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This article is about the Lisa Kron/Jeanine Tesori musical. For the book, see Fun Home.

Fun Home
File:Playbill of Fun Home, Opening Night.jpg
Original Broadway Playbill
MusicJeanine Tesori
LyricsLisa Kron
BookLisa Kron
BasisAlison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home
Productions2013–2014 Off-Broadway
2015 Broadway
Awards2014 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical
2014 Obie Award for Musical Theater
2015 Tony Award for Best Musical
2015 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
2015 Tony Award for Best Original Score

Fun Home is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. The story concerns Bechdel's relationship with her gay father and her attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life. It has been called "the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian".[1] It is the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist.[2]

The musical was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference in 2009 and at the Sundance Theatre Lab and The Public Theater's Public Lab in 2012. It opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in September 2013 to positive reviews. Its run was extended several times, and it ran until January 2014. The Public Theater production of Fun Home was nominated for nine Lucille Lortel Awards (winning three, including Outstanding Musical), two Obie Awards and eight Drama Desk Awards, among others.

The original Broadway production began previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre on March 27, 2015 and opened on April 19, 2015.[3] The original Broadway production was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won five, including Best Musical. The show's cast album received a nomination for the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.

Background

Writer/artist Alison Bechdel's book Fun Home, a memoir in comics format, was published in 2006 to critical acclaim. Its subject is Alison Bechdel's coming of age, with particular emphasis on her relationship to her father, Bruce Bechdel. Alison's coming out as a lesbian is complicated by the revelation that Bruce had also had homosexual relationships, including encounters with males below the age of consent. Four months after Alison comes out to her parents, Bruce is killed by an oncoming truck; although the evidence is equivocal, Alison concludes that he committed suicide.[4]

Bechdel's book was adapted into a musical with book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and music by Jeanine Tesori. Writing in Slate, June Thomas called the play "the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian".[1]

Development and production

The stage adaptation of Fun Home was developed over the course of five years.[5] It was first workshopped as a musical at the Ojai Playwrights Conference in August 2009.[6] A staged reading was performed at The Public Theater in 2011.[5] (Of the cast of that staged reading, only Judy Kuhn and Beth Malone continued in their roles to the full Off-Broadway production.)[7] The musical had another workshop as part of the Sundance Institute's Theater Lab in July 2012, featuring Raul Esparza.[8] Following that it ran for three weeks as part of the Public Theater's Public Lab series in October and November 2012.[9][10] On April 8, 2013, musical selections from the play were performed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Judy Kuhn, David Hyde Pierce and others at an event for the Sundance Institute.[11][12] A final Public Theater workshop was held in May 2013.[5]

The musical's development process entailed extensive changes and rewrites. Beth Malone said that the original workshop script "doesn't resemble this current play at all".[7] In early versions, the production was structured around Bechdel's drawings, but the creators later removed most of this element, save for one image of Bruce and young Alison which is used at the musical's conclusion.[5] Revisions continued through the preview period of the Off-Broadway production, requiring the actors to perform new material every night.[5]

Fun Home premiered Off-Broadway at The Public Theater on September 30, 2013, and opened officially on October 22, 2013.[13][14] Originally scheduled to run through November 3, 2013, the run was extended multiple times and the musical closed on January 12, 2014.[15][16] The Public Theater production was directed by Sam Gold. Sets and costumes were by David Zinn, lighting by Ben Stanton, projections by Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg and choreography by Danny Mefford.[13]

In response to a controversy in which the legislature of South Carolina attempted to financially punish the College of Charleston for choosing the original graphic novel of Fun Home as a reading selection for incoming freshmen, the off-Broadway cast presented a concert of music from the play to a full house in Charleston on April 21, 2014.[17][18][19] Alison Bechdel, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori and musical director Chris Fenwick were in attendance.[17][20][21] A Charleston reviewer described the performance as "breathtaking" and the music as "astounding".[22] Actor Michael Cerveris called the Charleston performances "the clearest proof I've ever experienced ... of theatre's enduring value to society and its exclusive capacity to bring people together".[23]

