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''Fun Home'' is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. The story concerns Bechdel's relationship with her gay father and her attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life. It has been called "the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian." It is the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist. The musical was developed at the Ojai Playwrights Conference in 2009 and at the Sundance Theatre Lab and The Public Theater's Public Lab in 2012. It opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in September 2013 to positive reviews. Its run was extended several times, and it ran until January 2014. The Public Theater production of ''Fun Home'' was nominated for nine Lucille Lortel Awards (winning three, including Outstanding Musical), seven Outer Critics Circle Awards (winning Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical), three Drama League Awards, eight Drama Desk Awards, and the Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical (which it won). It was also a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, but lost to ''The Flick'' by Annie Baker. It won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical and the Obie Award for Musical Theater. 10-year-old star Sydney Lucas also won an Obie in the Performance category, becoming the youngest performer ever to win an Obie. A Broadway production began previews at the Circle in the Square Theatre on March 27, 2015, with an official opening on April 19, 2015. The original Broadway production won five Tony Awards including Best Musical at the 69th Tony Awards. ==Background== Writer/artist Alison Bechdel's book ''Fun Home'', a memoir in comics format, was published in 2006 to critical acclaim. Its subject is Alison Bechdel's coming of age, with particular emphasis on her relationship to her father, Bruce Bechdel. Alison's coming out as a lesbian is complicated by the revelation that Bruce had also had homosexual relationships, including encounters with males below the age of consent. Four months after Alison comes out to her parents, Bruce is killed by an oncoming truck; although the evidence is equivocal, Alison concludes that he committed suicide. Bechdel's book was adapted into a musical with book and lyrics by Lisa Kron and music by Jeanine Tesori. Writing in ''Slate'', June Thomas called the play "the first mainstream musical about a young lesbian."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fun Home (musical)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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