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Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It blends versions of two ancient Greek myths, Orpheus and Eurydice and Hades and Persephone, to explore enduring and contemporary themes such as poverty.
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00:00Orpheus was a poor boy, but he had a gift to give.
00:05He could make you see how the world could be, in spite of the way that it is.
00:11And Eurydice was a young girl, but she'd seen how the world was when she fell.
00:18She fell in spite of herself, in love with Orpheus.
00:36But Hades gave her a choice to make, a ticket to the underworld.
00:53Just how far would you go from her?
01:02Orpheus was a young girl, but she'd seen how the world could be, in spite of the world.
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