The musical has been playing at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre, with previews from March 27, 2015, and an official opening on April 19, 2015.[3] Sam Gold, who directed the Public Theater production, also directs the show on Broadway, leading the Off-Broadway production team (including Zinn, Mefford and Stanton).[24] The Off-Broadway cast reprised their roles on Broadway, except for the actors playing Medium Alison, John and Christian Bechdel.[24] In December 2015, eight months after opening on Broadway, the show recouped its capitalization and began to make a profit. Costs for the show were relatively low due to a small cast and orchestra.[25]

The original producers have booked a year long national tour of the show starting in the fall of 2016.[25] The first international production of Fun Home is planned to premiere in Manila, Philippines, in late 2016, with Lea Salonga as Helen.[26][27]

Plot summary

As she works on her memoir in the present day, successful middle-aged cartoonist Alison Bechdel recalls two time periods in her life. The first is her childhood, around age 10 (Small Alison), when she struggles against her father Bruce's obsessive demands and begins to identify her inchoate sexuality. The second is her first year in college (Medium Alison), when she begins her first relationship and comes out of the closet as a lesbian.

Alison remembers herself, as a child, demanding that her father play "airplane" with her, while Bruce sorts through a box of junk and valuables he has salvaged from a barn ("It All Comes Back"). Bruce tells the family that a visitor from the local historical society is coming to see their ornate Victorian home that he has restored, and his wife Helen prepares the house to Bruce's demanding aesthetic standard ("Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue"). In a phone call with her father and a journal entry, Medium Alison expresses her anxiety about starting college ("Not Too Bad"). At the Bechdel Funeral Home, Small Alison and her brothers John and Christian hide in caskets while Bruce talks to Pete, a mourning young man. The children perform an imaginary advertisement for the funeral home ("Come to the Fun Home"). Medium Alison hesitates outside the door of the college's Gay Union, and is flummoxed when she meets Joan, a confident young lesbian. Bruce invites into the house Roy, a young man whom he has hired to do yard work. Bruce begins to seduce Roy in the library while Helen is playing the piano upstairs, trying her best to ignore it ("Helen's Etude").

Medium Alison writes a letter to her parents but does not mention Joan or the Gay Union. Bruce orders Small Alison to put on a dress, but she would rather wear a jean jacket. Bruce tells her that she would be the only girl without a dress and that the other children would laugh at her; she leaves on the dress ("Party Dress"). Medium Alison proudly tells Joan that she has written a letter to her parents telling them that she is a lesbian, but begins to second-guess herself (beginning to wonder if she's asexual) until Joan kisses her. That night, she is excited and joyful at having had sex with Joan ("Changing My Major").

Alison considers the connection between her coming out and her father's death. Small Alison has a homework assignment to draw a map of places her family has lived, but Bruce aggressively takes over, drawing it the way he thinks it should look. Alison realizes that despite having traveled and lived in Europe, her father's place of birth, life, work and death can all be placed in a small circle in Beech Creek, Pennsylvania ("Maps"). Bruce offers a ride and a beer to an underage boy, and it is later implied that they had sexual intercourse. Medium Alison writes to her parents, asking for a response to her coming-out letter. Small Alison watches The Partridge Family, but Bruce switches it off. Small Alison talks to him, and finds out that he is going to see a psychiatrist because he is "bad" and not good like her. Alison expresses annoyance that he lied to her; the actual reason he was going was because he was arrested for what he did to the underage boy. Helen tells Small Alison that the psychiatrist will help her father, and attempts to reassure her. Bruce starts a vicious argument with Helen and breaks several of her possessions along with some library books. Small Alison fantasizes about her family as the happy family singing together on television ("Raincoat of Love").

Alison remembers a time when Bruce took her and her brothers to New York City and stayed in a borrowed Greenwich Village apartment. After a long day, Small Alison, Christian and John settle into sleeping bags. Small Alison wakes up and catches Bruce sneaking out. Bruce sings a lullaby ("Pony Girl"). He reassures his daughter that he's just going out for a paper, but he leaves to go cruising. Medium Alison is angered by a noncommittal letter from Bruce, responding to her coming out. At a luncheonette with her father, Small Alison notices a butch delivery woman and feels an inexplicable kinship with her ("Ring of Keys").

