Fun Home Chicago Tickets

Fun Home

Fun Home is a musical that tells the story of cartoonist Alison Bechdel as she attempts to make sense of her life, beginning with a deep dive into her past. She focuses particularly on her relationship with her father and her effort to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life. He was a closeted bisexual, consumed by his “self-loathing.” At the same time, Alison, coming-of-age, is struggling with her own sexuality and how her life seems to parallel her father’s life.

Based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, the musical opened off-Broadway in September 2013. Considered a “musical with a book,” lyrics are by Lisa Kron and music is by Jeanine Tesori.

The musical opened on Broadway in April 2015, receiving positive reviews. Nominated for 12 Tony Awards, Fun Home won in five categories: Best Musical, Best Director, Best Book, Best Original Score and Best Actor. Fun Home is the first Broadway musical with a lesbian leading role.

Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist, best known for her popular and long-running, self-syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. According to Ms. Magazine, this award-winning generational chronicle is “one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period.”

Bechdel also creates graphic novel memoirs, similar to Fun Home. Her recent release, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama explores her relationship with her mother, as well as looks at the “theories of the 20^th-century British psychoanalyst, Donald Winnicott.”

Fun Home Chicago Tickets

The Oriental Theatre in Chicago plays host to Fun Home. It opened as a movie palace in May 1926. With a lavish décor inspired by the romantic Far East, the theater was a popular stop on the vaudeville circuit. Bing Crosby, the Marx Brothers and Burns and Allen are just a few of the top names who performed there during the Golden Age. The theater is in the heart of Chicago and close to both I-90 and Lake Shore Drive. Discover The StubHub Advantage. Get your tickets today.

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The graphic novel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, published in 2006, was a commercial and critical success, appearing on the New York Times Bestseller list and winning the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Bechdel was guest editor for the 2011 edition of The Best American Comics.