BWW Flashback: It's Flying Away- The Ground-Breaking FUN HOME Takes Final Broadway Bow
By: Nicole Rosky Sep. 10, 2016
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Fun Home, the groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning Best Musical, will play its final performance on Broadway tonight, September 10 at 8 PM. The show, which opened on April 19, 2015, will have played 26 preview and 582 regular performances on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th St) and 114 performances Off Broadway at The Public Theater.
Fun Home had a history-making 18-month run on Broadway, becoming the first Broadway show written by women to win the Best Musical Tony Award and the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist. Within the first year Fun Home had been on Broadway, they celebrated the Supreme Court's triumphant decision on marriage equality, became the first Broadway show to perform on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," welcomed U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power and 17 UN Ambassadors from other nations, and more. Fun Home was also the first Broadway musical of the 2014-2015 season to recoup financially, doing so in only eight months.
The coast-to-coast North American Tour of Fun Home will launch in Cleveland, OH in October 2016, and play more than 40 cities in its first year, including Chicago, St. Louis, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and many more.
In celebration of the ground-breaking show, we're flashing back through some of the highlight's of its triumphant journey from downtown to up!
In September 2013, rehearsals began at The Public Theater:
Beth Malone, Sydney Lucas, and Michael Cerveris
The company
Beth Malone, Roberta Colindrez, and Alexandra Socha
Sydney Lucas and Michael Cerveris
Beth Malone and Alexandra Socha
Company
The show opened later that Fall and ran through January 2014:
Rehearsals began again in early 2015 for a Broadway transfer of the show:
Previews began at the Circle in the Square Theatre on March 27, 2015 and the cast took their opening night bows on April 19:
Sydney Lucas, Roberta Colindrez, Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone, Joel Perez, Judy Kuhn, Emily Skeggs, Oscar Williams
Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone, Joel Perez, Judy Kuhn, Emily Skeggs, Oscar Williams
Sydney Lucas, Roberta Colindrez, Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone, Joel Perez, Judy Kuhn, Emily Skeggs, Oscar Williams
Zell Steele Morrow, Sydney Lucas, Roberta Colindrez, Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone, Judy Kuhn, Emily Skeggs, Joel Perez, Oscar Williams
Director Sam Gold greets cast members Zell Steele Morrow, Sydney Lucas, Roberta Colindrez, Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone, Judy Kuhn, Emily Skeggs, Joel Perez and Oscar Williams
Director Sam Gold greets cast members Zell Steele Morrow, Sydney Lucas, Roberta Colindrez, Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone, Judy Kuhn, Emily Skeggs, Joel Perez and Oscar Williams
Director Sam Gold greets cast members Zell Steele Morrow, Sydney Lucas, Roberta Colindrez, Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone, Judy Kuhn, Emily Skeggs, Joel Perez and Oscar Williams
Director Sam Gold greets cast members Zell Steele Morrow, Sydney Lucas, Roberta Colindrez, Michael Cerveris, Beth Malone, Judy Kuhn, Emily Skeggs, Joel Perez and Oscar Williams
Then the musical won big at the Tony Awards:
And FUN HOME has been basking in the warm glow of victory ever since!
Just last month, BroadwayWorld gathered the cast to reminisce about some of their favorite moments:
Goodbye, FUN HOME! Broadway will miss you!
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