Fun Home Transfer? — Page 6

After8 -- assumptions are not becoming. I did read some of ...temps perdu in a French lit university course, we had to read and write about the chez Swann section. But I admit, I've never read him in English (at the risk of sounding pretentious -- then again, it's you I'm addressing) and never have ventured past that. I will give you kudos for reading, now I'm going to assume, all of the volumes of the novel, however. It's something I always intend to, but you know, I'm too busy with Twilight. Your view on what you think I have enjoyed reading novel wise, be it for pleasure or in the past for school, is pretty bizarre but you have never been particularly perceptive when it comes to things like that.

Where did I ever even imply that Fun Home somehow has made people appreciate Proust in the first place, let alone that he caused people to suddenly remember him. Bizarre. My only comment, and it was I admit a random observation, was I found it ironic that while insulting fun home you quoted, unrecognized by myself, Proust since that is a part of the original graphic novel. I'm certainly glad, however, that Bechdel didn't attend some finishing school (and she does have an extremely strong literary education, if education is so important to you.)

"assumptions are not becoming"

Exactly. Then why did you assume I would find Proust unpleasant? Strange. And yes, I have read all of the volumes. In French.

But all of that is irrelevant, as are all the tiresome, dreary swipes by you and others about my presumed age, appearance, taste, etc.

No one cares about any of that, and all it amounts to is infantile threadjacking.

Time for you and you cohorts to grow up.

The subject of this thread is Fun Home. If you have nothing to say on the subject, then say nothing.

Someone just told me they fired Beth Malone, can anyone confirm this???

They've begun casting understudies for all the roles- my guess being that as they are extending they are also encountering cast conflicts. I can't imagine anyone from the cast being "fired" at this point but there could be a scenario in which conflicts demand replacing an actor for some remainder of the extension.

sorry in my shock i put the wrong person, i ment to write Alexandra Socha has apparently been let go, regardless i'm not sure this is true, thus why I'm trying to get secondary confirmation

Updated On: 11/24/13 at 08:29 PM

It is my understanding that they are going to extend as long as they possibly can at the Newman.

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Schedules and locations can certainly change.

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Going to see it on December 5. I hope it will be better than the live SOM broadcast that I'll be missing.

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Does anyone know where the coupon codes can be found? I was looking to order Fun Home and Yank and was wondering where codes can be found for PSClassiics and /or other cd coupon codes can be found.

Thanks for any info.
Happy Thanksgiving
D.F

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kdogg36 said: "Sorry to revive an old thread, but Kad linked to this earlier tonight, and I read through it. And what it reminded me of is how rich a work Fun Homereally is. It's about a grown person trying to make sense of her family and the choices her family members made as she grew up. It's about the coming-of-age of a lesbian woman as a kid, a tween, a college student, and as an adult. It's about a closeted gay man flailing about as he tries to connect with his gay daughter, even as he wallows in jealousy overthe opportunity she has had tobeherself, anopportunity he never had. It's about all of these stories put together as one miraculous whole, put to brilliant music - certainly one of the greatest musicals of the 21st century."

And I still vividly remember as Al was trying to make sense of this memory playing before her, like an outsider looking in, her father suddenly spoke directly at her asking “Are you ready to go for that drive?” 
 

that scene broke me to pieces.  I was sobbing as they sing “Telephone Wire” - one of the greatest Broadway songs ever written.  I still sob every time I listen to the OBC. Everything in this musical was pure perfection.  

 

rosscoe(au) said: "The staging at Circle In the Square was stunning."

One of my most favorite stagings of a Broadway musical ever. What I would give to see it for the first time again. 

Alex Kulak2 said: "I hope we get many more great musicals out of Jeanine Tesori, but for my money, I thinkFun Homeis going to go down as her magnum opus."

I discovered Caroline or Change during the last revival and absolutely adore that show as well. I just can’t choose a favorite. Probably Fun Home, but Caroline is also brilliant. We need more from Tesori. 
 

And it may not be perfect, but Shrek is also a fun score!