Fun Home
Forward Theater Company
Overture Center-Playhouse 201 State St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
To celebrate its 10th season, Forward Theater has added a musical to its lineup, and not just any musical. Based on the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, Fun Home is an eloquent, irreverent, groundbreaking production about love, extreme family dysfunction, homosexuality, suicide and growing up in a funeral home. Adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, it garnered Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score, Best Leading Actor and Best Direction in 2015. Playing the lead role is Madison’s resident Broadway star Karen Olivo (Hamilton, In the Heights), fresh off her Boston run of the new musical Moulin Rouge. Through Nov. 25.
7:30 pm Wednesdays-Saturdays (no show 11/22) and 2 pm Sundays (3 pm on 11/25), plus 2 pm on 11/10 & 17, 7:30 pm on 11/20 and 3 pm, 11/23-24. $75-$30.
Cast: Karen Olivo, Clare Arena Haden, Matt Daniels, Rachel Zientek, Chantae Miller, Solana Ramirez-Garcia, Andy White, Tryg Gundersen, Donavon Lonsdale, Walker Stephenson
Pre-show talkbacks will be held on the following dates:
- THU, NOV 1, 8, 15, 6:30 PM
- SUN, NOV 4, 11, 18 & 25, 1 PM