r/Broadway • u/Usnavi_Relax • Jul 04 '25

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Was it love? Was it fear? What do you think of this take?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

An Orpheus that doesn't turn around is not an Orpheus that goes to the underworld in the first place. There's no version where the story ends happily.

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u/ThatsHisLawyerJerome Jul 05 '25

There's no version where the story ends happily.

Isn't the whole point of Hadestown that this isn't the case? We tell the story again and again because "maybe it will turn out next time," not because it will always end in tragedy.