#126
Posted: 10/27/14 at 12:25pm
I suspect I'll be getting it for Christmas, thanks Dreaming.
Stephanatic
Fun Home to Open at Circle in the Square on April 22nd — Page 6
#127
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."
#128
Posted: 10/27/14 at 12:40pm
Kad-shhhh. The book leaves room for questions as does the show.
#129
Posted: 10/27/14 at 12:58pm
Thanks Kad, you guys have been very helpful.
Stephanatic
#130
Posted: 10/27/14 at 2:37pm
Can't wait to see their logo design for this.
#131
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
#132
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.
#133
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:46pm
Haven't been addicted to music like this since Next To Normal.
Stephanatic
#134
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?
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#135
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:48pm
The music and the story are so beautiful and they nail it.
Stephanatic
#136
Posted: 10/28/14 at 4:50pm
Just beautiful, the fun songs are awesome, it's just....
Stephanatic
#137
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.
#138
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."
#139
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
#140
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.
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.
#141
Posted: 10/28/14 at 5:10pm
Seems like they treat the predatory nature in the lyrics.
Stephanatic
#142
Posted: 10/28/14 at 5:23pm
Darq, it does seem like there is ambiguity, that makes it great.
Stephanatic
#143
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
#144
Posted: 10/29/14 at 8:19pm
Ring of keys is my favorite song but so many swirl around my head.
Stephanatic
#145
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
#146
Posted: 10/29/14 at 10:29pm
I love Telephone Wire. And Beth Malone delivers it magnificently.
#147
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
#148
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?
Is the casting in question?
Stephanatic
#149
Posted: 11/5/14 at 5:34am
I don't think there had been any official announcement.
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#150
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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