{"id":9230,"date":"2017-11-01T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:48:32","slug":"festival-playhouse-to-present-fun-home-nov-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/festival-playhouse-to-present-fun-home-nov-2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Playhouse Stages ‘Fun Home’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFun Home,\u201d a Tony Award-winning musical adapted for the stage by Kalamazoo College alumna Lisa Kron \u201983 and Jeanine Tesori from a best-selling graphic memoir of the same name, will be the Festival Playhouse\u2019s first production of its 54th season.<\/p>\n

\"Fun
The musical has earned Tony awards for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, as well as the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award, The Outer Critics Circle Award and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

K is the first college in the nation to present “Fun Home” and organizers expect each performance to sell out. The shows are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2-4 and 2 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Nelda K. Balch Playhouse, 129 Thompson St., at the north end of the Light Fine Arts Building.<\/p>\n

\u201cFun Home\u201d tracks Alison Bechdel, a middle-aged cartoonist. Writing her memoir in the present, Alison actively combs her past, including life as a 10-year-old as well as a first-year college student, when she came out as a lesbian. She particularly struggles to piece together a truer version of her father, Bruce, who was in the closet, and his suicide.<\/p>\n

The musical has earned Tony awards for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, as well as the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award, The Outer Critics Circle Award and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award. It also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.<\/p>\n

A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as numerous other grants, Kron teaches playwriting at Yale and also continues to work as an actress to great acclaim, most recently in the La MaMa production of Brecht\u2019s \u201cThe Good Person of Szechwan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tickets for all four shows are available by visiting festivalplayhouse.ludus.com\/index.php or by calling 269-337-7333.<\/p>\n

Adults are $15, seniors are $10 and students are $5 with an ID. Kalamazoo College students, faculty and staff are admitted free with their school ID.<\/p>\n

This season\u2019s Festival Playhouse theme is \u201cTheatre and Making New Families,\u201d reflecting stories of characters searching to make sense of their family\u2019s past or trying to create a new vision of family all together. Learn more about \u201cFun Home\u201d and the upcoming theatre season at reason.kzoo.edu\/festivalplayhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Drama Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award, The Outer Critics Circle Award and the Off-Broadway Alliance Award. It also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.<\/p>\n<p>A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as numerous other grants, Kron teaches playwriting at Yale and also continues to work as an actress to great acclaim, most recently in the La MaMa production of Brecht\u2019s \u201cThe Good Person of Szechwan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for all four shows are available by visiting festivalplayhouse.ludus.com\/index.php or by calling 269-337-7333.<\/p>\n<p>Adults are $15, seniors are $10 and students are $5 with an ID. Kalamazoo College students, faculty and staff are admitted free with their school ID.<\/p>\n<p>This season\u2019s Festival Playhouse theme is \u201cTheatre and Making New Families,\u201d reflecting stories of characters searching to make sense of their family\u2019s past or trying to create a new vision of family all together. 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