{"id":3072,"date":"2023-06-06T16:40:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":".\/\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2023-11-02T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T17:00:26","slug":"what-were-enjoying-epic-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":".\/\/what-were-enjoying-epic-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Enjoying – EPIC: The Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Our Chair took to the keyboard in June to talk about one of his latest obsessions – EPIC: The Musical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In January 2021, Jorge Herrans-Rivera announced that he was making a musical<\/a> adapting Homer\u2019s Odyssey<\/em>. Anyone who knows me knows that if there are three things I love, they\u2019re Greek mythology, musicals, and musicals about Greek mythology. I was already simping over Hadestown<\/em>, and then EPIC<\/em><\/a> entered the picture<\/p>\n\n\n\n EPIC<\/em> is split into nine sagas, with two currently available digitally as concept albums: The Troy Saga<\/em> and The Cyclops Saga<\/em>. Through these albums, we\u2019re given a sense of the characters – heroes and gods alike – through musical cues and techniques, recurring melodies, and lyrics that – as the kids say – slap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We kick off The Troy Saga<\/em> with The Horse and the Infant<\/em>, launching us into the invasion of Troy and introducing listeners to EPIC<\/em>\u2019s hero, Odysseus. When the battle is won (spoiler alert for The Iliad<\/em> and The Odyssey<\/em> I guess?), Odysseus and his 600 men begin their journey home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Troy Saga<\/em> introduces us to Athena and Polites as two significant relationships in the story, and through the Lotus Eaters sets us up for The Cyclops Saga<\/em>, and the first major monster of the story. This coincides with the introduction of Odysseus\u2019s pride as a significant theme in the longer narrative, and as well as the ruthlessness that\u2019s required of him in the adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I now eagerly await the next concept albums, with the Ocean<\/em> and Circe<\/em> Sagas finishing recording in early February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our Chair took to the keyboard in June to talk about one of his latest obsessions – EPIC: The Musical. In January 2021, Jorge Herrans-Rivera announced that he was making a musical adapting Homer\u2019s Odyssey. Anyone who knows me knows that if there are three things I love, they\u2019re Greek mythology, musicals, and musicals about… Continue reading What We\u2019re Enjoying – EPIC: The Musical<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-were-enjoying","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n