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Fun Home at the Circle in the Square Theater
A few keys on a keychain. Not much to the average person, but to Alison Bechdel those keys opened up a whole new door she never knew existed.
Broadway's new musical and Tony winner for Best Musical Fun Home is a remarkable story through Alison's Bechdels life. It tells the story through three stages of her life, but never going in chronological order. It focuses on the two main struggles in her life the realization of her sexual orientation and the ever growing need to find out exactly who her father was. Based on Alison’s book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and written by Lisa Kron (playwright and lyricist) and Jeanine Tesori (composer). …show more content…
These keys are “childlike without being childish” and I find that's what makes the moment in the show different from other shows. Alison's sexuality isn't only revealed in her young life. Her father often had a young boy, Roy over who was later revealed by Alison's mother to be Bruce Bechdels lover. The next chapter in her life was college and teen Alison (Emily Skeggs). Here she discovered and tested her sexuality. Reading books about gay men and lesbian women lead to her opening herself and finding love with another women. It also goes through the first time she made love with a women “Changing My Major To Joan”. This moment is light and comedic, but it's really about the acceptance of who Alison is as well as knowing she wouldn't be alone. Alison finally knew she was a lesbian and she came out to her parents. This process was extremely difficult for Alison and eventually led to her father suicide. Helen Bechdel, Alison’s Mother, eventually told Allison college about her father being gay in the two still being married “Days and Days”. Allison immediately came home to talk to her father about both …show more content…
The score was exceptional blowing me away with the different styles shown throughout the show. The show was perfectly cast. You didn't see actors on stage you saw a dysfunctional family. The technical aspects of the show really pull together to make this small theater in the round believable. There are many instances of the show where I found the lighting to play key parts in making the story realistic. The moment I was taken back was when to simple headlights in a frozen actor re-created the scene of Bruce jumping in front of the truck. This show was phenomenon and brought he audience and I closer to Alisons
Fun Home at the Circle in the Square Theater
A few keys on a keychain. Not much to the average person, but to Alison Bechdel those keys opened up a whole new door she never knew existed.
Broadway's new musical and Tony winner for Best Musical Fun Home is a remarkable story through Alison's Bechdels life. It tells the story through three stages of her life, but never going in chronological order. It focuses on the two main struggles in her life the realization of her sexual orientation and the ever growing need to find out exactly who her father was. Based on Alison’s book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and written by Lisa Kron (playwright and lyricist) and Jeanine Tesori (composer). …show more content…
These keys are “childlike without being childish” and I find that's what makes the moment in the show different from other shows. Alison's sexuality isn't only revealed in her young life. Her father often had a young boy, Roy over who was later revealed by Alison's mother to be Bruce Bechdels lover. The next chapter in her life was college and teen Alison (Emily Skeggs). Here she discovered and tested her sexuality. Reading books about gay men and lesbian women lead to her opening herself and finding love with another women. It also goes through the first time she made love with a women “Changing My Major To Joan”. This moment is light and comedic, but it's really about the acceptance of who Alison is as well as knowing she wouldn't be alone. Alison finally knew she was a lesbian and she came out to her parents. This process was extremely difficult for Alison and eventually led to her father suicide. Helen Bechdel, Alison’s Mother, eventually told Allison college about her father being gay in the two still being married “Days and Days”. Allison immediately came home to talk to her father about both …show more content…
The score was exceptional blowing me away with the different styles shown throughout the show. The show was perfectly cast. You didn't see actors on stage you saw a dysfunctional family. The technical aspects of the show really pull together to make this small theater in the round believable. There are many instances of the show where I found the lighting to play key parts in making the story realistic. The moment I was taken back was when to simple headlights in a frozen actor re-created the scene of Bruce jumping in front of the truck. This show was phenomenon and brought he audience and I closer to Alisons