“A rare beauty, extraordinary and heart-gripping.
An unforgettable and groundbreaking musical, Fun Home explores the haunting pull of memory and the power it has to alternately destroy or shape, our identity. Alison Bechdels bestselling graphic novel memoir about growing up gay with a closeted father doesnt seem like an obvious choice for a musical, but its coming to Broadway. As Fun Home progresses, Alison is drawn deeper and deeper into her memories, finally entering into them, desperate (but unable) to reverse her father’s self-destruction. From 1983 to 2008 she drew the popular strip. As she watches her father’s self-loathing consume him, Alison recognizes her own experience of discovering, and ultimately embracing, her identity. Alison Bechdel is a Vermont-based cartoonist and author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic a graphic memoir turned Tony-winning Broadway musical.
This adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel is a beautifully performed mix of memory-play and. As Alison reflects on her past, she struggles to make sense of it, particularly her relationship with her father, Bruce, a closeted gay man and the owner of the family business - the Bechdel Funeral Home (“fun” home, as it’s known to young Alison and her brothers, John and Christian). Fun Home review Bechdel memoir takes stage musical in new directions. The Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home traces the coming-of-age of lesbian author Alison Bechdel, from her youth, to her years at Oberlin College, and finally to the present, where Alison, now grown, is struggling to write her own graphic autobiography. The stuff of legend, the Lorelei, or 'Loreley' is actually just a steep 132-meter-high (433-foot-high) slate rock atop the right bank of the Rhine River at Sankt Goarshausen in western Germany.
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