Fun Home
music by Jeanine Tesori
book and lyrics by Lisa Kuhn
based on the graphic novel by Alision Bechdel
produced by Circle In the Square
June 16, 2015
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Although I am not a musical theatre person, I was in the audience for the first week of the run of Rent and knew that musical theatre was going to change forever. I felt the same way sitting in the audience for Fun Home. Never have I felt the songs so connected to the story. When the show was over, it never occurred to me that the characters sang – – it was just that beautiful and that invisible! The story is about family and those crazy often toxic people that we will never be able to truly escape. They truly shape ever decision and turn that our life takes.
Again, this play again did something remarkable with the family story So often I am aware that I am seeing one of those “looking back at my past stories”. The chunkiness of this type of story story is just too predictable. But, with Fun Home it seemed so natural and free of gimmicks. The past was that well woven into the present! For one hundred minutes I was constantly joyful and touched – – although never in a manipulated way! It does, however, make you go home to your family table and ask yourself with more doubt, “who in the hell are these people.”