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Milo Ward , Belen Quinto , Addison Sandoval Director Maureen O’Neill draws the best from her excellent cast, orchestrating comic, crowd-pleasing scenes. Child Alison and her brothers create a hilarious TV commercial for the funeral home where the family lives. Meanwhile, college-student Alison transforms from bumbling heterosexual to outed lesbian. Lipman, the coed, unlocks her sexuality with the funny song “Changing My Major to Joan.” Her voice and attempts at sensual dancing amuse us. Although, when she seeks the approval of her mother and father, she learns of her father’s homosexuality. “Fun Home” is a deeply personal play that draws us in to how the individual stages of a child’s life develop into the emotional acceptance of the adult.
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.
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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.
The theatre has staged more than 8,000 performances and seen such stars as Edith Piaf, Isadora Duncan, Ingrid Bergman, the Lunts, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Channing, Sir Ian McKellen, and Hugh Jackman. He is also lending his voice to upcoming animation projects for both Disney and Netflix. He has enjoyed acting in local theater projects, and is excited to work with the Coachella Valley Repertory for the first time. In his free time, Griffen enjoys surfing, playing drums, and designing rollercoasters. When not performing in musicals, Tinnaro’s love of the intimacy of cabaret has led her to develop several different cabarets incorporating a unique perspective and passion for musical theatre.
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He made his mark in Los Angeles with the West Coast Premiere of “Working” for which he won the L.A. Adam is the Executive Artistic Director at Coachella Valley Repertory. This is the second out of three productions he will direct this season. Much love and thanks to David Doan and CESD, Jillian Cimini, Jim Carnahan, Denise Simon, Robert Marks, DMO, Mom, Dad, Hudson and the entire Fun Home Family.
The 8PM evening performance on Wednesday, February 15th, will have audio descriptive services offered. To purchase tickets in the appropriate area for this contact the box office.
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The Pulitzer committee called the musical "A poignant musical adaptation of a graphic memoir". The production won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical and the Obie Award for Musical Theater, and 10-year-old Sydney Lucas won an Obie in the Performance category, becoming the youngest performer ever to win an Obie. A year-long U.S. national tour of the show began in Cleveland, Ohio, in October 2016. The tour was directed by Sam Gold and starred Kate Shindle as Alison and Robert Petkoff as Bruce. The first international production of Fun Home premiered in Manila, Philippines, in November 2016, with Cris Villonco as Alison, Lea Salonga as Helen and Eric Kunze as Bruce.
The musical made its London premiere at the Off West End, Young Vic theatre with Gold again directing. It starred Kaisa Hammarlund as Alison, Zubin Varla as Bruce and Jenna Russell as Helen and ran from June to September 2018. A Catalan language version directed by Daniel Anglès ran at the Teatre Condal in Barcelona from September to November 2018. Medium Alison writes a letter to her parents about college life but does not mention Joan or her recent realization that she is a lesbian ("Thanks for the Care Package"). Bruce orders Small Alison to put on a dress, but she would rather wear jeans. Bruce tells her that the other children would laugh at her; she reluctantly obeys him ("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 until Joan kisses her. That night, she is delirious with joy after having had sex with Joan and finally discovering her sexuality ("Changing My Major"). Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. "Fun Home" got both, and its creators and producers are proud that a musical with a lesbian character as its lead — unprecedented for Broadway — will tour the nation. Laura Kepley, the artistic director of the Cleveland Play House, said theater professionals have to be bold and provocative or risk losing audiences to film, TV and video games.
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.
" ''An American in Paris" and "Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," among many others, learned plenty when she booked the tour for "Rent." In celebration of the first performance at the Curran, Shindle, who is also the president of Actors’ Equity Association, was joined onstage by Bechdel for a surprise talkback January 25. See Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic novel come to life in this Broadway fave. Join the 140,000+ San Franciscans and get our picks for the best Bay Area free & cheap events and deals each week.
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.
Small Alison watches The Partridge Family, but Bruce angrily switches it off. Small Alison talks to him and finds out that he is going to see a psychiatrist, but he is ambiguous about the reason. Alison expresses annoyance that he lied to her; the reason he was going was because he was arrested for what he did to the underage boy. Helen attempts to reassure Small Alison that the psychiatrist will help her father, but she too refuses to elaborate. Bruce starts a vicious argument with Helen and breaks several of her possessions along with some library books.
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