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The past is very much the present in “Fun Home,” Lisa Korn and Jeanine Tesori’s remarkable stage adaptation of graphic novelist/cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s memoir about growing up and coming out
"Fun Home,” with most of its original cast in place, is ready for its opening this weekend. Ghent Playhouse’s presentation of the Tony Award-winning musical begins Friday, March 25 and
Adapted by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Lisa Kron (book and lyrics) from Bechdelâs eponymous 2008 graphic memoir, the show opened on Broadway as the first mainstream musical to feature a young lesbian protagonist, collecting five Tony awards, including best musical. That watershed moment merely touched upon the showâs innovative approach to its subject material, and this gorgeous Australian premiere, under the direction Dean Bryant, is a production infused with the sweeping emotion of its source material. Maggie McKenna, Lucy Maunder and Marina Prior in Fun Home. Photograph: Prudence ...