Prologue lyrics
by Original Off Broadway Cast of Penelope
[ALL]
Sing me muse, that tale of old
The far-famed Odyssey
It wasn't quite as we've been told
The way it came to be
[EIGHT]
Odysseus, King of Ithaca
Left for the Trojan War
[EURYCLEIA]
Left young Penelope in charge
[EIGHT]
Not what she bargained for
[ANTINOUS]
Her husband gone for thirteen years
Bold suitors came to call
[TELEMACHUS AND DAPHNE]
Penelope knew he'd return
And so she had to stall
[PENELOPE]
She had to fool them all