Fun Home Previews — Page 14

It could...but it's unlikely to sweep the awards leading up to the Tonys...because of Hamilton, which I suspect will do just that.

I'm not thinking Something Rotten will get across the board raves. (The reviews on here are divisive enough to make me think that-I know the board isn't the same as the critics, but still, the opinions are so varied. Besides AE, I have yet to see outright hatred for Fun Home.)

I'm not saying it's a slam dunk-far from it-but, stranger things have happened. (Once beat Newsies, which did get pretty strong reviews.)

Is Fun Home eligible for the other awards again this year if it was nominated and even won some of the awards last year? That could, but hopefully wouldn't, take away from some of the award steam building up to the Tonys for this show. Not sure if anyone has talked about this point before.

I know that at least with the Drama League, Alan Cumming was eligible and nominated for the re-staging of Cabaret since he did not win the performance award the first time around. (This is actually similar to the Tony rule. Had he not previously won best actor for the Emcee, he would have been eligible for a second nomination). So I believe at least for the Drama League, Emily Skeggs WILL be eligible. And possibly the entire cast since none of them took the sole performance award (but perhaps not enough time has passed?). I think Skeggs will have a hard time getting nominated at these precursors though. How many of the League and Drama Desk voters would be invited to the show if she is the only aspect of the show eligible?

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I liked it and I didn't like it. The memoir is a beautiful and personal work, and the musical was probably the best musical that could be made out of the work, but the material resists adaptation. The problem is that while the memoir feels like a private conversation between you and the author, the musical is a group of people coming together to tell a story, and it just doesn't come off as well. I didn't like the cast album, but the music works better in the theatre. The cast was uniformly excellent, but in the novel, Bechdel spends about half the book justifying her father, and when his actions are just presented in front of you, he becomes particularly unpalatable. Cerveris does good by the part, though. If I hadn't read the book, I would probably say it was a really good musical, and it was, but when compared to the flawless book, it's just not up to snuff.

Ok, shoot.

Updated On: 4/8/15 at 11:11 PM

I don't totally disagree with everything Fantod said. Loved the novel, fell in love with the musical. I found the musical to have more heart, more emotion. I felt the book was analytical. (Maybe because she explained away so much of it.)

Updated On: 4/9/15 at 03:36 AM

I have the same concerns, but am hoping for the best...and maybe a good year or two run.

Saw the show last night and was absolutely stunned by how wonderful it was. I won the todaytix lotto and my friend and I ended up in the front row, which is a perfect view for this show. It made it feel so intimate, like you really were sitting right in the living room with them.

The book is very close to my heart, and I was a little bit nervous going into the show that I wouldn't have the same powerful emotional response that the book had got from me. I shouldn't have worried at all, because if anything, I was even more emotional at the show. As a gay teenager, watching a character on stage struggle with some of the same moments I have (Coming out, realizing you're gay, etc) was enough to get me tearing up, simply because I had never seen a character in a musical have to face those issues before.

Michael Cerveris is giving a true performance of a lifetime as Bruce, a deeply flawed and complex character, who has to be seen through the eyes of Allison at many different moments in her life. His Edges of the World is simply astounding.

All 3 of the actresses playing Allison are incredible, and I truly wish they could all be given an award for the way they take one person at different points in her life and make her whole. Sydney Lucas is phenomenal as young Allison, her Ring of Keys absolutely floored me.

Judy Kuhn. Wow. Her Days by Days is something so raw and real, even though I personally have never experienced a family situation like that, I still connect to the emotion of the song. It goes beyond just what is going on in the show, to be a song about a moment that I think everyone has experienced at some point in their life.

The staging on the show in the round is absolutely perfect, with the set constantly moving. Every seat has a good view, and even better, every seat has a different view. I could see this show five more times in five completely different places, and experience something new each time. The way the set pieces move is brilliantly done, huge kudos to Sam Gold and David Zinn for that, as well as Ben Stanton who is doing some very clever lighting design work.

I haven't seen it since the first preview, but I'm assuming Telephone Wire is still done on the revolve.

Not sure if this is a spoiler or not, so don't read if you haven't seen the show

I was disappointed that Alison announced at the very start of the show, how and why her father died, I think it would have hit me harder if I had not know that!

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I was disappointed that Alison announced at the very start of the show, how and why her father died, I think it would have hit me harder if I had not know that!

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Sorry, sine that is right at the start of the book and the show, I refuse to give it spoiler space

I think it would have been a big betrayal of the source material to not do it that way. I also think the story simply would not be as effective--I mean essentially the instigation for it is Adult Alison examining her life to try to figure out why her father did it.

I saw both Fun Home and Something Rotten this week. Loved them both. Something Rotten is a lot of fun! The second act kind of falls apart, although as a whole the entire evening is just fun and well worth seeing. Fun Home, on the other hand, is just sublime, important, amazing theatre. Wow!

I think Fun Home will win the Tony for Best Musical. It won't get choreography, or costumes. It's a toss up for Direction, although I think Sam Gold will pull it off What worries me is that we are going to have a repeat of The Light in the Piazza Vs. Spamalot again.

I thought The Light in the Piazza should have won that year. It would be a shame of Something Rotten won over Fun Home. Fun Home is just too important a work.

But on the other hand.. WHO CARES what wins!!? Go see both of them. They are both wonderful.

I dunno--a coming of age story, advertised the right way isn't necessarily a harder sell than a family dealing with depression... And, as mentioned, Next to Normal despite its subject matter and its lack of Best Musical win, did *run* (and I think was fairly successful on tour.)

(At least that's what I tell myself )