Adaptations
- A film adaptation of Fun Home is reportedly in development with Amazon MGM Studios, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal as a producer.
International Productions
- The first international production of Fun Home was staged in Makati, Manila, Philippines, in November 2016, featuring Cris Villonco as Alison and Lea Salonga as Helen.
Musical Composition
- Fun Home is one of the first mainstream musicals centered on a lesbian protagonist.
- A updated Broadway cast recording of Fun Home was released in May 2015 to reflect changes made to the Broadway production.
- The original cast recording of Fun Home, released in 2014 after the off-Broadway production, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top Cast Album Chart.
Production Facts
- Fun Home closed on Broadway on September 10, 2016, after 26 previews and 582 regular performances.
- Fun Home is a musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir and explores themes like sexual identity and complex family dynamics.
- The musical Fun Home is notable for having three different actors portray Alison Bechdel at different ages: child, college student, and adult.
- The musical's original off-Broadway cast reunited for a special concert in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2014, in response to a controversy over the graphic novel being selected as required reading at the College of Charleston.
- Within eight months of its Broadway opening, Fun Home recouped its initial capitalization and started to turn a profit.
- Fun Home began its Broadway run with previews starting on March 27, 2015, and officially opened on April 19, 2015, at Circle in the Square Theatre.
- The original off-Broadway production of Fun Home was extended multiple times due to its popularity, finally closing on January 12, 2014.
- Fun Home premiered off-Broadway at The Public Theater in New York City on September 30, 2013, and had its official opening on October 22, 2013.
- The musical's poignant exploration of identity and family won it several awards, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama.
- The Broadway production of Fun Home was nominated for twelve Tony Awards in 2015, winning five, including Best Musical.
- Fun Home had a successful run Off-Broadway at The Public Theater, where it was extended multiple times due to positive reviews and audience reception.
- The story is delivered through a series of non-linear vignettes, artistically reflecting the layered and complex narrative of the original graphic memoir.
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