Grace McLean Performs 'Penelope' Live at Joe's Pub

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The full album, featuring the show’s Richard Rodgers Award-winning folk-pop score, will be available on Friday, July 17.

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The tile song, “Penelope,” from Penelope: Live at Joe’s Pub, starring Grace McLean , is available to stream or download today, Friday, June 12. The full album, featuring the show’s Richard Rodgers Award-winning folk-pop score, will be available on Friday, July 17. Penelope features music and lyrics by Alex Bechtel, and book by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean , and Eva Steinmetz. The album is produced by Alex Bechtel, Grace McLean , and Eva Steinmetz.

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Penelope will be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer, with McLean in the title role, from August 5 to August 30. Tickets are available HERE .

Penelope waited twenty years for Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. Now she’s ready to share her side of the story – but she’s going to need a drink first. Sharp, funny and unexpectedly moving, this is Penelope’s Odyssey.

Penelope is inspired by the composer’s experience of being forced to quarantine in separate cities from his romantic partner during the COVID pandemic. This musical for one actor and a five-piece band uses folk-pop songs, irreverent comedy, poetic physical gesture, and stirring instrumental pieces to tell the story of a day in the life of Penelope of Ithaca, stuck waiting for Odysseus to return.

After acclaimed productions at Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Signature Theatre in Washgingon DC, Theatre Horizon/Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and the Ancram Center for the Arts, the creators of Penelope held three concerts at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater to record a live cast album of the musical, starring Grace McLean in the title role, directed by Eva Steinmetz, and with Alex Bechtel at the piano. Penelope is available for licensing through Concord Theatricals .

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Listen-Grace-McLean-Sings-Penelope-From-PENELOPE-LIVE-AT-JOES-PUB-20260612)._