Medium Alison calls home to demand a fuller response from her parents and is astonished when her mother tells her that her father has had sexual relationships with men and boys. Alison explores the tensions her family was under at this time and watches a heated argument between her parents. Medium Alison returns home for vacation with Joan in tow. Helen confesses to Medium Alison her devastation at spending her life in an unfulfilling marriage with Bruce ("Days and Days"). Medium Alison, Joan and Bruce have an unexpectedly pleasant evening around the piano. Bruce asks Alison if she'd like to go for a drive, and (adult) Alison realizes that Medium Alison is gone; she joins her father in the car, breaking the boundaries of time. On the drive, she and Bruce struggle to express themselves to each other ("Telephone Wire").

Bruce, manically engaged in a new restoration project, tries and fails to find a way to hold his life together. He steps in front of a truck and is killed ("Edges of the World"). Alison, newly reconciled to her past, remembers and draws a moment of perfect balance: playing "airplane" with her father, while reminiscing about the past with the other Alisons ("Flying Away").[28][29]

Characters and original casts

The character of Alison Bechdel is portrayed by three actors. 43-year-old "Alison" is the play's narrator who reviews her family and early life, 19-year-old "Medium Alison" who is an Oberlin student discovering her sexuality, and 8-year-old "Small Alison" who is a child struggling against her father's expectations.

The original casts are as follows:

Character Off-Broadway Cast (2013)[14] Broadway Cast (2015)[24][30]
Alison Bechdel Beth Malone
Bruce Bechdel Michael Cerveris
Helen Bechdel Judy Kuhn
Small Alison Sydney Lucas
Medium Alison Alexandra Socha Emily Skeggs
Christian Bechdel Griffin Birney Oscar Williams
John Bechdel Noah Hinsdale Zell Morrow
Joan Roberta Colindrez
Roy/Mark/Pete/Bobby Jeremy Joel Perez

In November 2013, Alexandra Socha left the off-Broadway production and was replaced in the role of Medium Alison by her understudy, Emily Skeggs.[31][32] Skeggs plays Medium Alison in the Broadway production.[24] In October 2015, Lucas was replaced in the role of Small Alison by her understudy, Gabriella Pizzolo, who had previously shared the title role in Matilda.[33]

Rebecca Luker is scheduled to play the role of Helen Bechdel from April 5 through May 22, 2016, after which Judy Kuhn is expected to return to the role.[34]

Songs and recordings

Since the songs in Fun Home are closely integrated into the script, no list of songs was provided in the program.[35]

The original cast album, released in 2014,[28][36][37] opened at #2 on the Billboard Top Cast Album Chart, a remarkable feat for an Off-Broadway cast album.[38] After the musical opened on Broadway in 2015, new portions of the show were recorded, and parts were re-recorded, especially to feature Emily Skeggs in the role of Medium Alison. It also includes more dialogue to help the listener follow the story. The song "Party Dress" was added, while a song for Small Alison in place of "Al for Short", as the latter has been removed from the Broadway show. A dialogue scene, "Clueless in New York", replaced "I need more coffee". Bruce's short a capella bedtime song, "Pony Girl" was added, as was the scene "A flair for the dramatic...". The album was released in May 2015.[39]

The track list of the 2015 release, which reflects the musical numbers in the Broadway production, is as follows:

