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Carrollwood Players Theatre Presents
Fun Home
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron
Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel
A CWP Mainstage Musical Production
Directed by Derek Baxter
Musical Direction by Gabe Flores
Choreography by Devan Bittinger
March 17th – April 2nd, 2023
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Sundays at 2 p.m.
When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life.
Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality, and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires.
This refreshingly honest, wholly original musical is about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. Winner, 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical.
Presented with the support of the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners
Fun Home is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
Mature content, language, and themes.
Adults: $29.00 each
Student, Senior, Military: $26.00 each (please be prepared to present ID upon arrival)
Groups: 10 or more tickets, purchased in same transaction, all ages: $25.00 each.
Ticket prices increase up to $2 per ticket 24 hours prior to each performance or when a performance date is in high demand, whichever comes first.
Subject to availability, tickets may be purchased at the door.
At the close of the performance, my face hurt from laughing, but what else would you expect from a musical with the name Mel Brooks attached. This over-the-top and exquisitely offensive masterpiece, with everything from the producer's casting couch, grossly stereotypical ultra-sexy foreign female secretary/actress, sex-crazed old ladies to syrupy-sweet gay characters to literally, singing and dancing Nazis, this show is the antithesis to today's political correctness. The Producers at Carrollwood Players has something to make everyone do a little squirm in their seats and I loved every purposely-uncomfortable minute of this madcap story that revels in Mel Brook's irreverent humor.
Seldom does a reviewer get to see 'behind the curtain,' the director's enthusiastic vision of the set carefully sketched in a notepad long before it becomes an actual intricate tiered wooden platform or the director painstakingly folding pieces of paper together that would eventually be black lit painted, lighted and turned into the faces of the animals that would be called the jungle home. On Friday, the painted paper puppets that I saw months ago from director Drew Eberhard came to reality on top of the heads of the actors. Besides Jekyll and Hyde, the set of The Jungle Book Musical at Carrollwood Player is one of my favorites to date.
Like Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper radiating adoration and raw sexual chemistry, singing "Shallow" at the Oscars, as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd's hand roved up Miss Mona Stangley's lace stockings while they nuzzled on the couch, Angel Tuider Frale and Michael c De Baca scorched the stage at Carrollwood Players. The yearning for something more, an unrequited love was palatable. That's called great acting.
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