Though the scenes in the funeral home are fleshed out with vintage furniture, Alison's college dorm is just a desk and a bed.Īt the end of the play, Bruce remains a mystery to Alison. It chronicles the authors childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father. PCS' production is so intimate and charming, it's hard to imagine Fun Home on a giant Broadway stage. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It went on tour for the first time last October, but Portland Center Stage is staging its own production. The show premiered on Broadway in 2015 and won multiple Tony awards that same year. Then there's Alison the narrator, the successful cartoonist behind Dykes to Watch Out For, and who's attempting to understand her father through jumbled memories.

Fun Home is a poignant musical adaptation of a graphic memoir by cartoonist. There's Alison at college (Sara Masterson), who transforms from nervous and slumped shouldered, to belting out love songs as she discovers her sexuality and falls for a classmate named Joan (Kristen DiMercurio). A musical based on the acclaimed autobiographical graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. There's Alison (Aida Valentine) growing up in the funeral home where her father enforced heteronormativism on his daughter. Propelled by goofy, singalong anthems, Fun Home switches between three different stages of Bechdel's life. 'He killed himself and I became a lesbian cartoonist,' she says. Our narrator is present-day Bechdel (Allison Mickelson), who explains the play's fate in the first scene. Adapted from Alison Bechdel's graphical memoir, the musical tries to make sense of the cartoonist's complicated relationship with her closeted gay father, Bruce (Robert Mammana). Join us for Fun Home, the 2015 Tony Award winning musical Ben Brantley in The New York. Fun home / book and lyrics by Lisa Kron music by Jeanine Tesori based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. Only a few minutes into Fun Home, we know how the story will end. Music by Jeanine Tesori Based on the novel by Alison Bechdel. (Patrick Weishampel - ) By Shannon Gormley Septemat 5:22 pm PDT

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