Can’t wait for 2026 to watch Christopher Nolan’s version of the Odyssey?

Don’t worry, I got you covered! 

Embark with me on Odysseus’ journey home with EPIC: The Musical. 

Written and produced by Jorge Rivera-Herrans, EPIC is a loose musical adaptation of Homer’s famous book. Composed of 40 songs with a storyline inspired by video games and anime, this is not your average concept album. It is divided into 9 sagas (chapters), with each song conquering your heart with its epic musical composition and attaching characters. 

 Nothing was left by chance by the author, with every character having their own musical signature: Athena has the piano; Odysseus has the guitar, with a melody that changes depending on his mood and intentions; and for Circe, we have strings that play a lot of Staccato and pizzicato notes. Additionally, the lyrics are full of “easter eggs” and references that align perfectly together. 

We follow Odysseus shortly before they lure Troy with the giant horse up until he reunites with Penelope, his wife, twenty years after he left. From the first music notes, Rivera-Herrans takes us back to Ancient Greece, where magic and divine intervention are the keys to success. However, be aware that in this version, Odysseus is far from the person we know. He is willing to do everything to go back to his wife and son. Even though he is morally ambiguous, he stays faithful to his wife, unlike most versions where he is seduced by the two mythical figures Circe and Calypso. 

During his journey back to his homeland, Odysseus was leading a fleet of 600 men who were trying to survive to go back home. He slowly loses his fleet and friends but keeps pushing and decides that, to honor them, he needs to remember them. He becomes a warrior of the mind, one of Athena’s protégés, but they part ways when Odysseus refuses to kill the cyclops, Polyphemus. Doing this, Poseidon targets him with a storm that drifts them far from home. Luck ran out for them, and they washed out on Circe’s Island. There, he fights the witch to get his fleet back, and Circe reveals that there are other ways to get back to Ithaca. Odysseus’s katabasis starts when he realizes that he is no longer himself and that he needs to become a monster to get back home. He ends up avenging his crew and himself with six hundred strikes that leave Poseidon powerless. Meanwhile, Penelope sets up an impossible challenge for her suitors. After killing all the suitors that were planning to eliminate his son and wife, Odysseus reunites with Telemachus, and he asks his wife if she would fall in love with him again despite the man he became.