What about the work you don’t see me do?
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What about the work you don’t see me do?
You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.
I know that Hadestown is—and this goes for any creative endeavor, I reckon—so much more than what meets the eye or the ear. What is seen and heard onstage is the blooming flower, but most of the plant is underground. Every line, verse, or chorus—every idea any of us who worked on it ever had, even the ones that never saw the light of day—they’re do
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