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Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd

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#125Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/27/14 at 12:25pm

I suspect I'll be getting it for Christmas, thanks Dreaming.


Stephanatic

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Kad
#126Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/27/14 at 12:38pm

The question of why Bruce Bechdel killed himself is the driving force of the book and show.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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#127Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/27/14 at 12:40pm

Kad-shhhh. The book leaves room for questions as does the show.

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South Florida
#128Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/27/14 at 12:58pm

Thanks Kad, you guys have been very helpful.


Stephanatic

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#129Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/27/14 at 2:37pm

Can't wait to see their logo design for this.

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South Florida
#130Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:35pm

Can't get enough listening to this right now. I love the hyperbole but 6 months is too far away, better ease up.


Stephanatic

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#131Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/27/14 at 4:20pm

Re: the logo: they should use the same one that they had at the Public. It would look nice enlarged outside Circle.

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South Florida
#132Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:46pm

Haven't been addicted to music like this since Next To Normal.


Stephanatic

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#133Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:47pm

I love it too, SF. Favorite song? Mine is Ring of Keys.


If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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South Florida
#134Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:48pm

The music and the story are so beautiful and they nail it.


Stephanatic

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South Florida
#135Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:50pm

Just beautiful, the fun songs are awesome, it's just....


Stephanatic

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#136Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:51pm

My favorite can change, dramamama. I love the score in its entirety and it's like choosing between children. I love so many and really can't say I hate any of them. I love how diverse the styles are (note, ALW: they really don't repeat that many melodies-the opening they do and there's what I call "Joan's Theme" but it's not repeated over and over; also, the styles vary a great deal.) I think my favorite can change every other day or so-it depends what's happening in the outside wold a lot for me. I'd be hard pressed to choose.

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#137Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:54pm

I find myself humming "Helen's Etude" more than anything else.


"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

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South Florida
#138Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:54pm

Still at the point where it gets better with every listening and sports radio and NPR are off, for now, enjoying this music so much.


Stephanatic

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#139Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 5:04pm

I've said it before, and this is not a complaint as much as a minor quibble, but the musical has removed a good bit of the ambiguity regarding Bruce Bechdel.

In the book, we are still left to wonder at the end- haunted queer martyr in a world that he couldn't survive in, or abusive pansexual pedophile who was built by Alison into someone she could feel idealistic and ideological about, instead of a somewhat monstrous figure? Suicide or accident? Alison questions in the novel several times why she feels compelled to tell this story, and why she has chosen (at least for the moment) the image of her father she ultimately decides on.

In the musical, perhaps because even a nonlinear puzzle-box of a show like this can only be SO nonlinear before it becomes incomprehensible, more solid decisions are made, to the point of Bruce's final scene being from his own perspective and not Alison's.

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#140Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 5:10pm

Seems like they treat the predatory nature in the lyrics.


Stephanatic

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#141Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 5:23pm

Darq, it does seem like there is ambiguity, that makes it great.


Stephanatic

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#142Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/28/14 at 6:16pm

dramamama, I can't have a favorite yet. I'm falling head over heels with Telephone Wire right now


Stephanatic

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South Florida
#143Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/29/14 at 8:19pm

Ring of keys is my favorite song but so many swirl around my head.


Stephanatic

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South Florida
#144Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/29/14 at 8:23pm

Would think "Welcome to our house...", or come to the fun home would seem to be the most likely choices for the Tony's, anyway.


Stephanatic

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#145Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/29/14 at 10:29pm

I love Telephone Wire. And Beth Malone delivers it magnificently.

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South Florida
#146Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 10/29/14 at 10:45pm

I was crying for the first time listening to this song today. I'm such a wuss.


Stephanatic

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South Florida
#147Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 11/5/14 at 2:36am

We have at least one good one for me next Spring. Will it be one act? Haven't been this happy with an original since N2N, and SA.
Is the casting in question?


Stephanatic

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#148Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 11/5/14 at 5:34am

I don't think there had been any official announcement.


If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

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#149Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd
Posted: 11/5/14 at 9:15am

The only casting I've seen definite is that Judy Kuhn is returning (per the press release for American Songbook). I'm guessing we'll have an announcement soon.


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