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Epic: The Musical (stylized as EPIC) is a nine-part series of concept albums (referred to as "sagas") with music and lyrics by Jorge Rivera-Herrans. A sung-through adaptation of Homer's Odyssey inspired by musical theater, it tells the story of Odysseus as he tries to return from Troy to Ithaca after the ten-year-long Trojan War.
Mangano also plays a double role in the film as Ulysses' faithful wife Penelope. In the 1968 European television miniseries The Odyssey, Circe is portrayed by French actress Juliette Mayniel. In the 1983 film Hercules, Circe is played by Mirella D'Angelo and appears first as an old woman. Transformed by drinking the hero's blood, she helps him ...
Three ancient plays about Circe have been lost: the work of the tragedian Aeschylus and of the 4th-century BC comic dramatists Ephippus of Athens and Anaxilas. The first told the story of Odysseus' encounter with Circe. Vase paintings from the period suggest that Odysseus' half-transformed animal-men formed the chorus in place of the usual ...
The plot of Odysseus Acanthoplex was derived from Telegony, part of the Epic Cycle. [6] As background to the plot of the play, Homer's Odyssey tells of Odysseus spending a year with the goddess Circe. [7] In the version of the myth that Odysseus Acanthoplex was based on, Odysseus and Circe had a son from this dalliance, Telegonus.
York made her Broadway debut as Mallory in the musical City of Angels, and her performance won critical acclaim.Other stage credits include: Fantine in Les Misérables; The Younger Woman in Stephen Sondheim's Putting It Together, which earned her a Drama Desk Award nomination; Norma Cassidy in Victor/Victoria, for which she won a Drama Desk Award; Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel; Lili ...
Ross’ team describes “Wild Reverence” as “‘Circe’ meets ‘Kushiel’s Dart’ by way of ‘Divine Rivals.’” The book has an “epic, but intimate feel,” Ross tells USA TODAY.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (German: Der kaukasische Kreidekreis) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than the baby's wealthy biological parents.
Sony Pictures’ faith-focused label Affirm Films and Monarch Media have launched a trailer for Christmas musical film “Journey to Bethlehem.” The film marks the feature directorial debut of ...