Fun Home, most factual musical?
Fun Home, most factual musical?
#1Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/23/15 at 8:20pm
What musicals have been as close to a true story as Fun Home?
Stephanatic
#2Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/23/15 at 10:58pm
Grey Gardens.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/23/15 at 11:03pm
Godspell
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HBP
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/05
#4Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/23/15 at 11:13pm
"Grey Gardens."
Act 1 of Grey Gardens would certainly beg to differ.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#5Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/23/15 at 11:28pm
"Act 1 of Grey Gardens would certainly beg to differ."
I was going to mention that in my first post but I figured Act 2 is still more factual than all of Fun Home, so I didn't think it mattered.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
Becky
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#7Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 12:24am
""Act 1 of Grey Gardens would certainly beg to differ."
I was going to mention that in my first post but I figured Act 2 is still more factual than all of Fun Home, so I didn't think it mattered."
What does that mean?
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#8Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 12:26am
Scottsboro Boys has a lot of truth.
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.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#9Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 12:28am
Passing Strange
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#10Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 12:41am
""Act 1 of Grey Gardens would certainly beg to differ."
I was going to mention that in my first post but I figured Act 2 is still more factual than all of Fun Home, so I didn't think it mattered."
I agree that much of the dialogue is pretty verbatim from the documentary, so I guess that's not completely untrue. I don't really know exactly how factual Fun Home is, but it's pretty true to the graphic novel, which is a memoir...although it's certainly possible she invented some details.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#11Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 12:46am
I don't think she invented anything. She put down exactly what she remembered. Of course, she spends a LOT of time discussing the inaccuracy of human memory. So there's that.
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#12Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 12:51am
I didn't mean she did it to be dishonest, but writers frequently add detail for a dramatic effect.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#13Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 12:59am
"I didn't mean she did it to be dishonest, but writers frequently add detail for a dramatic effect."
That's exactly what I was implying. I don't think it's dishonest, but you can't call it the most factual musical, by a long shot, simply because it's based on a memoir. I don't think Alison is a liar at all, but like Namo said, she herself talked a lot about human memory error. I've yet to find a musical more factual than the second act of Grey Gardens because it's literally the first Broadway musical (perhaps the first musical ever?) to be based on a documentary. And I do not hate Fun Home at all, before anybody claims that I do. But then again, this is for opinions sake!
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
Updated On: 6/24/15 at 12:59 AM
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#15Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 1:12am
Ah, but, it's a big leap to assume the documentary documented "reality" or "facts". Seriously.
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#16Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 1:20amI don't know if you've seen the documentary, but there isn't much to fake in it. It's literally just their daily life. It's not like they can fake much from just cameras being pointed at two women with poor living conditions. You know what I mean? Like, I can't imagine how they could fake something so minuscule.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#17Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 1:35am
So is something that is a a verbatim copy of a very short period of time more "factual" than something that covers a lifetime from its author's memory? I'm saying there are limitations to both.
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#18Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 1:37am
No, you're totally totally right.
They/them.
"Get up the nerve to be all you deserve to be."
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#19Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 1:40am
Basically Tennesse Williams and Alison Bechdel and Kron/Tesori remind us of the importance AND the inexactness of our memories.
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#20Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/24/15 at 1:43am
Hamilton...
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Ranger Tom
Leading Actor Joined: 7/6/14
#23Fun Home, most factual musical?
Posted: 6/25/15 at 2:15pm
Titanic.
"when I’m on stage I see the abyss and have to overcome it by telling myself it’s only a play." - Helen Mirren
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
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