Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
#1Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 4:01pm
This casting is so correct. Might have to adjust my holiday travel out of the city!
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jenn-Colella-and-Caitlin-Kinnunen-to-Star-in-Site-Specific-Reading-of-FUN-HOME-20191008
LarryD2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/14
#2Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 4:19pm
Great casting, but this is something that really annoys me:
This is not a "site-specific" production. A site-specific production would take place in the Bechdel family home. I find it annoying how marketers have started calling anything that is produced outside of a traditional theater space site-specific. Okay, rant over.
#3Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 4:39pm
Hard agree that calling this site specific is just...odd. Assuming they are using the chapel seating for audience members and the actors will stand in front of them reading.
Nevertheless this casting is absolutely wonderful. I've wanted to see Colella take on Allison since I first saw Fun Home. And Kinnunen will be wonderful during Changing my Major.
#4Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 4:45pmI was expecting this to take place in a real life funeral home. Disappointed.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
GreasedLightning
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/11/14
#5Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 5:02pm
qolbinau said: "I was expecting this to take place in a real life funeral home. Disappointed. "
It is..
Dublin2
Chorus Member Joined: 3/3/14
#6Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 5:09pm
Yes, it's a funeral home, and very beautiful inside.
Irishman living in Brooklyn.
#7Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 5:23pmLol. Ok personally that would suffice for me.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#8Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 6:17pm
What a fantastic idea!
#9Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/8/19 at 10:10pm
Hope there's a highway where they can sing the last couple of songs. I find stuff like this so hokey.
Agree that casting is excellent. I genuinely wish this show was still open or just more accessible. We get local productions here and there, but I wish I could see it any time I wanted.
Caption: Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
ModernMillie3
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/13
#10Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 10/9/19 at 12:42amPerfect casting. Excited about this.
#11Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 12/19/19 at 2:19pm
Tonight's the night. Anyone going?
I find it amusing that they basically forced a PROM reunion by casting Izzy McCalla as Joan.
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#12Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 12/19/19 at 9:47pmTonight was beautiful. The cast was gorgeous and sounded amazing! I miss this show in NY...
ParkandBark
Chorus Member Joined: 3/18/19
#13Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 12/20/19 at 1:55am
Was there tonight. It was amazing. Jenn Colella was such a good Alison and Caitlin Kinnunen and the young Alison did amazing. I thought Kate Baldwin was fantastic and heartbreaking. I would kill to have this cast record some of the songs - especially Changing My Major, Days and Days, and Telephone Wire.
Side note: Audra McDonald was there and she was loving it (I sat right behind her!)
Calcifer2
Chorus Member Joined: 7/29/19
#14Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 12/20/19 at 10:41am
ParkandBark said: "Side note: Audra McDonald was there and she was loving it (I sat right behind her!)"
I was one row behind you then. Great evening!
brendcat
Swing Joined: 1/14/05
#15Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 12/20/19 at 11:37am
Thanks for the reports...curious since it was a reading, was there any action or did everyone stay at their music stands? Did the site make it more solemn or was the audience more involved? Anything else standout to you...would love to hear more...
#16Jenn Colella and Caitlin Kinnunen to Star in Site-Specific Reading of FUN HOME
Posted: 12/20/19 at 1:32pm
brendcat said: "Thanks for the reports...curious since it was a reading, was there any action or did everyone stay at their music stands? Did the site make itmore solemn or was the audience more involved? Anything else standout to you...would love to hear more..."
It was a regular reading but the talent was exceptional, and they had a full band which was a treat!
There was movement in the form of shuffling around seats after each scene and reading their parts together while facing each other. Some other random examples: Jelani as Roy fully unbuttoned his shirt during his scene with Bruce, Izzy and Caitlin fully made out before Changing my Major, Jenn Colella stayed in a podium in the back center during the whole show until before Telephone Wire when she came down for the scene and song with Bruce. The minor staging was effective specially during the final scenes where little by little all the cast members left the room after they were done with their songs (before the finale) and it was just Will and Jenn on stage, then Will left and Jenn remained alone for her line “I’m the only one here”.
I honestly forgot we were in a funeral home throughout the show as it was not used in any way specifically, I thought we’d see a coffin or something grim, but it was just a performance space with this reading. Potato quality photo below.
https://imgur.com/a/uoOqlgd
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