Fun Home Tour

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/19/18 at 9:55pm

So I was talking to a friend and we are both fans of the show. I saw the show off-Broadway and on Broadway, and he's only see the Broadway and tour. I assumed they went with the same production off-Broadway as on tour - turntable, etc. But they didn't. And I've googled pictures, but he was trying to explain to me the "reveal" into their house. On Broadway it was just gorgeous with everything floating onto stage. And the reveal on tour sounds amazing. I've scoured the internet looking for video - which, I think is okay, seeing as how it has closed, and can't find anything. Anyone seen it and can describe the effect, how it happened? 

[OrchardAndRivington]

Posted: 3/20/18 at 6:29am

I loved the tour.. the white brick wall that was in for the NYC and Diner scenes was lifted to flat from the floor upstage where the wall then became the ceiling of the Parlor set, the wall piece's floor side (where the 2 doors are), was then the upstage ceiling in the Parlor, which then created a rectangular box set. The bench that was used in the Diner/Ring of Keys scene stayed downstage center, becoming the Car Seats for Telephone Wire.

[dmwnc1959]

Posted: 3/20/18 at 7:55am

Loved the tour as well! As described above, it was all rather dramatic to go from a drab white brick wall at times lit in soft neon blue, which we had been staring at at length - through the dimly lit NYC scene, where the father had put the kids to bed (laying on the bare floor in sleeping bags), singing a lullaby to Alison so that she’d go to sleep because she kept questioning where he was going, and then he snuck out to go cruising; then the ‘diner’ scene with the single bench, and Alison singing “Ring of Keys” - to have it lift and reveal the bright, fully furnished, stunning parlor. I remember uttering out loud “Wow” when it happened, and I saw the parlor in striking, glorious contrast to the drab, spartan, completely unembelished scenes we had just witnessed.

Still one of the best shows I saw in all of 2017.

Updated On: 3/20/18 at 07:55 AM

[RippedMan]

Posted: 3/20/18 at 12:51pm

I'm so impressed he managed to reinvent this show so many times. And curious to see how regional theaters handle it.

[stoptheworld38]

Posted: 3/24/18 at 1:48pm

Fun Home was playing in my town back in the fall and I really wanted to see it, but sadly it sold out before I could get the tickets...