Alison Bechdel’s "Fun Home": The Coming-Out Memoir That Became a Hit Broadway Musical
July 30, 2015
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as posted by the channelIn a Democracy Now! special, we look at the acclaimed Broadway musical "Fun Home," which swept the Tony Awards last month. Composer Jeanine Tesori and lyricist Lisa Kron made history as the first female duo to win a Tony Award for Best Original Score. "Fun Home" is also the firstever Broadway musical to feature a lesbian protagonist. The musical is based on the 2006 bestselling graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, "Fun HomeA Family Tragicomic." The memoir is a poignant exploration of family, memory, first love, coming out and a daughter’s relationship with her father. The title comes from the Bechdels’ nickname for their family businessa funeral parlor. Throughout the memoir, Bechdel the artist and protagonist sketches out her hazy memories of growing up in rural Pennsylvania and coming to terms with her sexuality as she tries to make sense of her father’s suicide. Her father was secretly gay and took his life shortly after Bechdel came out as a lesbian. We speak to Bechdel, Kron and Tesori, and air highlights from the Broadway musical.
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