![]() ![]() I imagine adapting the memoir into Fun Home the musical was difficult. ![]() In particular, this is a hard review to write because I can only explain events individually, but the musical audience can see all three timelines interacting together: Alison Bechdel as a child (Marissa Simeqi), college student (Ellie Van Amerongen), and adult. It’s the circles drawn through and around it that we walk in this musical. ![]() We know Bruce dies - it’s revealed early on in the musical - but that’s not the point. As adult Alison Bechdel (Amy Jo Jackson) illustrates her childhood and college years in her graphic memoir Fun Home, she recalls her newfound acceptance after coming out as lesbian in college just as her closeted gay father dies from getting hit by a truck. The funeral home - affectionately named Fun Home by the children - is the stage set, with painted white eaves hanging from the ceiling and antique furniture and ornamental rugs on the floor. ![]() The child, adult, and college-age Allisons all sing together at the end of the musical 'Fun Home.'Ĭalderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Artsĭeath and history loom over the Bechdel funeral home, the historical museum lovingly crafted by its director, Alison’s father Bruce Bechdel (Todd Yard), and cared for by her mother, Helen Bechdel (Laura Marie Duncan). ![]()
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