I think the most impressive framing of Hadestown's success is if "Why We Build the Wall" existed all by itself as a protest song or a "dark anthem" from a concept album or whatever it would be an all time Hall of Fame accomplishment But there's a whole show just as good as it
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(I do really like the Philosophy Tube episode that introduced this song to do many Internet kids but I wish Olly had kept more of his affable, calm delivery as the Salesman character in the song rather than transitioning into full stereotypical demagogue)
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(I also think the coolest version of Hermes' lines in "Wait for Me" is Ben Knox Miller's raspy whisper and I think my ideal Hermes would be this rangy, weatherbeaten, slightly creepy old man, rather than Chris Sullivan's lovable uncle or André De Shields' dignified grandfather)
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