Would you know it was a rose if it wasn't called so?

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So the answer to how I am doing lately is "really, really badly," but on Wednesday I am heading to New York City to see Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown at the New York Theatre Workshop at the invitation of ladymondegreen. I have been wanting to see this music staged since 2010 and I am looking forward to it. I also plan to hit up the Strand. Music, books, myths: these things are good.

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You were the one who introduced me to Hadestown--you were the start of it for everyone in our acquaintance who knows about it. I think it's wonderful that you're getting to see it; I know both tithenai and csecooney have said that it exceeded their very high expectations.

I was [am?] a little anxious that they've included more story, more focus on the Hades-Persephone relationship,** but Claire assures me it's well done and makes for great parallels with the Orpheus-Eurydice story.

Needless to say, I am very, very, VERY much looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the performance.


**Sometimes less is more. So that's my anxiety.

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You were the one who introduced me to Hadestown--you were the start of it for everyone in our acquaintance who knows about it.

I am honored to have been Patient Zero for this particular myth-spread. I'm just so glad the music made it to the stage, which it always sounded like it was meant for; I am sorry that I have never had the chance to see Greg Brown as Hades, but I look forward to finding out what the songs I know so well sound like in different voices, which is in many ways what the epic tradition is all about.

Needless to say, I am very, very, VERY much looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the performance.

I'll try! I am behind on everything I want to write about.

Sometimes less is more. So that's my anxiety.

(Legit.)

[edit] I thought it worked beautifully.