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Gold directed the show on Broadway, with the same production team as the Off-Broadway production, including Zinn, Mefford and Stanton. The Off-Broadway cast reprised their roles on Broadway, except for the actors playing Medium Alison, John and Christian Bechdel. 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.
Jeanine Tesori’s brilliant music and Kron’s moving lyrics transmit the feelings of the family, uninterrupted, like an emotional handwritten letter begging to be read. Each song expresses an individual experience artfully interpreted by Lucas Sherman and Grant Bramham, the two-person orchestra. I loved the use of the violin to accent the soulful sadness hidden in the joyful facade.
LISA KRON
A review in ABS-CBN News praised the performances and direction and called the production "undeniably moving, piercing through our core, and performed by an incredibly talented ensemble." This entry was posted in Past Productions, Productions and tagged fun home, musical, palm springs, palm springs theater, theater, theatre, tony awards. Singapore's Pangdemonium theatre company staged Fun Home in September and October 2017 at the Drama Centre Theatre, with a cast that included Adrian Pang and Monique Wilson. A production in Carmel, California, by Pacific Repertory Theatre at the Golden Bough Playhouse, directed by Stephen Moorer and choreographed by Sam Trevino, played in February 2018. A Canadian production played in February and March 2018 at the Arts Club in Vancouver.
Alessandra is thrilled to share this role she loves with so many around the country. She was most recently seen in Fun Home on Broadway as the understudy for Small Alison, Christian and John. Love and thanks to her entire Fun Home family, David Doan/CESD, Laura, Tiffany, Lindsay and her family for their support of her dreams. Good reviews are nice, but they don't guarantee a hit, as "Honeymoon in Vegas" learned this season. "The road responds more to the box office in New York than they do the reviews," Blair said. Blair, whose 12-member team is planning the tours of "Fun Home," ''Something Rotten!
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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". The original cast album, released in 2014, opened at #2 on the Billboard Top Cast Album Chart, a remarkable feat for an Off-Broadway cast album. 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.
We watch Alison’s childhood wonder unfold into adolescent angst, then into adult understanding. Using different actors for child, teen, and adult Alison, playwright Kron illuminates three stages of emotional growth. Also slated for the Curran’s 2017 season is Eclipsed by Danai Gurira with direction by Liesl Tommy (March 7–19), and Simon McBurney’s monologue play The Encounter (April 25–May 7). CJ has been part of several local Tools for Tomorrow fundraising events, for which he was acknowledged with the 2021 Daryl Timmons Bryant Art Spirit Award. He spent a number of years in San Francisco doing local cabaret and theatre, where he became known for his song “San Francisco Bye-Bye,” which became an unofficial anthem of the city at the time.
DAVID ZINN
42nd Street Moon is proud to present the Bay Area regional premiere of this five-time Tony Award winning triumph, a refreshingly honest, wholly original story about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. The production of Fun Home, which began performances at the Curran January 25, marks the first event of 2017 at the newly renovated theatre. Based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic-novel memoir, Fun Home has book and lyrics by Kron, music by Tesori, and direction by Sam Gold. Following a successful Broadway run, the show launched its first national tour October 2, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Alison remembers a time when Bruce took her and her brothers on a trip to New York City. After a long day, Small Alison, Christian and John settle into sleeping bags. He reassures his daughter that he's just going out for a paper, but Alison realizes he was probably going 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").
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Writing in Slate, June Thomas called it "the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian". It was first workshopped at the Ojai Playwrights Conference in August 2009. Following that it ran for three weeks as part of the Public Theater's Public Lab series in October and November 2012.
Originally scheduled to run through November 3, 2013, the run was extended several times, and the musical closed on January 12, 2014. The production was directed by Sam Gold, with sets and costumes by David Zinn, lighting by Ben Stanton, projections by Jim Findlay and Jeff Sugg, and choreography by Danny Mefford. Bechdel, Kron, Tesori and musical director Chris Fenwick accompanied the cast. Bechdel's book was adapted into a musical with book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and music by Jeanine Tesori.
Michael Reno is a Southern California-based Music and Theatre Professional whose career has spanned over 40 years. He has composed music for numerous theatre, film, television and corporate productions. His work includes arranging for Disney Animation, Hallmark, Elton John, Tim Rice, the Kennedy Center, Miss America, Lawrence Welk, and many others. He was the producer of “Sister Act the Musical” which premiered at the London Palladium in June of 2009.
Gyllenhaal proposes to star as Bruce Bechdel, with Gold directing his first feature film. 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". Kalle Oskari Mattila, in The Atlantic, however, argued that although the musical presents the novel's themes clearly, its Broadway marketing campaign "obfuscates rather than clarifies" the queer narrative of the original novel. An Australian co-production of the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company, directed by Dean Bryant and choreographed by Andrew Hallsworth, featured Lucy Maunder as adult Alison, Adam Murphy as Bruce and Marina Prior as Helen. It played at the Roslyn Packer Theatre in Sydney in 2021 and at the Arts Centre in Melbourne in 2022 after delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fun Home is scheduled to play San Francisco through February 19 before moving on to Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre February 21–April 1. San Francisco’s Curran Theatre celebrates its official reopening January 26 with Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori’s Tony-winning musical Fun Home. The historic venue opens its doors following two years of renovations. Republication, rebroadcast or redistribution without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. is prohibited. Bay City News is a 24/7 news service covering the greater Bay Area. Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker, through their Nine Stories Productions banner, have reportedly secured the rights to produce a film version of the musical.
Tony Award for Best Original ScoreFun Home is a musical theatre adaptation of Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name, with music by Jeanine Tesori, and book and lyrics by Lisa Kron. The story concerns Bechdel's discovery of her own sexuality, her relationship with her closeted gay father, and her attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life. It is told in a series of non-linear vignettes connected by narration provided by the adult Alison character.
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