Emily Skeggs in Fun Home

As part of a whirlwind Broadway weekend, saw Fun Home Saturday night. I was initially disappointed that Sydney Lucas was off, but her understudy Gabrielle Pizzolo was great. However, the cast member I was really excited about was Emily Skeggs. I think she has sort of taken the back seat to Sydney because of Sydney's age and knockout rendition of "Ring of Keys", but I thought Emily had a much more interesting persona, a very nuanced performance.

I was thrilled that she was able to perform "Changing my major" on Seth Meyer's Late Night show the other night. The whole cast was impeccable.

I saw Hamilton the same weekend, but if I had to choose which show to see again, it would be Fun Home.

Skeggs was my favorite Alison. Changing My Major was one of the big highlights for me.

Emily Skeggs is great, but you made a post saying she should be getting more attention than Sydney Lucas, who you didn't see?

Worth nothing, for my money, Skeggs has some of Kron's best book scenes, the middle Allison's plight is, after all, the one that is tethered/smack up against Bruce's final days. The show's (and Bechdel's graphic memoir's) event around which the story centers. Skeggs's performance is so winning because she effortlessly plays the vulnerability and "hidden" aspect of being someone that age, i.e. only partially owning yourself, yet full of hope and genuine joy to discover the resulting fully formed human being. Her performance is terrific, never better than in the penultimate scene at home (which to me is an extraordinary sequence, a play in and of itself) with Joan and Bruce and Helen. And watch her in the show's defining moment, when Bruce invites her to go for a ride, and then turns his gaze to Malone. To me, one of the most electric in musical theater, one that pays off the conceit of the whole show. But I am a huge fan of Malone, Kuhn, and Skeggs, all of whom do stellar work. I'm so happy to read a thread about Skeggs.

Emily and Sydney have both missed a few shows.

I heard Malone and Kuhn have not missed, and share an understudy. Yeah, we all know the Cerveris track record, up there with Merman's. He simply doesn't miss, other than vacations or outs.

It should be noted that she's SUPER nice irl

She's amazing! And yes, she's missed a few shows like Sydney. Her understudy, Lauren Patten is awesome too!

Did you like Gabby as small Alison? I've heard nice things about her, met her the other day and was super sweet.

I can also second, Emily is extremely nice. I saw Fun Home the Friday night before the Tony's. While waiting for the subway Saturday afternoon (after their matinee) I spotted Joel and asked " aren't you in Fun Home?" He answered "we both are". Emily was with him and I didn't even notice her. I preceded to tell them how much I loved the show. Both seemed very flattered by my praises. They asked where I was from. I told them how many shows I was seeing. Joel, especially, seemed shocked, that someone would see 8 shows in six days. Two, very friendly, talented people.