[vid] Wait for Me (Hades)
Feb. 5th, 2022 21:20![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladysource: Hades (video game 2018)
audio: Hadestown Off-Broadway cast, "Wait for Me"
length: 3:24
download: 211MB on MediaFire
summary: Wait for me, I'm coming too
AO3 page | tumblr post | YouTube link
Lyrics on AZ Lyrics
I saw Hadestown at the NYTW in the summer of 2016 and loved it; I saw it on Broadway two years later and honestly didn't love it quite as much. It's still excellent and incredibly moving, but the flashy money sets and above all what they did to the Hermes role when they cast Andre de Shields left me a little cold. Andre de Shields is great, but I don't think he's actually good as Hermes and I do think he was a stunt casting to bring in the punters. Which is a fair choice, but I liked Hermes much better the first time around.
Which is why this is the version of the cast album I have, and though I thought about trying to find a completely different song for this vid, in the end the gravitational pull of the show was too hard to resist and I didn't really try. I wondered whether the contrast between going down to Hades in the song and trying to get up and out in the game would be too much, but people seem to have dealt with that just fine. I was also influenced by this essay from Amal el-Mohtar on the resonances between the show and the game, which I was not very good at playing initially but which I was obsessed with anyway. I picked it up again after making the vid and there are still new lines after getting the secret ending! And I still haven't unlocked all the Erebus content.
audio: Hadestown Off-Broadway cast, "Wait for Me"
length: 3:24
download: 211MB on MediaFire
summary: Wait for me, I'm coming too
AO3 page | tumblr post | YouTube link
Lyrics on AZ Lyrics
I saw Hadestown at the NYTW in the summer of 2016 and loved it; I saw it on Broadway two years later and honestly didn't love it quite as much. It's still excellent and incredibly moving, but the flashy money sets and above all what they did to the Hermes role when they cast Andre de Shields left me a little cold. Andre de Shields is great, but I don't think he's actually good as Hermes and I do think he was a stunt casting to bring in the punters. Which is a fair choice, but I liked Hermes much better the first time around.
Which is why this is the version of the cast album I have, and though I thought about trying to find a completely different song for this vid, in the end the gravitational pull of the show was too hard to resist and I didn't really try. I wondered whether the contrast between going down to Hades in the song and trying to get up and out in the game would be too much, but people seem to have dealt with that just fine. I was also influenced by this essay from Amal el-Mohtar on the resonances between the show and the game, which I was not very good at playing initially but which I was obsessed with anyway. I picked it up again after making the vid and there are still new lines after getting the secret ending! And I still haven't unlocked all the Erebus content.