“Fun Home” The Musical at Pigott Theater (part of Memorial Auditorium Complex) – Stanford, CA

Fun Home is a Tony Award-winning musical by Lisa Kron (book and lyrics) and Jeanine Tesori (music), adapted from the graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. The musical orbits a period of time when Alison Bechdel, as a college freshman in 1979, comes out to her parents in a letter, and then four months later her father commits suicide. Within those four months, Alison’s parents disclosed to her that her father was gay. The musical re-visits those four months from the vantage point of twenty years later as Alison approaches aging past her father. It is an elliptical exploration through her mind and her memory, her particular craft of accessing the past as a lesbian cartoonist, and a meditation on the creative labor for scripting a vision of one’s future beyond a too-soon narrative ending in death. Through it all, Fun Home invites audiences to join in a journey of experiencing and reflecting upon the particular pleasures, and the trials, of queer aging.

NOTICES:

This production runs 100 minutes and is presented without intermission. This production makes use of water-based haze effects.

For safety reasons, we cannot accommodate late admission OR re-seating while the performance is in progress. Please plan on arriving with ample time to find parking, locate the theater, move through the box office, etc.

Request disability accommodations and access info via Stanford’s online form. Requests should be made by NOV 7th.

Electronic Assisted Listening Devices will be available for pickup at Will Call for all performances.

FILMING ADVISORY:

Any personal video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited and a violation of the author(s)’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. Performances may be professionally recorded for Archival Use. Cameras in the theater may incidentally capture audience images and audio in the background. Ticket Purchasers must alert all members of their Party to this possibility, and refrain from purchasing tickets before receiving their Party’s consent.