* WinterOfStarvation: 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.
