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Fun Home Goodbyes: Parents and Children and Their Neutral Zones

Fun Home Goodbyes: Parents and Children and Their Neutral Zones

Mark Robinson
Music That Makes Me Dance

The Broadway musical Fun Home closed a few days ago after a successful run that resulted in a Tony-win for Best Musical. I wish it had run longer, much longer, because it is such a heartfelt musical without easy answers and simple conclusions. Fun Home came closer that any Broadway musical has ever come to balancing the darkness and the light of growing up in a real family. We are all complicated in our own right, but throw our relationships with our parents into the mix, and many of us can have our neurosis exponentially charged. 

Reflections on Fun Home

Reflections on Fun Home

Mark Robinson
Music That Makes Me Dance

I am a little late coming to the table at Fun Home. Complications of time, money and geography made it impossible for me to see it any sooner, though I have listened to the Broadway cast recording, again and again, in anticipation of what turned out to be a very unique show that deeply affected me when, and only when, I was able to witness it in the round, live, at the Circle in the Square Theatre.