Fun Home
by Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, Alison Bechdel

Name: Fun Home
Brand: Lisa Kron
SKU: 9780573704574
Rating: 4.42 (551 reviews)

Broadway Off-Broadway

Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins Present Day Features Children Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Awards & Recognition

Lucille Lortel Award Obie Award Olivier Award Outer Critics Circle Pulitzer Prize Tony Award

Winner! Five 2015 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book Finalist: 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! Two 2014 Obie Awards, including Outstanding Musical Winner! 2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical Winner! Three 2014 Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Musical Nominee: Three 2019 Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical

Synopsis

When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life.

Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires.

Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

Press Reviews

"Wondrous… Tesori and Kron’s light touch lets the work soar to sky limits. It shifts remarkably between light and shade, sweet and aching moments, haunting dissonance and perfect harmony."
— The Guardian

"Fun Home is a beautiful, sensitive, insightful, innovative and heartbreaking musical, addressing themes including sexual identity, family, memory, truth and lies, and suicide… The show is ingeniously structured, using a non-linear narrative that moves back and forth in time to amplify the theme of memory and the impact of our parents and family on who we become."
— Limelight

"The best musical of the season."
— New York Magazine

"Few shows are as moving, relatable, and funny."
— Associated Press

"The best Broadway musical in years, with the finest score in a decade."
— Huffington Post

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Medium Alison G3-E5 19 years old, a college freshman (Range: G3-E5)	—	—	19 years old, a college freshman (Range: G3-E5)
Small Alison A3-E5 Around 9 years old (Range: A3-E5)	—	—	Around 9 years old (Range: A3-E5)
Bruce Bechdel A2-G4 Alison’s father (Range: A2-G4)	male	—	Alison’s father (Range: A2-G4)
Helen Bechdel A3-E5 Alison’s mother (Range: A3-E5)	female	—	Alison’s mother (Range: A3-E5)
Christian Bechdel C#4-D5 Alison’s brother, around 10 years old (Range: C#4-D5)	male	—	Alison’s brother, around 10 years old (Range: C#4-D5)
John Bechdel C#4-E5 Alison’s brother, around 6 years old (Range: C#4-E5)	male	—	Alison’s brother, around 6 years old (Range: C#4-E5)
Roy G3-A4 (opt. D#5 A young man Bruce hires to do yard work (Range: G3-A4 (opt. D#5))	—	—	A young man Bruce hires to do yard work (Range: G3-A4 (opt. D#5))
Mark A high school junior	—	—	A high school junior
Joan G3-G4 A college student (Range: G3-G4)	—	—	A college student (Range: G3-G4)
Pete A mourner	—	—	A mourner
Bobby Jeremy And The Susan Deys Imaginary television characters	—	—	Imaginary television characters
Alison E3-D5 43 years old, a cartoonist (Range: E3-D5)	—	—	43 years old, a cartoonist (Range: E3-D5)