Orpheus

Also known as: The Poet

A poor poet boy with a melody that can bring spring back to a broken world, who walks into Hadestown to sing his wife free. The musical tells you from the start that he turns around, and you hope anyway.

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Orpheus/Eurydice

800 works

Hadestown retells the oldest sad song: a poor poet writing the melody that will fix the world, and the hungry girl who signs herself to Hadestown while he's not looking. The show's power is that everyone knows he'll turn around, and the company sings it anyway.

Other Hadestown Characters

Eurydice

2k works

A hungry, hard-bitten runaway who marries a poet in springtime and signs her life to Hadestown when winter comes. Her ticket down isn't a snakebite here, it's an empty stomach, and that choice haunts every reprise.

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