FUN HOME Reviews — Page 2

"Did you know when Kiss Me Kate opened it got the first Tony but it soon disappeared when South Pacific Opened. Sadly Fun Home will be all but forgotten when Hamilton Opens.
"I'm hoping for all raves! I can't think of a show I've rooted for more."

I just do not know how to respond to that.

^huh

Fun Home will also most likely have a few Tonys to help it. Hamilton will be competition, sure, but so will all other new shows, this season and next.

Talkin' Broadway: Mixed (to positive?)

But despite all that’s excellent about Fun Home, it stops significantly short of being an excellent musical. In Bechdel’s book, her gently alienating style of drawing contrasted beautifully with the heartbreaking subject matter creating a heightening effect that Kron and Tesori have not been able to effectively approximate. And director Sam Gold, who’s better than almost anyone today at making minute psychological nuances sweepingly theatrical, hasn’t imbued the writing with the size it needs to feel as though it’s about more than one gay woman growing up and discovering herself. Paradoxically, the closer Gold brings us, the more we’re pushed away.

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/world/FunHome2015.html

I do think Murray ends up on the positive side. He singles out praise for much of the cast, as well as the book and music. He seems to find Gold's new staging and the reworking of the set as something that pushes us away; whereas many of us in the preview thread talked about how it pulled us in more. Interesting.

"Murray mentions projections of Bechdel's drawings in the off-Broadway production, but wasn't only one projection used at the end? This is the case in the current production, so I didn't quite get that comment."

At The Public, didn't we get some projections on a black curtain at one point? Maybe the NYC scene? I can't recall the specifics. I think they were just frames though, similar to the frames being done in the current production. Maybe Murray doesn't equate those two?

ABC News / AP: Positive

The best commercial for a Broadway show this season isn't on TV. It's on Broadway itself, in the stunning, deeply moving "Fun Home."...There are sweeping love stories on Broadway this season and light comedies, too. That's fine, but make sure "Fun Home" is on your list as well. Rarely do you find a funeral home you're unhappy to leave.

And..

It has only gotten better in its theater-in-the-round format, with director Sam Gold using every inch of the stage and even the aisles.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/review-broadways-fun-home-deeply-moving-triumph-30434056

Huffington Post: Rave

Last season's best off-Broadway musical is now this season's best Broadway musical.Fun Home is the best Broadway musical in years...

Seekers of provocative, invigorating and entertaining theatre--musical or dramatic--will find it at Circle in the Square. To those who think that Fun Home doesn't sound like their sort of entertainment: this is musical theatre at its best, so go anyway. You're likely to be surprised, and thrilled, and enthralled.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-suskin/aisle-view-come-to-the-fu_b_7097076.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment&ir=Entertainment

Updated On: 4/19/15 at 07:49 PM

""""Did you know when Kiss Me Kate opened it got the first Tony but it soon disappeared when South Pacific Opened. Sadly Fun Home will be all but forgotten when Hamilton Opens.
"I'm hoping for all raves! I can't think of a show I've rooted for more."

I just do not know how to respond to that. "
Sometimes I play dumb well because I am"
You are dumb well because you are what?! Did you even actually finish that sentence?! "

mattbrain you are too smart I heard you a ceo

LOVING these reviews! I'm getting a bit emotional just reading them.

"""""Did you know when Kiss Me Kate opened it got the first Tony but it soon disappeared when South Pacific Opened. Sadly Fun Home will be all but forgotten when Hamilton Opens.
"I'm hoping for all raves! I can't think of a show I've rooted for more."

I just do not know how to respond to that. "
Sometimes I play dumb well because I am"
You are dumb well because you are what?! Did you even actually finish that sentence?! "
mattbrain you are too smart I heard you a ceo"

.........................................what?

NBC New York: Positive

"Fun Home" is a delicate portrait of family dysfunction that has only gotten richer in the 18 months since it premiered at The Public Theater.

“Fun Home” is a masterful achievement—a tragic musical about learning to see one’s parents as flawed human beings, and a story as raw and real as any on stage.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/the-scene/Fun-Home-Review-Alison-Bechdel-300501991.html

Chicago Tribune is Positive:

"Fun Home," the gorgeously wrought and emotionally overwhelming new musical ... features a memory-charged, emotionally emphatic score ... a 100-minute piece that never lets you out of its embrace for a moment ... with an exquisite understanding of the hope you get from children, whom you know will get to make their own lives, have their own fun, away from you. No wonder the audience sprang as one from its seats at the ending, and the start of living.

Broadway review: 'Fun Home' is an emotional powerhouse, by Chris Jones

Updated On: 4/19/15 at 08:31 PM