The Charles Stewart Howard Playhouse
Up Next at the CSHP
Performances
May 6, 7, 13, 14, 20
7:30 PM
Harter Hall
21338 Dumetz Road
Woodland Hills
Box office 818-835-0612
Adapted from Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking graphic novel, Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron
Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel
The Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home traces the coming-of-age of lesbian author Alison Bechdel, from her youth, to her years at Oberlin College, and finally to the present, where Alison, now grown, is struggling to write her own graphic autobiography. As Alison reflects on her past, she struggles to make sense of it, particularly her relationship with her father, Bruce, a closeted gay man and the owner of the family business -- the Bechdel Funeral Home (“fun” home, as it’s known to young Alison and her brothers, John and Christian). As she watches her father’s self-loathing consume him, Alison recognizes her own experience of discovering, and ultimately embracing, her identity. As Fun Home progresses, Alison is drawn deeper and deeper into her memories, finally entering into them, desperate (but unable) to reverse her father’s self-destruction. An unforgettable and groundbreaking musical, Fun Home explores the haunting pull of memory and the power it has to alternately destroy or shape, our identity.
Directed by Marshelle Giggles-Mills
Musical Direction by Larry Collica
Stage Managed by Brittany Sundman
Produced by Suzanne Ryan
Starring (in alphabetical order)
Amazing Oakes
Chad Sundman
Dan Newman
Dylan Beam
Evie Wilkins
Gisele Lajevardi
Keeley Bell
Kent "KJ" Sundman
Melanie Xanthos Goldstein
Owen LaBianca
FUN HOME is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com