  • 1. "It All Comes Back (Opening)" – Small Alison, Bruce, Alison & Company
  • 2. "Sometimes my father appeared to enjoy having children..." – Alison, Bruce & Helen
  • 3. "Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue" – Helen, Alison, Small Alison, Christian, John, Bruce & Roy
  • 4. "Not Too Bad" – Medium Alison
  • 5. "Just had a good talk with Dad..." – Alison, Medium Alison, Bruce, Pete, Small Alison, John & Christian
  • 6. "Come to the Fun Home" – John, Christian & Small Alison
  • 7. "Helen’s Etude" – Alison, Roy, Bruce, Small Alison, Helen, John, Christian & Medium Alison
  • 8. "Thanks for the care package..." – Medium Alison, Joan, Small Alison & Bruce
  • 9. "Party Dress" – Small Alison, Bruce, Medium Alison, Alison
  • 10. "Changing My Major" – Medium Alison
  • 11. "I leapt out of the closet..." – Alison, Small Alison, Bruce & Helen
  • 12. "Maps" – Alison
  • 13. "Read a book..." – Bruce, Small Alison, Alison & Helen
  • 14. "Raincoat of Love" – Bobby Jeremy & Company
  • 15. "Clueless in New York…" – Alison, Small Alison & Bruce
  • 16. "Pony Girl" – Bruce
  • 17. "A flair for the dramatic…" – Alison, Joan, Medium Alison & Bruce
  • 18. "Ring of Keys" – Small Alison & Alison
  • 19. "Let me introduce you to my gay dad..." – Joan, Medium Alison, Alison, Bruce & Small Alison
  • 20. "Shortly after we were married..." – Helen & Medium Alison
  • 21. "Days and Days" – Helen
  • 22. "You ready to go for that drive?..." – Bruce & Alison
  • 23. "Telephone Wire" – Alison & Bruce
  • 24. "It was great to have you home..." – Bruce & Alison
  • 25. "Edges of the World" – Bruce
  • 26. "This is what I have of you..." – Alison
  • 27. "Flying Away (Finale)" – Alison, Medium Alison & Small Alison

Critical reception

The Off-Broadway production opened on October 22, 2013, to positive reviews. Ben Brantley of The New York Times spoke of the musical's emotional impact, artistry and universality, calling it a "beautiful heartbreaker of a musical".[40] "Fun Home isn’t just a coming out story or a coming-of-age story. Its universality comes from its awareness of how we never fully know even those closest to us, and of the undercurrent of grown-up secrets, intuited by children, that exists to some degree in every family. Fun Home finds a shining clarity that lights up the night." Brantley praised both writer Kron and composer Tesori for their work. Of Kron he says: "her book and resonantly precise lyrics give this show its essential spine", and of Tesori's score "her best and most varied score to date... [which] captures [the story's] haunting ambiguity." Brantley later listed Fun Home as one of his top 15 shows of 2013.[41]

Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News called the musical "achingly beautiful" and said that it "speaks to one family and all families torn by secrets and lies".[42] Dziemianowicz listed Fun Home at the top of his Top 10 in Theater for 2013 list.[43]

Charles McNulty of the Los Angeles Times, though mildly critical of a few of the show's elements still was impressed with Fun Home, saying "There have been plenty of new American musicals better put together than Fun Home, but I can't think of one in recent years that has touched me as much with its tender, ironic and courageous vulnerability."[44] He states that the show's seeming weaknesses are part of the reason it succeeds, saying that it "gets off to a choppy start, takes unnecessary musical detours and is staged in a rough-hewn style that sometimes seems more accidental than intentional" but that it "succeeds not despite these flaws but in large measure because of them. Bechdel's ironically self-aware and inwardly searching sensibility is honored by a musical that isn't afraid to reveal its awkward side."

Though less positive than Brantley, Dziemianowicz or McNulty, Miriam Krule of Slate still said "there are also moments of pure joy, and the musical shines during these".[45] Krule felt, however, that "it's not clear that a musical is the best second format for the material".

Adam Hetrick, editor-in-chief of Playbill.com, described Fun Home as "the best musical of the year", calling it "an emotionally-packed piece of theatre, full of joy, heart, sorrow and uncomfortable reality".[46] Reviewing the cast album for Playbill, Steven Suskin praised Kron's "marvelous set" of lyrics, called Tesori "a master of musical styles... [who] matches Kron's tone with a mix of sensitivity and humor." Suskin singled out "Days and Days" for especial praise, calling it "a staggering piece of musical theatre writing". He also lauded the performances of Judy Kuhn ("stunning"), Michael Cerveris ("one of his finest performances ever") and the three Alisons, Beth Malone, Alexandra Socha and Sydney Lucas (calling the last "one of the most assured child actors we've seen"). Suskin called Fun Home "the best musical on the New York stage of 2013 — far outclassing the competition — and ... thus far the best musical of the 2013-14 season."[47]

