Welcome to our Community Playdate for March 2020! Community Playdates are a monthly get together of our community where we will choose a game, movie, TV show, music album, etc. to experience together, and we’ll share our thoughts with one another in a designated thread for the duration of the month.
Our March poll was inconclusive and a bit stymied (hence the push back to April), but we chose to use the two tied winners: Butterfly Soup and the original Broadcast cast recording of Hadestown, suggested by @Alex and @tale, respectively. Use this thread to discuss either selection, or both!
Butterfly Soup
A visual novel about gay asian girls playing baseball and falling in love.
Features:
- harold they’re lesbians*
- 3-4 hours long
- memes
*except not really one of them is bi
tw for brief written depictions of parental emotional+physical abuse (no visuals), ableist slurs
How to Play
Butterfly Soup is available as a name your price game on itch.io. It works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can support the developer by paying for the game and/or purchasing bonus art for $5.
Hadestown
Hadestown is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, where Orpheus goes to the underworld to rescue his fiancée Eurydice.
The Broadway production opened to critical acclaim and received numerous awards and nominations. At the 73rd Tony Awards, Hadestown received a total of 14 nominations (the most for the evening) and won eight of them, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
How to Listen
The Hadestown cast recording is available to stream on the following platforms:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1J1yxODbNlqKbwRqJxYJUP
- Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/1466351033?app=music&ign-mpt=uo=4
- Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/Hadestown-Original-Broadway-Cast-Recording/dp/B07SHJR3KN
Streaming via Spotify is free (ad-supported).
