Hades dog costume12/28/2023 ![]() The Charmer: Pre-Broadway, Orpheus was depicted as a confident, smooth ladies' man who easily impressed Eurydice and decried the idea of working in Hadestown when Hades arrived, to which Hermes and Persephone agreed.Character Development: Played for tragedy in the Broadway version Orpheus starts off as a naive optimist who hopes the world can be better than it is, but his time in Hadestown leads him to become more cynical, doubt Hades' promise, and eventually turn around.Break Them by Talking: He's no match for Hades or his workers in a fight, but his song moves the Lord of the Dead's heart and helps him remember his love for Persephone and contrasting it with the man he's become. ![]() Break the Cutie: Poor guy just wants to finish his song to make spring come again, and he loses his wife to Hadestown for it twice.Beautiful Singing Voice: He is the son of a Muse, therefore a demigod, and has a divinely gifted musical talent and voice that even moves Hades.Almighty Janitor: The Broadway staging of the show plays up Orpheus' humility, by initially presenting him in the lowly position of a waiter serving the Chorus hanging out in the restaurant in the waiting area of Hermes' train station.the original concept version of "Epic I" has Orpheus know the whole story of Hades and Persephone already as opposed to Hermes having taught it to him). This led to Hermes becoming an increasingly important character, to be the one who explains things Orpheus doesn't understand, to the point of them almost being a Decomposite Character (i.e. Adaptation Personality Change: One steady change that's progressed through every version of the show is making Orpheus less and less of a confident, seductive ladies' man and more and more of an Endearingly Dorky head-in-the-clouds naive boy.Adaptational Jerkass: Mildly so, he's still a good and kind man, but his preoccupation with his song instead of providing for his wife is what drives Eurydice to Hadestown after being promised a better life there by Hades, unlike the original where she simply dies at their wedding after being bitten by a snake.Adaptational Backstory Change: This version of Orpheus is a relatably hardscrabble orphan, rather than being the son of a king of Thrace (or of the god Apollo), who was raised as a charitable act by Hermes rather than by his birth mother (who is still implied to be the Muse Calliope).Orpheus is kind and naive, and while he means well, he has a tendency to fixate on his music above all else. A romantic poet and musician who is working on a masterpiece to bring back spring. The son of a Muse, Orpheus was abandoned as a child and raised by Hermes. ![]()
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