In other firsts, Fun Home later became the first to win a Tony Award for Best Original Score by an all-female writing team. Although earlier musicals, such as Falsettos, RENT, and The Color Purple, feature lesbian protagonists, Fun Home was groundbreaking for its frank explorations of the life of a gay woman. Some sources claim Fun Home was the first mainstream musical to have a lesbian as a main character. Alison Bechdel has been quoted as stating that Tesori and Kron “understood the emotional backbone of the story better than I did.” The graphic novel/memoir was adapted into a musical by composer Jeanine Tesori and writer Lisa Kron over a 5 year period. New York Times reviewer Sean Wilsey described it as “the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced,” and “A comic book for lovers of words.” Wilsey also noted that the novel succeeded in pushing the boundaries of two genres, comics and memoirs. Based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic novel of the same name, Fun Home is an intimate musical in which we are introduced to Alison at three different ages as her adult self sets out to unravel the many mysteries of her childhood.īechdel’s graphic novel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, was published in 2006.
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