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So just how far would you go for her?
I just heard from my mother that Anaïs Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin's Hadestown has just won Best Musical at the Tony Awards, plus Best Director for Chavkin, Best Original Score for Mitchell, several technical awards, and Best Featured Actor for André de Shields as Hermes.
I have not seen the Broadway production. But I loved the show when I saw it off-Broadway in 2016 and I loved it in 2010 when it was a CD of a folk opera that I did not yet realize was a concept album, although I hoped even then to see it onstage. "In true epic fashion," I wrote, "I'd love to see it reperformed." And it was, and I heard about it, and I got to see one version, and now there's another, and it will keep going, hand to hand, mouth to ear, because that's how the folk tradition—the epic tradition—works.
(I can even feel a little as though I helped, because I know for a fact that some of the friends who wrote about seeing the Broadway version were the friends who learned about the album from me nine years ago. Ultimate credit goes to my mother, who heard Mitchell talking about her Orpheus and Eurydike retelling on one of the folk radio stations and correctly discerned I would love it. Grassroots, people! And the dark earth under all.)
It makes me happy.
I have not seen the Broadway production. But I loved the show when I saw it off-Broadway in 2016 and I loved it in 2010 when it was a CD of a folk opera that I did not yet realize was a concept album, although I hoped even then to see it onstage. "In true epic fashion," I wrote, "I'd love to see it reperformed." And it was, and I heard about it, and I got to see one version, and now there's another, and it will keep going, hand to hand, mouth to ear, because that's how the folk tradition—the epic tradition—works.
(I can even feel a little as though I helped, because I know for a fact that some of the friends who wrote about seeing the Broadway version were the friends who learned about the album from me nine years ago. Ultimate credit goes to my mother, who heard Mitchell talking about her Orpheus and Eurydike retelling on one of the folk radio stations and correctly discerned I would love it. Grassroots, people! And the dark earth under all.)
It makes me happy.
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You are the start of all the people we know knowing about Hadestown. WE KNEW IT WHEN--and we watched it rise. SO HAPPY FOR THIS SHOW AND FOR ANAIS!
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I remember you writing about that concert! That was the first reperformance I knew about.
I am just so happy for this recognition!
I don't usually get to come in on the ground floor of a hit. It's fun!
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I try not to feel possessive about other people's art, because I have nothing to do with it beyond listening to it and talking about it, but I really wanted Hadestown to win and I didn't know its odds and it makes so happy that it did: it was well deserved: it is exactly the sort of thing that should win Tonys and doesn't always: it's doing what its story is supposed to do.
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That is the correct icon. I just went with my classical default.