Fun Home (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (4,473)
See it if You like new pieces of theatre.
Don't see it if You don't like dark subject matter
See it if you've ever had to come out to anyone, and/or if you want to see innovative, transformative musical theatre for the heart and the head.
Don't see it if this one's unmissable. Gorgeous, elegant, transcendent, magnificent. A truly cathartic experience.
See it if you have a heart and a box of tissues
Don't see it if you want to make a mistake
See it if ...you want to see a perfect musical. Script, score, direction, singing, acting - it's all there and it's fantastic.
Don't see it if ...themes of sexual abuse and suicide are triggers.
See it if you want to see an original, moving, thought-provoking and entertaining musical in an intimate setting.
Don't see it if you are not a fan of theater in the round or non-linear story-telling.
See it if This is a tender, exquisite play that really delves deeply into problems of sexual identity that face many families today.
Don't see it if There is no reason why anyone would not want to see this exceptional play.
See it if you're ready for a nuanced and complex musical that doesn't sentimentalize the past.
Don't see it if you don't like challenging moral questions.
See it if You like brilliant story telling.
Don't see it if You have kids who will cry throughout.
Critic Reviews (50)
"'Fun Home,' the gorgeously wrought and emotionally overwhelming new musical, is not so much interested in what happens to a loving but riven family, but why it happens, and, yet more important, what you do, as an old child, about the pain of your parents. It's a 100-minute piece that never lets you out of its embrace for a moment."
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"'Fun Home' has its weaknesses. The in-the-round staging often leaves you staring at an actor’s back. And as appealing as the Alisons are — all three actresses are perfect — the torment of the unhappy parents makes them more interesting characters...Still, 'Fun Home' is an important show. That it managed to make it to Broadway at all is a reason to rejoice."
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"A little bit of nuance inevitably gets lost when subject matter this dark is set to song; death and deep family schisms, after all, aren’t always fit for jazz hands. But like the book, 'Fun Home' manages to use an oft-unserious medium to deliver something seriously, singularly moving."
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"To say that 'Fun Home' is the best new musical of this season would be an understatement. 'Fun Home' is a thoroughly dynamic piece that is just as emotionally piercing, good-humored and enjoyable as it is sharp, focused and culturally conscious. It belongs on the list of the smartest, most innovative musicals written in the past decade."
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"There's always a hint of worry when an off-Broadway show transfers to Broadway. Will it lose the magic? Does it have what it takes to survive? In the case of 'Fun Home,' the answers are: 'heck no' and 'yes!' In fact, the thrilling nature of this groundbreaking look at adolescence has increased with its move...'Fun Home' is absolutely mind-blowing."
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"Despite all that’s excellent about 'Fun Home,' it stops significantly short of being an excellent musical...Kron and Tesori have accomplished enough to make this one of the season’s few must-sees if you’ve never seen it before. But if 'Fun Home' shows how the illusion of mundanity can become vibrant uniqueness when allowed to flourish as it most desires, that’s a transformation we’re allowed to experience only from a distance."
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"Both Alison and her father sing, in heartfelt tones: 'I want to know what’s true/ Dig deep into who/ And what and why and when.' The Broadway 'Fun Home' still leaves a lot of those interrogatives unanswered, yet it’s remarkably gratifying, often heartrending, and fiercely humane."
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"The best new play on Broadway at the moment is Lisa Kron’s book for the musical 'Fun Home.' The mix of book and music cannot be faulted, and it’s not just the songs that linger. Composer Tesori’s use of recitative is sparing and her underscoring for some of Kron’s dialogue is every bit as exquisite as the big arias."
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