Fun Home musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir to be streamed online for two weeks

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Zoe Paskett27 April 2020

Hit musical Fun Home is set to be streamed online for two weeks.

The show, based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, will be online from May 12-24 on the Victory Gardens Theatre website. The Chicago theatre is sharing its production from 2017, directed by Gary Griffin. It will cost $20 (£16.10) to view.

Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron’s Tony Award-winning musical came to the Young Vic in 2018, playing an extended run to sold-out audiences. Jenna Russell and Zubin Varla were among the starring cast.

The Standard’s review of the London production called it “ a generous musical in love with quietness and ambiguity rather than big, brassy numbers”.

Despite there being no West End transfer, the musical still has a strong UK following.

Fun Home became the first Broadway musical to feature a lesbian protagonist when it debuted in 2015.

Bechdel’s book was published in 2006 and has since gone on to become one of the most famous contemporary graphic novels in the world. It tells the story of Bechdel growing up in a funeral home run by her father, as well as her coming of age and awareness of both her and her father's sexuality.

Head to victorygardens.org to download the show.

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