Hadestown: The Musical vs Tell It to the Bees

Hadestown: The Musical has the higher audience score (8.9/10 against 7.5/10 for Tell It to the Bees). Tell It to the Bees is the shorter watch at 1h 46m compared with 2h 21m. Tell It to the Bees is the older of the two (2018 against 2026). Both are drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Hadestown: The Musical posterHadestown: The Musical2026 VS Tell It to the Bees posterTell It to the Bees2018
Hadestown: The MusicalTell It to the Bees
Audience score★ 8.9/10★ 7.5/10
Year20262018
Length2h 21m1h 46m
GenresDrama, Fantasy, RomanceDrama, Romance
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorBrett SullivanAnnabel Jankel
Main castReeve Carney, Patrick Page, Eva Noblezada, André De Shields, Francessca Daniella-BakerAnna Paquin, Steven Robertson, Holliday Grainger, Lauren Lyle, Billy Boyd

Synopsis

Hadestown: The Musical

The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice is intertwined with the complex relationship of Hades and Persephone. Eurydice, struggling with poverty, is lured to the industrial underworld of Hadestown by Hades, while Orpheus, a struggling musician, ventures down below to bring her back. (Filmed live at the Lyric Theatre, London, featuring the core five original Broadway cast members.)

Tell It to the Bees

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

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