"Telephone Wire" - Fun Home at MAC
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Monica Howe performing "Telephone Wire" as adult Alison (with Vince Wingerter as Bruce) in the Colorado premiere of 'Fun Home' at Midtown Arts Center, Fort Collins. www.monicahowe.com
for so many adult children, the line "there's a moment I'm forgetting where you tell me you see me" is so relatable.
Literally that line broke me. So many of us just want to be seen and sadly so many of us don't get that. It's truly heartbreaking.
This song is so emotional to me, I feel like you can really see the switch from when she’s trying to be so confident and compensate for both of them (say something, talk to him/just make the fear in his eyes go away.) And then where something switches and she realizes that he’s the one who has to meet her in the middle (say something, talk to me/when you tell me you see me.) This song always whacks me in the feels. So powerful.
This was the most heartbreaking moment for me from the show. It's sad when you think Bruce is about to have his breakthrough moment with her daughter and it never happens.
the choice to have adult Alison sing this and have it fully be her looking back rather than college Alison portray it was SO powerful. really showed how impactful this moment was to her.
That's a rather harsh perspective. Coming out to one's family was not so simple decades back, even to this day really. Bruce wasn't too showy of his affection.
When she sings, "But dad I'm not 21" all he hears is her shutting him down. "oh... Right." He's about to break out, bring her in to his life and his secret place. Unwittingly she tells him, no, I'm not going there with you. He pulls back into his desperate headspace, empty, alone, and unable to be himself for 40 or 50 years.
I think he couldn't talk to her about this because it was still too painful for him. She was living her truth, and he was still living a lie.
One of the best parts of this beautiful musical
This song is so crying inducing for me
I love this song
Wow! Wish I could've seen the whole show! Great performances in this scene. Nice work!
When she says, "But Dad, I'm not 21" as he's really trying but obviously terrified, I just lose it. I feel for them both so much.
Wonderful performance!
Beth Malone has a special and intense way to perform this song. It's impossible to not compared.
Yeah she does, but that's not her lol
In this song it actually feels, to me, like she's not listening to him.... he starts to open up and she hijacks the conversation to make it about her. I understand why she does but he just wants to talk about something he's never told anyone and she doesn't understand that he needs her to listen. Her extreme enthusiasm actually shuts him down and her reaction to him forgetting her age is also quite angry.... but he might never have been to that gay bar before and finally feel brave enough to go..... I don't think he's just a "bad parent" ignoring his child as many people make out....
I disagree. He tried to reach out by offering to take her to a gay bar--forgetting your kid's age is Bad Parenting 101.
I don't think her anger was inappropriate, and it was seriously just one expression that he didn't even see, it's not like she told him to eff himself.
Then he made her coming out about himself, and about a specific encounter (Norris Jones) instead of focusing on her (When my own kid came out to me, I did come out as bi to let them know that I really was accepting, but turned the conversation back to them and didn't talk about people I've dated unless asked--coming out between parents and children can get weird if it becomes about specific partners), but Alison reached out, tried to relate his always having known to hers, but then he changed the subject entirely to his latest remodeling project, a subject Alison had never found interesting.
Here's the thing I think you're missing. This is a time jump. This is not a current moment. This is current Alison back inside the memory of what happened with her dad. She already knows he will die. She already knows she didn't reach him. She's pushing herself "come on tell him" because she wishes she could change it. He can't see her because it is already too late
In the book he does take her to a gay bar. She gets carded, he says something along the lines of, “but I’m her father.” They’re not allowed and both are mortified. This song is a memory. Alison is literally saying, “there’s a moment I’m forgetting where you tell me you see me.” She’s not interrupting him. There’s nothing to interrupt.
Have you seen the show or read the book? This is adult Alison remembering a car ride back when she was 19. Her singing parts are just her trying to remembering and wishing that things happened differently. She never got to share her part when she was 19. In the book she stayed mostly quiet. That's why in the first part of the song she sings "say something talk to him".