Hadestown Cast - "Why We Build The Wall" [LIVE @ SiriusXM] 

note for anyone unfamiliar with the musical: while it it’s very relevant to america’s current political climate, it was not written as a result of it. it was written a decade before the wall was even proposed!! just pointing this out because a lot of people seem to think this musical was written to be completely political when really, the politics are subtle in the show and aren’t as dense as it seems to be!

hades: *_why do we build the wall, my children, my children?_* reeve: i’m not included in that

Patrick Page's voice is just RIDICULOUS (in the best way possible)! AMAZING!

I Swear to god, Patrick Page’s voice just keeps getting deeper. In like a year or too he’s all he’s gonna sound like a low unintelligible growls but still sound as good as he’s always been

2:35 Hades: what do we have that they should want? Orpheus: A part of song to sing?

heart eyes for reeve just sitting there the whole time

So Reeve just dresses like that?

"What do we have that they should want?" "WE HAVE A WALL!" Never fails to make me laugh

Patrick Page...what a VOICE!! ! Sooooo dark and deep! We met Patrick outside the stage door last month after a performance of Hadestown. One of the most gracious and kind actors on Broadway! He took time to meet with each of us. This man is a Broadway treasure!!

I love how circular the logic is in this song. Amazing lyric writing.

That is a BASS! And an extremely relevant song.

I love that in these performances where they don't have the full cast and need the principles to do the ensemble parts, Reeve is never seen singing this song. Because Orpheus would never. He's staying in character even when he's not in character. So good.

Andre’s shoes *enough said*

Eva sings so nonchalantly. Its incredible, really.

Everyone is talking about the Hades part (understandably), but like Andres voice in the chorus gives me the shivers

oooh for some reason I love the blend of Eva, Anais and Andre's voices together ... kinda throaty but soothing

i love reeve just chillin

I love how they all seem to be in the clothes their characters might wear in the 21st century

His VOICE! I’ve never heard this song before and it literally gave me chills. Damn.

I had minimal preparation about the show before I saw it. Bought the tickets right after the show won the Tony as a gift for my wife's birthday. This song blew me away.

Just the way Patrick breaths in at 0:20 literally gives me life!

Reeve straight up vibing with that bandana

"Why do we gargle sand, my children? Why do we gargle sand?" "Don't you understand? We gargle sand, 'cause it makes us sound like a wise old man, my children."

I actually sang along with Hades part and it turned out pretty decent. However, now my throat feels like I ate a bowl of nails...

Remember when this song was a metaphor?

Took some digging around to figure it out - the guy at the keyboard is Liam Robinson, who is the musical director of the show.

It's funny how they all have differently colored hair: grey, white, brown, black, blonde and... non-existent.

where did amber gray go tho

2:42 Eva’s singing gives me heavenly chills EVERY TIME

I am so in love with this performance, I think half of the views are from me alone.

This feels like a weirdly soft version.

André is a treasure, Patrick’s voice is absolutely haunting, and I’ve always loved Reeve Carney. What a great cast and musical.

This is the longest example of circular logic I've ever heard. For those who don't know what that is, a simple example is saying that animals that are cold blooded like to sunbathe, and cats like to sunbathe, so cats are cold blooded because cold blooded animals like to sunbathe. The example I gave is a two-step circle, this song has six steps. Why do we build the wall? To keep out the enemy, who is poverty (and by extension, those in poverty), we keep them out because they want something we have that they don't, which is work, the work being the wall we're building to keep out the enemy, and so on and so on. The logic trail doesn't reach an end point of evidence, eventually the evidence is the point the arguer is trying to make.

God, I wish I could sing that deep and still sound that clear.

Does he just.. sound like that? holy shit

I first heard this song as a cover version at the end of the Philosophy Tube video "Steve Bannon" - one of my favorite RU-vidrs, and one of my favorite videos by him (introducing one of the most chilling villain characters ever, "The Arsonist") And today, I get this video in my Facebook feed - just as I learn that Steve Bannon has been arrested. Coincidence? Probably.

the technical director at my school knew anais when they worked in vermont together, and he saw her developing hadestown. i can't help but think he remembered this song during the election.

"What's down below ?" "The railroad tracks" "And below the tracks" "Hadestown" "And below Hadestown ?" "The planet's crust" "And below the crust ?" "The planet's mantle" "And below ? What lies at the very bottom, down the deepest well ?" "Patrick Page's voice"

I just imagine hades doing a radio speech and he’s re motivating the workers, and the response is them singing the only thing they can remember since they’re dead, that they build the wall to free them from poverty

My Christmas tree fell on top of me while I was watching this,,, I just wanted yall to know

#HadestownFortheTony

In every Great musical, there's a moment where things switch from good to great, and that was this moment in this musical for me. The players in Albuquerque nailed it.

Just saw this show last night at Bass Concert Hall in Austin, TX. Among the very best shows I've seen at Bass over decades. They sent us the A Team thank you!

Apple needs to make a Siri voice with this dude

Am I the only one who keeps staring at Eva’s t-shirt lol

"We build the wall to keep us free" has very much Berlin wall vibes.

Look how far Patrick Page has come: from the role of Lumiére (where he and future wife Paige Davis aka Babette met), to Scar, to Judge Claude Frollo, now, this.

Oh my god that voice!!! Wish I could have a voice that amazing.

So good. Instant classic!

That's a voice that commands respect, even if you know he's talking shite.

When I went to see Hadestown earlier this week, we had Alex Puette understudying for Hades and he was absolutely fantastic - although Patrick Gage's gravelly voice is crazy cool, Alex Puette will remain the Hades that I remember for years to come.

haunting

Just came back from New York. Great performance!! Great songs, great singers

That bass voice... good in a way different than the late Leonard Cohen's, but every bit as compelling.

Fav song from Hadestown

Eva on that last note tho.

Loved this musical!!

Great tune love it 😃

Oh my gosh! For the first time I heard this on WERU an independent radio channel near bar Harbor, Maine. I knew that I wanted to hear or see the musical and had heard a smidge about it but did not know that that song until now was from that. I hope it comes to Bangor or here. How I was struck by listening to the song on the radio today during the rain on a dusky dreary ride home. Awesomely beautiful awesomely thoughtful.

goosebumps....just goosebumps.

There is so much irony in this song, it tears me up.

Just so folks know, even if not intended by the lyricist, there have been walls in Israel and at the US Southern Border before Trump and before this musical. It's key to our Imperial violence.

Okay but the comments section is almost as entertaining as this performance. Almost.

True, pure, genius

Patrick Page is a king! Love this song!

I would love to hear understudy Timothy R. Hughes as Hades some day.

Patrick eats gravel and cigars for breakfast

I remember seeing Anais perform this live in St. Louis when she had just been signed to righteous babe.

Eva voice is just insanee

omg is andre wearing his character shoes

I'd pay any amount just to hear patrick page say "Finish him"

that's just insane. wow

This guy should be on the Oktavism channel - fascinating voice!

Ah that’s brilliant

Man, I didn't think anyone could ever come close to the awesomeness of Tony Jay, but Peter Paige! Woo!

This off the chains!😲

Это просто шикарно. Нет слов!

Hell is a state of mind, heaven is reality itself -CS Lewis.

Reminds me of the version from the concept album!

Genial!

i really love Andre

Be careful with matches

I wish this version was on the album

THE SILVER BOOOOOTS! I’m gonna miss him as Hermes

Why do we build the wall? 2021 me: BECAUSE OF TITANS?

I say, you wouldn't by any chance happen to have...a match?

How are this musical's main male voices both out of my vocal range?

2:08, I'm sure it's just how it *looks* but the keyboardist literally looks like the physical embodiment of hating your job, being totally exasperated by it but resigned to your frustrating reality. Again, I sincerely doubt it's true but it sure does looks like it in that moment 🙄😉😆

this song really describe paradis island:)

Reeve dresses like Orpheus

Fuck i love this song!! Mainly because of Patrick Page's voice 😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩

Does anybody know where I can find the sheet music for this?

Hades:] Why do we build the wall My children, my children? Why do we build the wall? [Company:] Why do we build the wall? We build the wall to keep us free That's why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free [Hades:] How does the wall keep us free My children, my children? How does the wall keep us free? [Company:] How does the wall keep us free? The wall keeps out the enemy And we build the wall to keep us free That's why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free [Hades:] Who do we call the enemy My children, my children? Who do we call the enemy? [Company:] Who do we call the enemy? The enemy is poverty And the wall keeps out the enemy And we build the wall to keep us free That's why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free [Hades:] Because we have and they have not My children, my children Because they want what we have got [Company:] Because we have and they have not Because they want what we have got The enemy is poverty And the wall keeps out the enemy And we build the wall to keep us free That's why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free [Hades:] What do we have that they should want My children, my children? What do we have that they should want? [Eurydice:] What do we have that they should want? We have a wall to work upon We have work and they have none [Hades:] And our work is never done! My children, my children! And the war is never won [Hades & company:] The enemy is poverty And the wall keeps out the enemy And we build the wall to keep us free That's why we build the wall We build the wall to keep us free We build the wall to keep us free... [Hermes:] Then Hades told Eurydice: [Hades:] There are papers to be signed Step into my office [Hermes:] And he closed the door behind Now, a lot can happen behind closed doors; that's for sure, brother, that's a fact! But a lot can happen on the factory floor, when the foreman turns his back [Persephone:] Anybody want a drink?

do you have a match?

'You know what would sound good?' 'What?' 'If we turned the piano up way too loud and made the guitar almost inaudible'

King fritz

Agência my music teacher put this songe evebody start laugh Butke like the song .

So they didn't wanna include the ensemble in an ensemble number?

Patrick Page should be Tom Waits in a biopic

PARADIS ISLAND?