Fun Home Comes to Public Theater’s Season
New York City’s Public Theater’s 2013-14 season, which was announced on Tuesday, will include the new musical Fun Home, based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel.
The musical will run from October 1 through November 3. The production received a developmental production in the Public’s Lab series last fall. The show’s music is by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics and book by Lisa Kron; the director is Sam Gold. The actress Judy Kuhn will be in the cast, though no other performers have been announced. Kuhn was in the previous production.
The graphic novel which came out in 2007, is Bechdel’s personal memoir and considered ground breaking. The work of art charts her fraught relationship with her late father.
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the “Fun Home.” It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

