Fun Home (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (4,473)
See it if You're interested in a brilliant work of art.
Don't see it if You want to bring a child to a show.
See it if you want to see a modern, relevant and brilliantly written musical with amazingly sincere and powerful performers!
Don't see it if if you dislike honest and truly moving performances.
See it if You enjoy a coming of age story of a college student who explores her sexual presence and discovers a family secret.
Don't see it if You are uncomfortable with a family that discusses their sexual orientation and tragedies.
See it if Very touching
Don't see it if you are homophobic
See it if you are a son, daughter, mother or father and love theater. The best show to hit Broadway in decades. A beautiful, moving masterpiece!
Don't see it if There's no reason not to see this show. It's a beautiful story of love and compassion. Go see it!!
See it if you want to see an innovative show with top actors at their best. Staging won't be available everywhere; see it in NYC for best advantage.
Don't see it if adult themes like homosexuality aren't your chosen musical comedy subjects. It's fun but provocative; not a chorus line in sight. No sequins
See it if You've read and liked the graphic novel. Or if you want a great, funny musical with a new and modern story and fun songs. Or if you're LGBT.
Don't see it if You don't like great musicals or you have strong negative bias towards homosexuality.
See it if You want to fall in love with the characters and feel their struggle, tenderness, joy, anguish and grief.
Don't see it if You would rather avoid the topics of coming out and suicide. It's worth it - see it before it closes!! I saw it twice.
Critic Reviews (50)
"The set is beautiful and allows for these seamless transitions that allow this theme of memory and this swirling vortex of Alison's life. The show is beautiful, you should really see it."
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"I fell hard for 'Fun Home' when I first saw it, and had worried that this rare beauty might be damaged in its relocation. But this production has only improved, not least because of its having to be reimagined for a theater-in-the-round space. The audience becomes part of the Bechdel family circle. For better or worse — we’re home."
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'Fun Home' is a thing of rare beauty: a Broadway musical of enormous intelligence and sensitivity. The libretto grabs you with humor, irony and poignant detail; the music moves with great skill from tuneful pastiche to striking dramatic force...'Fun Home' is not your ordinary Broadway musical, because it is extraordinary."
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"'Fun Home' is still basically what it was when I reviewed it before: the story of a lesbian cartoonist trying to understand her father, who killed himself shortly after revealing to her that he, too, was gay. Back then I called it 'hilarious and crushing,' and it remains so now. Maybe less hilarious and more crushing."
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"'Fun Home', the thoroughly engrossing, poignant show is neither depressing nor prurient. Quite the opposite: The staging by director Sam Gold remains so sensitively compelling that an awkward cast change and an even more awkward space have barely diminished the power of the show...'Fun Home' is a marvelous achievement, full of humor as well as rue. Its 100 transporting minutes fly by and then it’s gone — not to be forgotten."
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"'Fun Home' still moves you to your foundations...It’s unconventional grist, but the material is handled with such expertise that it speaks universally about life, love, family, surviving... Be prepared to wipe away tears."
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"New! Fresh! Original!...Lisa Kron assembles words and images in unexpected ways to dramatize the bittersweet memoir...Sam Gold’s direction brings lucidity to the complex mechanics of staging a story that takes place in three time frames. And Jeanine Tesori’s haunting music doesn’t sound a bit like anyone else’s. "
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"Composer Jeanine Tesori and writer-lyricist Lisa Kron have done something extraordinary here, reshaping cartoonist Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir into an unconventional memory play that seamlessly integrates music and drama...I found it a beguiling experience, almost unbearably poignant at times...For anyone who cares about adventurous musical theater, it's not to be missed."
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