![]() ![]() (It’s that last métier that gives Bechdel’s book its title.) Scenes of Alison in college – falling for her first girlfriend – are also included as an adult Alison tries to contain her history in neat black borders and attempts to find captions for a past she still doesn’t fully understand. It describes her childhood in small-town Pennsylvania with two younger brothers, a stifled mother, and a closeted father, an enthusiast of period décor, an English teacher, and a mortician at the family funeral home. ![]() Much of the original cast has returned – and of course the same source material, the cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s graphic-novel memoir of coming out as a lesbian at the same time as her father stepped out in front of a truck.Īs in Bechdel’s memoir, the show’s chronology is scrambled. It still has the same book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, the same songs by Jeanine Tesori and the same direction from Sam Gold. Fun Home, a resonant and sophisticated musical that includes a barbed paean to housecleaning, has been given a judicious shine and polish in its move from the Public Theater up to Broadway. ![]()
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