"Fun Home,” Broadway's first musical with a lesbian protagonist, made history at Sunday's 69th Annual Tony Awards, winning 5 awards including the night’s top prize, best musical, and an award for leading actor Michael Cerveris.
Its composer, Jeanine Tesori, and book writer/lyricist Lisa Kron also made history as the first female writing team to win a Tony for score and book.
Fun Home is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name.
Fun Home opens in the present day, narrated by the middle-aged writer Alison Bechdel as she recalls the events of her life and tries to write her memoir. The show covers three time periods, which overlap on stage in a non-linear fashion.
The first is Alison Bechdel's childhood ("Small Alison"), when she struggles against her father Bruce's obsessive demands in the ornate Victorian home he has restored, and begins to identify her inchoate sexuality.
The second is her first year in college ("Medium Alison"), when she "leapt out of the closet", identifying herself as a lesbian and beginning her first relationship; shortly after coming out to her parents, she learns that her father has had relationships with men, and four months later he commits suicide.
The third ("Alison"), when Alison is a successful cartoonist and the same age that Bruce was when he died, shows her attempt to understand her relationship with her father, and the meaning of his life and death.
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