FUN HOME, THE MUSICAL

 

 

Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, Fun Home, about growing up as a nascent lesbian in a funeral home run by her closeted gay father who eventually killed himself just as his daughter was awakening to her sexuality, has debuted off Broadway as a “shattering musical,” saith The New Yorker — directed by Sam Gold, who “honors the kitschy strangeness of the Bechdel family, whose pain and joy and ambivalence come alive in Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s rich neo-Sondheim score.”