Ok, so now I'm determined to draw more of the Hadestown x Welcome Home collab after @dollpuppets contribution (I'm still geeking out about it!!!) and finishing a large Dunkin coffee.

So now here's Julie Joyful as Persephone! Sorry if the tongue looks a little weird.

Up next: Sally Starlet as Hades

Also, I'm gonna infodump a lot of ideas I have for this AU.

Hadestown lineup because I was lucky enough to go see it in ny a couple weeks back and I've been listening to the songs on loop ever since

bonus sketches:

about Persephone's cut verse in Chant II.

i got to see hadestown on the west end and all i have to say is AAAA. i liked the original broadway cast so much i didn't think anything else could compare to me, but omg they were all amazing and maybe it's a bias from seeing it live vs seeing broadway through recordings, but i actually enjoyed them so much more. i think what helped is i felt a lot more for donal's orpheus, whereas reeve's never managed to really put at my heartstrings.

okayokay what i have to list out loved (going to try and go through the show chronologically):

la barrie's hermes using no titles and they/them pronouns. the lyrics were changed to reflect this eg "excuse me, hermes" instead of "mister hermes" at the beginning of 'wait for me', and "feathers on their feet" instead of "feathers on his feet" in 'road to hell'.

the cast keeping their own accents. it's not often in uk theatre to hear british regional accents, even if the actor has or had that accent. so hearing a nothern accent from eurydice was aaaa. as a northerner it made me really happy. i'm not sure if that's grace's real accent or not but aa it just made .

donál keeping his irish accent too. and the chemistry between his orpheus and grace's eurydice was adorable.

hermes slowly kissing persephone hand during 'our lady of the underground'.

PERSEPHONE didn't think I could love anyone more than grey but omg. i've never loved "our lady of the underground" but I do now, the way gloria performed it and this one long belting note she did while bending over crazy far backwards aaa. and at one point while dancing she acted like she'd gone too hard and pulled her back and got stuck, but then very smoothly went into leaning down towards the audience and singing directly at people in the front rows.

wasn't 100% sold on hades at first since his voice isn't as deep as what I'm used too (used to listening to page as hades), but after "i conduct the electric city" and the lights went out and when they came back on there was a single silly spotlight on hades was stood leaning against the door checking his nails all sultry like. his acting was so different from what I'm used too, more energetic and more... playful? i'm not sure if that's the right word but i can't think of anything else. and less cold and stern than page but I ended up really enjoying him. i've got two very different versions of hades i love now.

new lyrics in epic three, "what has become of the heart of that man" has been replaced with new lyrics. i think "man with his arms outreached" has reverted back to pre-broadway "man with his hat in his hands" but i'll be honest me memory of what the new lyrics are is not great.

i cried when hades and persephone danced. both of them were crying. and when they finished dancing he sobbed and crumpled into her arms and she stroked his head and back and held him the whole time orpheus and eurydice sang "promises"

hades breaking it down during the dance, doing silly dance moves and making persphone laugh, and then she joins in and does his silly dance moves with him 10/10 people supporting their partners silly dance moves.

hades "i don't know" answer to if orpheus and eurydice can go... i'm used to patrick page's grave, defeated "i don't know" and here instead you could really see the inner conflict and he was holding hands with persephone and when he said it she angrily let go of his hand and he had his little "his kiss the riot" freak out.

orpheus and hades handshake during the wait for me reprise aaaa

Persephone: And in the meantime up above, the harvest dies and people starve, oceans rise and overflow...it ain't right and it ain't natural!

Hades:

eurydice and persephone from a hadestown au thats been in my mind for a while, set in in the first half of 20th century mexico, and if that sounds vague its because it is. im still not sure which decade exactly, i was thinking mexican revolution first but i love the aesthetic of the golden age of mexican cinema so much

i wanted to guide myself by 'times being what they are, hard and getting harder all the time' but that could literally be all of them

𝕻𝕰𝕽𝕾𝕰𝕻𝕳𝕺𝕹𝕰!

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They danced

And Hades and Persephone They took each other's hands And brother, you know what they did? They danced

and without glowing :))

In fact, I'm incredibly glad that I got to finish this art series.

I spent hours on this. Please laugh.

Persephone 🌺

I love Hadestown! and Persephone is probably one of my favorite Greek goddess in any media. This is a re sew as I made the main cast like 4 years ago and then after I did some other re sews and my wicked costume dolls, I really wanted to re do her. I think might re do hades later.

I love all the design details in Hadestown so much, and one of the things I love about the costumes is the little detail of how they are wearing something red and it as if that item shows how they love. The handkerchief, a bracelet, flowers, and the back of Hades vast is red. I just thought that this is something special as Orpheus show his love out right, Eurydice hide it as her coat covor her bracelet for most of the time, Persephone show her love in what she love as it her flowers, and for Hades you know it there but it just hidden. I just like this little hidden metaphor as you really have to look for it. And it also give more meaning to the costume and a better appreciation for the costume and who ever did them.

Also it breaks my heart when she starts singing with Hades in Wait for Me and the little detail of Hades looking back too her. And them dancing!

[ID: The picture is a felt doll that is the shape of a gingerbread men with a big circle head she is Persephone From Hadestown. This is the Amber Gray version. She have tan felt for skin, and wavy curly brown hair that hangs over her left shoulder. In her hair ahe have green and orange feathers and red pink flowers. She have on black leggings/shoes. And she in a green dress that have a sweetheart neckline. The skirt is ruffled with the sleeves going to her elbows and big ruffles over her shoulders. And she have on a black choker.:ID]

The body of [How Long?] remains nearly untouched after all these years, but the intro scene changed many times as I tried to contextualize what was happening in this dense, poetic argument with a rather ambiguous outcome. In an early workshop, I tried this sung Persephone solo, an appeal to Hermes. - Anaïs Mitchell, Working on a Song.

I was watching Hadestown last night and had a revelation. [Alt text: A picture of Hades, an old white man in a pinstripe suit, at the forefront, with Persephone and Orpheus in the background, slightly blurry. Next to Hades is a Tweet from Elon Musk saying " "Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse" should filed be listed among "Reasons that Western Civilisation died" " . At the bottom right, over Persephone, is a tweet from Grimes saying "Is the ex-wife destroying Western Civilisation in the room with us right now?" ]

Had one of those "how did I not realize it sooner?" moments, but Orpheus gives a toast to Persephone, and then in the end, Persephone gives a toast to Orpheus. Everything in this show comes around full circle!

more hadestown mexican au persephone!! i love her my unstable old lady🫶🫶🫶🫶

i did some tweaks to her design on both her younger and older version. in this au, hadestown takes place in a mexican revolution-esque era

Been a while, but Hadestown at Närcon 23 ✨

Our Lady of the Underground

Hades, my husband, Hades, my light Hades, my darkness

I continue fixing on Hadestown with Persephone.This is a continuation of the previous hadestown art. Maybe I'll draw one more picture, but I'm not sure.