Photo Flash: TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Presents FUN HOME
By: A.A. Cristi Oct. 02, 2018
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 2018/ 2019 season with Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical. Based on the blazingly honest graphic novel of MacArthur Genius Award winner Alison Bechdel, Fun Home explores Alison's loving, yet dysfunctional upbringing. Alison, the protagonist, contends with her past and present as she relives her childhood at the family-owned funeral home. Her growing understanding of her own sexuality and her grappling with unanswerable questions about her father make for a surprising, poignant theatrical experience. Told with enormous emotion and sensitivity, Fun Home's haunting yet amusing score by Jeanine Tesori with lyrics and book by Lisa Kron illuminates one of the most original musicals of its time. Directed by TheatreWorks Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley.
Fun Home will be presented October 3 - October 28 (press opening: October 6) at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro Street, Mountain View. For tickets ($40-$100) and more information the public may visit TheatreWorks.org or call (650) 463-1960.
Fun Home premiered off-Broadway in 2013 at The Public Theater, where it was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize and won the Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Obie Award, and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for "Best Musical." Its transfer to Broadway garnered five Tony Awards including "Best Musical," and the cast recording was nominated for a Grammy Award. Since then, Fun Home has received widespread popularity both regionally and nationally, with critics calling the musical "a rare beauty, extraordinary and heart-gripping," (The New York Times) "pure magical satisfaction," (Washington Post) and "one of the freshest and most authentic musicals," (Mercury News).
Photo Credit: Kevin Berne
Small Alison (Lila Gold) wants to play airplane in a memory from Alison’s (Moira Stone) childhood in “Fun Home,�
Small Alison (Lila Gold) and her father, Bruce (James Lloyd Reynolds), examine potential treasures from a neighbor’s barn,
Small Alison (Lila Gold) feels like Superman as she plays airplane with her father Bruce (James Lloyd Reynolds) in “Fun Home,�
Life is busy at the Bechdel house (shown l to r: Jack Barrett, Lila Gold, Billy Hutton, Crissy Guerrero, James Lloyd Reynolds, Moira Stone) in “Fun Home,�
The Bechdel family (l to r: Billy Hutton, Jack Barrett, Crissy Guerrero, and Lila Gold) prepares to be perfect for father Bruce (James Lloyd Reynolds) as they welcome an important guest to their home in “Fun Home,�
Medium Alison (Erin Kommor) calls home from college in “Fun Home,�
The Bechdel children (clockwise from left: Lila Gold, Jack Barrett, and Billy Hutton) play in the family-owned funeral home despite their father Bruce’s (James Lloyd Reynolds) wishes in “Fun Home,�
The Bechdel children (l to r: Jack Barrett, Lila Gold, and Billy Hutton) fantasize a commercial for their family-owned funeral home in “Fun Home,�
Joan (Ayelet Firstenberg) and Medium Alison (Erin Kommor) talk about Alison’s coming out in “Fun Home,"
Small Alison (Lila Gold) shares a school project with her mother Helen (Crissy Guerrero) in “Fun Home,�
Small Alison (Lila Gold) receives advice on how to improve her school project from father Bruce (James Lloyd Reynolds) in “Fun Home,�
Small Alison (foreground: Lila Gold) fantasizes about her favorite TV show coming to life in her living room, complete with singers and dancers (l to r: Ayelet Firstenberg, Michael Doppe, Erin Kommor) in “Fun Home,�
Alison (Moira Stone) remembers a car ride with her father Bruce (James Lloyd Reynolds) in “Fun Home,�
Medium Alison (Erin Kommor), Small Alison (Ruth Keith), and Alison (Moira Stone) remember playing airplane with their dad in “Fun Home,�
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