There’s no video, but Hadestown instagram account shared in a live video the last curtain call of André as Hermes and he sang “Believe in Yourself”, before that they announced today (May 29th) is officially André De Shields Day hopefully I’ll get the video to share with you. It was quite emotional and powerful ✨
Update: The video is already in their feed, I’ll share the link and try to download the video later, is almost 17 minutes long.
smth i really appreciate abt hadestown’s eurydice is that it gives its heroine more agency than her original mythology counterpart, but it doesn’t go the “girlboss who doesn’t need a man” route that seems so popular w a lot of modern retellings of any myth. eurydice feels more distinctly more human in this retelling, in the sense that she actually gets to make her own choices and have her own motivations. but it’s precisely because she’s human that she can still make the wrong choice. and even when she makes the wrong choice, the show is very clear about the fact that eurydice is not the one you’re rooting against here.
maybe it’s just me, but i feel like an inferior girlboss version of hadestown would have eurydice staying in hadestown be her happy ending because she’s an ~independent working girl~ and i am SOOOO glad that hadestown doesn’t go down that route lmao. all this to say, hadestown’s eurydice is genuinely my favorite modern interpretation of a classical mythology character (esp of a female character) because the story isn’t shifted to make her a complete villain or attempt to spin her entrapment in hadestown as empowering
im costume designing hadestown for a class which is really exciting for me because ive had designs for this show in mind since i was in high school. i thought id share some of them!!
