Literally a Dragon

me: [discovers a new musical]

I’ve had the Hadestown performance of Wait For Me (Reprise) on in the background for a while today, thinking about what Rachel Chavkin said at the Tony Awards about how society/capitalism can really make you feel so alone even if your partner/the people you love are right behind you. And it got me thinking SO MUCH about how in the first Wait For Me, Orpheus goes down to Hadestown, believing in himself against all odds. Despite the fact that the fates are asking him who he thinks he is, despite the fact that literally no one has walked to Hadestown before. There is absolutely every chance he’ll fail, the circumstances are Bad, but he can still hear the stones echoing his music because his mind is in a better place, he believes he isn’t alone. Eurydice, meanwhile, feels alone, because of the circumstances up top, even if she isn’t.