Fun Home is an extraordinary musical for the LGBTQ community and a true story.
Fun Home tells the story of a little girl trying to come to terms with her sexual identity and that she is a lesbian. It presents the story of her coming out to her father, who also was gay and in the closet.
The Writer, Lisa Kron once told others the “Fun” in Fun Home is short for Funeral. It’s a sorrowful musical told in a beautiful way.
One Review from the Hollywood Reporter stated, “Perhaps the most over-trafficked subject matter among contemporary American dramatists is the dysfunctional family. So, one of the many wonders of the haunting musical Fun Home is the unique perspective it brings to that theme, in a deeply personal story that marries the specificity of individual experience with an emotional universality that with find echoes in many of our lives.”
Another Review by Deadline states, “The brilliant Show, which opened on Sunday at the Circle in the Square after an extended run at the off-Broadway Public Theatre, suggests that families- in this case the Bechdels of small-town Pennsylvania- are very complicated assemblages, made up of individuals with private dreams, sorrows, and secrets.”
Some of the only shows that represent Lesbian relationships on Broadway are Rent and Fun Home.
It can be so exciting and Inspiring to see someone like you on stage, and that is what Fun Home gave to many women.
Broadway is truly breathtaking when they have great representation of everyone.