New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini praised Tesori's score as a "masterpiece", noting that the "vibrant pastiche songs" and "varied kinds of music... a jazzy number for the young Alison in the middle of a rescue fantasy; Sondheim-influenced songs that unfold over insistent rhythmic figures and shifting, rich harmonies" come together to create "an impressively integrated entity". Tommasini also praised the show's ensemble numbers, calling them "complex yet texturally transparent, engrossingly dramatic".[48]

Anticipating the play's move to Broadway, David Levesley of online magazine Mic heralded Fun Home's focus on the individual experience of a lesbian, calling it "the most daring, relentless analysis of homosexual identity on the New York stage right now".[49]

Awards and nominations

The Public Theater production of Fun Home was nominated for the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History,[50] nine Lucille Lortel Awards (winning three, including Outstanding Musical),[51] seven Outer Critics Circle Awards (winning Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical),[52] three Drama League Awards[53] and eight Drama Desk Awards,[54] and it won the Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical.[55] Many critics predicted that Fun Home would win the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[56] The musical was a finalist for the Pulitzer, but The Flick by Annie Baker won the award.[57] The production won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical and the Obie Award for Musical Theater,[58][59] and 10-year-old Sydney Lucas won an Obie in the Performance category, becoming the youngest performer ever to win an Obie.[59]

The original Broadway production was nominated for 12 Tony Awards, winning five, including Best Musical.[60] Jeanine Tesori & Lisa Kron were the first female writing team to win the Tony Award for Best Original Score.[61] Kron won for Best Book, Cerveris won for Best Leading Actor, and Gold won for Best Direction.[60] Both Lucas and Skeggs won Theatre World Awards.[62]

Original Off-Broadway production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History[50] Nominated
Lucille Lortel Awards[51] Outstanding Musical Won
Outstanding Director Sam Gold Nominated
Outstanding Choreographer Danny Mefford Nominated
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical Michael Cerveris Won
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical Sydney Lucas Nominated
Alexandra Socha Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Noah Hinsdale Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Judy Kuhn Won
Outstanding Lighting Design Ben Stanton Nominated
Pulitzer Prize for Drama[57] Finalist
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award[58] Best Musical Won
Outer Critics Circle Award[52] Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical Won
Outstanding Book of a Musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway) Nominated
Outstanding New Score Nominated
Outstanding Director of a Musical Sam Gold Nominated
Outstanding Actor in a Musical Michael Cerveris Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Judy Kuhn Nominated
Sydney Lucas Nominated
Drama League Award[53][63] Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical Nominated
Distinguished Performance Award[53][63] Michael Cerveris Nominated
Sydney Lucas Nominated
Obie Award[59] Musical Theater Lisa Kron
Jeanine Tesori
Sam Gold 		Won
Performance Sydney Lucas Won
Drama Desk Award[54][64] Outstanding Musical Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Sydney Lucas Nominated
Outstanding Director of a Musical Sam Gold Nominated
Outstanding Music Jeanine Tesori Nominated
Outstanding Lyrics Lisa Kron Nominated
Outstanding Book of a Musical Nominated
Outstanding Orchestrations John Clancy Nominated
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical Kai Harada Nominated
Off Broadway Alliance Award[55] Best New Musical Won

Original Broadway production

Year Award Category Nominee Result
2015 Tony Awards[60] Best Musical Won
Best Book of a Musical Lisa Kron Won
Best Original Score Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron Won
Best Leading Actor in a Musical Michael Cerveris Won
Best Leading Actress in a Musical Beth Malone Nominated
Best Featured Actress in a Musical Judy Kuhn Nominated
Sydney Lucas Nominated
Emily Skeggs Nominated
Best Direction of a Musical Sam Gold Won
Best Orchestrations John Clancy Nominated
Best Scenic Design of a Musical David Zinn Nominated
Best Lighting Design of a Musical Ben Stanton Nominated
Theatre World Awards[62]
Outstanding Debut Performance Sydney Lucas Won
Outstanding Debut Performance Emily Skeggs Won
2016 Grammy Awards[65] Best Musical Theater Album Nominated

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