Is Fun Home too good for Broadway — Page 3

"I'm thinking back to the many comments about how it would never make it to or make it on Broadway, let alone win the TONY."





All naive. Anyone who knows how the theatre world operates nowadays knew from the outset that all of those things would come to pass.

Updated On: 5/29/16 at 07:47 AM

"Calling people idiotic because they will not see a show you like is a bit on the narrow minded side."



Thought tyrants are not exactly open minded. Nor do they allow anyone else to be.

What a ridiculous thread indeed. If it's "too good" for Broadway, where does it belong??

After Eight said: "It had/has the power of the "arbiters of culture" and the media mega-machine behind it, and that's as good as gold. And it's just that gold that enabled it to move to Broadway and then to run there as long as it has. If word of mouth is finally catching up with it, then that's a good thing."



The power of the arbiters of culture is immense. But is this the same as saying that it got the gold because it was PC?

After Eight said: ""I'm thinking back to the many comments about how it would never make it to or make it on Broadway, let alone win the TONY."





All naive. Anyone who knows how the theatre world operates nowadays knew from the outset that all of those things would come to pass.



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You mean that the theater industry now operates in a way that guarantees success for ambitious, innovative, and progressive work that challenges, touches, and surprises its audiences such that it develops a strong fanbase before it is even reviewed? How uncharacteristically positive! I don't usually feel that positive!

Updated On: 5/29/16 at 06:03 PM

Scarywarhol said: "I'm bi and it took me until I was out of college to really understand that, because even gay people and communities frequently act as if such people don't exist. Finding your identity may happen at any age, but I think most LGBTQ people have early experiences like "Ring of Keys," which is more about recognition and an inchoate sense of belonging than a label or identity. That's what makes that song so emotional to me; remembering moments like that. Also, Alison actually DOESN'T understand or accept that she is a lesbian until she is "of age" in college. Medium Alison gets all those moments. "

I'm also bisexual and had a similar experience in terms of not figuring out my own sexuality until I was well into my twenties. I definitely had "Ring of Keys" moments when I was younger, but there was never a conscious realization until I was an adult. Looking back, as Alison is in Fun Home, I can put those pieces together and understand why I gravitated towards certain things and certain people.

Anyway, I took my 59-year-old mother to see Fun Home when they first opened on Broadway and she loved and was moved by it. I've also taken two straight friends (one a woman and one a man) to see it and both loved it as well. I don't think identification with it is limited to people who identify as LGBTQ, it just adds another layer to it if you love it.

I also wonder whether After Eight actually likes La Cage, or if he just likes it because it beat Sunday in the Park for the Tony.

Lisa Kron's explanation for the universality is grounded in a fairly obvious but critical idea about the theater: most stories we find ourselves drawn to don't really portray us. We aren't cowboys in Oklahoma, a matchmaker in New York, a band salesman, or a family escaping pogroms. We aren't Argentine dictators or singing animals, a murderer or a cannibal pie baker. We find our humanity in people entirely unlike ourselves in theatrical storytelling. We don't go looking for mirror images, only to have our emotions engaged by beings sharing emotional journeys we recognize as journeys. To find yourself enthralled and in tears over the family's plight in FUN HOME requires no self-identification as LGBTQ, nor experience with cartooning or funeral homes; only a willingness to listen, not even a necessarily open mind. The show does the rest.

Gypsy,

If stating a fact is being adorable, then the multiplication table is the most adorable thing going.

It is posts like this that confirm you are just a posturing troll here.

Oh, he confirmed that long ago. I'm surprised so many still engage in his ridiculous baiting. Whether he's a phony (most likely) or sincere (which makes him a hypocritical buffoon), what's the point arguing with him?

One more thing I just learned. Did Lin Manual delayed Hamilton so that Fun Home could be in the running for the Tony? If so, kudos. That was a brilliant move.

It would have had more to do with the Public learning from its past mistakes about rushing shows in, and also wanting to avoid cannibalizing their own shows. It was a smart move.

To After



Advocates of free speech are all for it as long as you agree with whatever they say. Stray from that and that is where the **** hits the fan.

The thought police are alive and well and prospering in every part of everyday life. Sad to say but that is life these days.Criticize a certain show and the villagers will be after you with pitchforks and torches straight out of a Universal monster movie.This is why I no longer post in any of the threads.It simply is not worth it.