At the Source: Fun Home A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2020
- Showing a story and singing it are two different things. Who knew?
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Fun fact: the author, Alison Bechdel is also know for creating the Bechdel Test.
If you have three actresses of wildly varying ages playing the same character, and ALL THREE OF THEM are nominated for Tony Awards, you're onto something good.
This musical makes me CRY okay?
This is one of my favourite musicals, and is rather underrated, in my opinion. I love how they use three versions of Alison to convey her growth, and the parallels of literature utilised in the story. 🎭♥️
Little Allison deserved a Tony. I still go back and watch her award show performance of Ring of Keys. She’s SO good!!
As I've said, I'd love to see you tackle Annie for an At The Source. It'd be interesting to contrast Harold Gray's right-wing, FDR-and-New-Deal-hating, poor-people-just-need-to-work-harder views with the FDR-celebrating musical whose finale praises the New Deal. And while we're on the subject of comics...how about Peanuts, which gave us TWO stage musicals? (Though in both cases, much of the dialogue was simply taken word-for-word from the strip.)
The graphic memoir SLAPS (warning it’s very adult tho)
FUN FACT: A while back Hamilton was almost made into a graphic novel, just find it funny how they attempt to put Musical into other partial visual mediums like comics and graphic novels; something that (unless it’s a webcomic) has no music. Sometimes it can work, but it’s clear that though you could turn comics into musicals you can’t really do the reverse.
But they've tried before
Phantom of the Opera is supposed to get a graphic novel adaptation later this year.
Musical Hell Well, that wouldn’t be too difficult; Phantom has actually been adapted before in comics many times along with movies and T.V. . In fact there’s even a version that uses Batman characters.....no seriously, it was call “Batman: Masque” it was an odd one.
Adapting _Hamilton_ to a graphic novel would require distilling what nonmusical elements make the musical more interesting than a history book, and marrying that with a visual depiction of history. That, or find visual equivalents of every theme and emotion conveyed audibly.
Not even the craziest. Back in the day they made "Singin' In The Rain" into a comic book.
Words... they fail me.
Ive seen fun home 3 times and it made me cry every time
Uh. A friend of mine wrote her MA thesis on Fun Home (the novel). No idea there was a musical.
Check it out. Such an amazing score.
Such a good show. I’ve seen it twice now, and I was struck the second time that the number that made me cry the hardest (at least on second viewing) was Changing My Major, which is the happiest genuine song in the show.
I had to read this book in high school, and again in university, and in between those two readings I discovered the musical and fell in love. It changed the entire book for me the second time around, and the sole line "Daddy, come here, okay, I need you" can reduce me to tears. More people need to know about this.
Have you heard of Neil the Horse? That was an 80s comics series that was in a musical theatre tradition! Each issue had at least one song sheet. There was an audio recording that's captured on UA-cam as well!
I read Fun Home when it was first released and eventually would see Fun Home at the Circle in the Square. In many ways I feel like the musical is an augmentation of the source material. I think because the graphic novel doesn't really use scenes and thus contains few moments that seem capable of heightening to song. I think Kron & Tesori made a incredible job of really distilling the narrative of the graphic novel into scenes & songs in a way that really makes each bit come together as more than the sum of parts!
Your note on "Dog Sees God" got me thinking that I'd like to see a musical of it, but I'm not entirely sure it would be very well-received just given how dark and heavy-handed the play gets. But now I really want one.
Wait, I read this comic, I remember I was like ...15-16, in high school and wanting to read more graphic novels due to well reading nearly all the ones that interested me in the now 3 years old teen area of the library. I was going through area 740-741 in the non fiction...(yes I know my dew decimal system perks to being a librarians aid during high school, and being in an era before the computer catalog wasn't fully implemented in smaller libraries....I feel old.) I remember find this book as well as miss placed graphic novels meant to go into the teen area as well as a lot of what I guess the head librarian thought was to "Grown up" For teens to read. I remember reading it learned some interesting things, liking the art and such...then returned it...like years later I tried to find it again in my little sanctuary of 740. But it wasn't there anymore. If it was due to the content or the book never returned...I never found out...kinda sad really I would love to read it again in a more mature mind set
My college performed this before the quarantine. I thought it was cool.
I love Fun Home. It’s one of my favorite musicals. I wish I could read the graphic novel.
It's pretty easily available. You could likely find a copy within your local library system if cost is an issue.
This show is freaking fantastic. Reading the original memoir was really eye opening
This one is one of my favorites‼️
I studied Fun Home my freshman year of college (it was on the freshman curriculum for a solid six years). That year, the school was able to get Bechdel as a speaker that fall. At that time, the musical had been off-Broadway and someone asked Alison about it at a Q&A. It was neat to hear her speak about experiencing it.
OMG, I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but I read Fun home in January and commented on a video of yours of the same time that you should do this one. If it is the case that you saw my comment, this is so exciting!!!
Great video.
I love Fun Home. I discovered the musical before the book, but read the graphic novel and then the second one Bechdel wrote about her relationship with her mother, as well. But I listen to the musical on repeat a lot. It's amazing.
WOW
Good to see you can sometimes review the better angels of the genre; nevertheless, I'm still anxiously waiting for your commentary on the film version of "Cats".
Cats in the Cradle is Such a Downer, Once you Dissect the Meaning behind the Lyrics. That's the type of Music Classes I had. And When it Came to CATS WE HAD TO KNOW WHAT WE WERE SINGING ABOUT! SO DON'T TELL ME IT DOESN'T HAVE A PLOT, I LIVED IT!
Oh my gosh, I didn’t know this musical existed.
0:27 So, uh... when are we getting your review of Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark?
You think comics to musical adaptations are weird... then you are not ready for the anime to stage play adaptation 😆
Now you got me wondering if you'll do an episode, (Know the Score, At The Source, etc), for Dear Evan Hansen
Love this show but never read the book. I might check it out - is it still in print?
1:01 What about The Prom? I've never seen it but I've read the premise
Will you ever cover turn off the dark?
Look at the video by Wait in the Wings if you can.
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Off subject did you hear that Disney plus is making a Once On This Island movie. I know you like that show. I’d like to hear your thoughts on it when it’s released.
Anyone know if the play is streaming?
So fun fact the Christmas after I came out (as bisexual) my mom bought me the cast recording and honestly I think that’s beautiful
Does Celie (from The Color Purple) count as broadway's first lesbian protagonist? Or is it Alison? Or someone else. Great video, by the way. :)
0:29. I kinda liked _Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark._
This makes me want to read the graphic novel.
Do it. It's a great read. (And it's pictures: it doesn't take so long to read!)
W Allen I’ve never been one to fear length
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Two great know the scores could be bohemian rhapsody and rocketman
You HAD to put Cat’s in the Cradle as the ending song, didn’t you? As if I wasn’t sad enough already.
Is that musical Spider-Man.. Orpheus from Hadestown?
Yes, AND the Green Goblin is Hades!
This is one of those rare instances where I've read the graphic novel but not seen the musical. It still strikes me as such a bizarre choice to adapt - the book is so incredibly low-key that all your realizations when reading it are more like slow creeping chords than one big musical sting, like the background score to a suspense movie rather than the opening of the Phantom or Wicked overtures.
Part of me wonders if the LGBT+ community likes this musical because it's good or if we like it because it's LGBT+ themed. The rest of me feels terrible that we're so starved for material that I even have to ask that question. I also haven't seen it myself, so it may adapt much better than I think it would.