Fun Home at the Huntington
Sunday, December 7 at 2pm
Sunday, December 7 at 2pm
We have secured $30 discount tickets for the Broadway hit Fun Home at the Huntington Theater in Boston. A Huntington Humanities Forum follows the performance. Brunch for theatergoers at nearby Lucie precedes the show.
Contact Glenda Fishman gstarfish@aol.com for tickets. Venmo and Zelle strongly preferred. BOLLI members plus one guest only, please. Seats are limited, with those signing up early guaranteed orchestra seats.
Below is more information about the play and performance.
And now for something completely different! We have arranged a private tour of two special exhibits at Harvard's Houghton Library in Harvard Square. The Gloomy Gallery features a variety of Edward Gorey’s macabre and oddly amusing written work, illustrations, cut-outs and more. Gorey attended Harvard asan undergraduate.
The other exhibit Creature Comforts: 175 Years of Dogs and Cats at Home, showcases original children’s books of people, pets, and home from the 19th and 20 century, including authors Beatrix Potter and Margaret Wise Brown.
Scroll down to read more about these exhibits.
To register, contact Lois Gerson at loiswrites@gmail.com. There is no cost for this tour but space is limited. We will have lunch together in the Square following our tour. Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, Lamont Library, and Loeb House, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts.
Winner! Five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book
Winner! Two Obie Awards, including Outstanding Musical
Winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical, Fun Home is a beloved, groundbreaking, and emotionally rich story of seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. Based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir, the musical traces Alison through childhood, college, and adulthood as she unravels her coming-out story, and her complex relationship with a brilliant, volatile, and closeted father. How have the mysteries of her father’s life shaped her own understanding of love and acceptance of her lesbian identity?
“Fun Home is probably going to be much funnier than you will expect it to be. It picks you up and carries you to a lot of places that are funny, quite moving and never quite where you expect – but, always a place you are interested in being engaged in that place. At the end, it will take you apart a little, but then it will put you back together.”
“This beloved Broadway anomaly is one of my all-time favorites. Experiencing Fun Home with my then-teenage daughter, and then listening obsessively to its recording on the way to and from school for months, is a memory I hold close to my heart. Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori (two big-hearted geniuses) conjured something remarkable and infused it with the essentialness of looking back in order to move forward, the beauty of a soaring score to convey the journey, and the transcendent power of truth. One of the country’s most exciting emerging directors, Logan Ellis, will direct an unmissable production of this extraordinary musical for us. If you have ever been a parent or a child, this work of art is for you!”