Fun Home
Shows · Fun Home
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel explores her memories of growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, where her charismatic father Bruce ran both the family funeral home and obsessively restored their Victorian house. Through three versions of herself at different ages, Alison pieces together the truth about her closeted father's secret life, her own emerging sexuality, and the tragic connection between her coming out and his…
- Opened
- 2015
- Performances
- 582
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Contemporary
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 2015.
Productions2 on Broadway
| 2015 | Circle in the Square Theatre Original. · Sam Gold | 582 performances · 5 Tony wins |
| 2018 | Transfer Theatre unknown. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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13 passages naming Fun Home, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Jeffrey Magee, ‘From Flatbush to Fun Home: Broadway’s Cozy Cottage Trope,’ keynote address, Putting It Together: Investigating Sources for Musical Theatre Research, 10–12 May 2016. book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p469
In April of 2015, Circle will get its 10th musical: Fun Home by Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron. Notably, it is the first musical at the theater with an all-female writing team. book:untold-stories-of-broadway-volume-2-part-1-the-jennifer-tepper#p254
Fun Home , a coming-of-age musical with a central lesbian character adapted from a graphic novel, will open in spring 2015. book:untold-stories-of-broadway-volume-2-part-1-the-jennifer-tepper#p320
Lesbians received comic but stereotypical depictions in musicals like Nick & Nora (1991) and Legally Blonde (2007). While lesbian representation has demonstrably increased, only a handful of musicals with lesbian protagonists remain, and they are all variations on coming out: The Color Purple, Fun Home (2015), It Shou… book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p165
Best Musical Tony Award Winner Fun Home took the theme of sexual discovery further than any previous musical in a context in which coded references were no longer necessary. book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p167
Part of what made Fun Home so radical on Broadway was how it charted Alison’s awakening of both her sexuality and her gender presentation beginning when she was nine years old. book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p169
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