STAGE TUBE: A Look Back at FUN HOME's Opening Night on Broadway

After 582 regular performances and 26 previews, the groundbreaking musical Fun Home closed on Broadway on September 10, 2016. Following a successful Off-Broadway run at The Public Theater, the bio-musical about Alison Bechdel and her family opened to immediate critical and audience acclaim. Today, we take a look back at Fun Home's emotional opening night bows-check out the video!

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.