Video: FUN HOME at Theater Latté Da

Get a first look at Theater Latté Da's hit production of FUN HOME, with music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, which has been extended due to high demand and will now play through May 11, 2025  at the Ritz Theater, 345 13th Avenue NE in Minneapolis. 

The cast includes Shad Hanley as Bruce Bechdel (Latté Da debut; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' Beautiful), Sara Masterson as Alison (Falsettos, NEXT Festival), Monty Hays as Medium Alison (Latté Da debut; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' The Prom), Eve Scharback as Small Alison (Latté Da debut), Ann Michels as Helen Bechdel (Five Points, Parade), Truman Bednar as Christian Bechdel (NEXT Festival), Berto Borroto as Roy/Pete/Mark/Bobby (Latté Da debut), Brock Heuring as John Bechdel (Latté Da debut), and Emma Schuld as Joan (Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria workshop). The understudies for the production are Emily Dussault, Liv Kemp, Joey Miller, Joshua Row and Violet Stowers. 

Introspective and refreshingly honest, this hit musical is hailed as one of Broadway's most original. Through the lens of three pivotal stages in Alison's life, Bechdel's witty and wistful illustrated autobiography comes to life in this moving journey to acceptance, directed by Addie Gorlin-Han. Looking back on her 1970s childhood in the family-owned funeral home and her complex relationship with her father, Alison discovers they had more in common than she ever knew. The Tony Award-winning score includes such iconic songs as “Ring of Keys,” “Days and Days,” “Telephone Wire,” and “Changing My Major.”

FUN HOME premiered Off-Broadway at New York's Public Theater in 2013 before transferring to Broadway in 2015, where it played 26 previews and 582 regular performances at Circle in the Square Theatre between March 27, 2015 and September 10, 2016. The production was nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning five, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score. 

Cartoonist Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir, on which the musical is based, is a cultural touchstone in its own right, named among the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times. Recipient of a 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, Bechdel spent a significant part of her early career living in St. Paul, Minnesota as she gained acclaim for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. The strip also served as the origin of the eponymous “Bechdel Test,” which has become a frequently used measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction.