Fun Home (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (4,473)
See it if A beautiful production of a great show. Wonderful direction and terrific performances.
Don't see it if More a play told with music with each character having one solo moment. No pretty costumes or big dance numbers.
See it if you can enjoy stories about all kinds of love - familial, straight, gay, etc. The emotions are universal and the story profoundly moving.
Don't see it if you're uncomfortable with homosexuality, death and funeral home shenanigans.
See it if A coming of age play that tackles sensitive subjects will honesty.
Don't see it if If you're not open minded.
See it if you like Broadway musicals that push the idea of what a musical is and deals with gender, love and deep physiological matters
Don't see it if You don't want to see and watch LGBT issues played out in from top you
See it if you want a smart, thought-provoking, emotional experience. this story takes you places.
Don't see it if you are looking for a light, fluffy show.
See it if You want to witness a show that breaks musical theatre boundaries, as well as watch a beautiful, genuine, human story.
Don't see it if You don't have a heart.
See it if You're LGBT or have had a difficult relationship with a parent, you can appreciate a personal story told in an intimate and novel way
Don't see it if You like lighter fare, big, showy musicals, or if you're not open minded about sexuality.
See it if you like coming of age stories, you like LGBTQ stories, you want to see an ORIGINAL musical.
Don't see it if you don't like LGBTQ issues, you hate children, you hate theatre in the round.
Critic Reviews (50)
"It was an amazing show. Absolutely fantastic in every way...As a musical adaptation of a graphic novel, it was enormously successful...The scenes of identity and sexual awakening resonate like crazy for me…and based on the reactions of the audience, for many...I have only one thing left to say. If you can see this play, go see this play."
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"At moments during “Fun Home,” the beautiful heartbreaker of a musical, you may feel you’ve developed quadruple vision, and not just because your eyes are misted with tears. It’s also a matter of those three actresses playing the same character at different ages, a device that usually feels strained in theater, but here comes off as naturally as breathing."
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"As gay men increasingly claim pride of place in musical theater, gay women remain largely invisible there. Among the many meritorious things about the graceful Fun Home, adapted from Alison Bechdel’s illustrated memoir, is the way that Lisa Kron’s direct, poignant libretto and Jeanine Tesori’s expressive, multifarious music make lesbian identity legible onstage...a groundbreaking show."
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"Astonishing...That is what good writing is all about. We want adventure and a degree of safety all tied up in a bow. This production does that and more. This production soars and will be one of those iconic theatre events that will fall under the enviable rubric of “Did you see THAT production??? Hurry, hurry, hurry on over.”
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"Musical-theater training programs fetishize the “I Want” song — the number that comes soon after the opening of many shows and lays out the protagonist’s predicament. It says everything about the intelligence behind the new musical Fun Home that its authors have taken a good look at such musical storytelling traditions and mostly chucked them. Or more interestingly, reinvented them."
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"The score is rich and troubled and psychologically nuanced...Sondheim has always realized the devastating power of inertia, and 'Fun Home' does, too...Tesori and Kron have adopted Sondheim’s method without being derivative—their songs are character-driven gems."
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"The show is unconventional in its subject matter and uncompromising in its intelligence and emotionality. Songs are revealing and personal — whether it’s a break-your-heart ballad (there are a few) or fantasy numbers to lift the mood...Be glad you didn’t live there. But this “Fun Home” is an unforgettable place to visit."
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"How refreshing — a queer coming-of-age play in which the hero(ine) is not a diva, the parents are not monsters, and people are never mean, even when they’re being cruel. Lisa Kron’s warm, funny, heartbreaking book (from the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel) accomplishes all this without being sentimental. That welcome tone of sincerity is replicated in her lyrics to Jeanine Tesori’s introspective songs, which sound like a human voice being painfully honest with itself."
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