Come To The Fun Home

I haven't seen a stage recording or anything, just heard the soundtrack and seen some videos of individual numbers, but w o w this musical makes me feel ;_;

For anyone who doesn't know, this is the Broadway musical version of the autobiographical graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. (Yes, Bechdel as in Bechdel Test.) It's about growing up and coming out, and her relationship with her [closeted, gay] father, who was a funeral director. It's hilarious and adorable and heartwrenching and I love it.



(^ I OWN THIS OUTFIT ^ I MUST COSPLAY)


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this is so funny
literally half an hour ago i was listening to the soundtrack again and thinking 'ok but this must be relevant to more than a few kintsugi peeps i should ask around' and NOW THERE IS A FAN THREAD :D

I used to have a link to a totally legal of course recording of the whole thing, do you want me to look around and see if I still have it? :0 (I'm due for a rewatch anyways)

also can we please talk about how good (&powerful) Telephone Wire & the scene following it in the soundtrack is bc I literally stopped breathing for a while the first time I heard it
also the finale
and the intro
and the everything else
Just
This entire musical, ughhhhhhh

 

Um. Yes please??

(Wishing I'd titled this thread "Come To The Fun Home" now, actually... because JOIN US.)

I just played the soundtrack while making-and-eating my breakfast-and-lunch, and yes, I cried. I love my shows but I really need to take a break from musicals about deadly homophobia, because they're powerful and amazing but they also hurt. [glances regretfully at bare soundtrack]

 

I'll look once I'm home! :D I'm fairly certain I bookmarked it, so as long as it hasn't been taken down.... god i really need to start downloading musicals instead of watching them once and relying on chance to ever let me watch them again >:/

I haven't seen Bare! From the context I'm assuming I should, but also that i should wait until a day when crying feels like a good evening plan? :p

 

Yeah, definitely. And please let me advise you on which version to watch! There are a lot of different recordings but none that I would recommend outright...

 

Found it!! It's a bit shaky and blurry at times but hey it's a thing
I'll send it to you :D
(if anyone else wants the link just PM me!)

also i just watched the first five minutes again and was reminded how NEAT i think the stage/audience set-up is. ALSO LOOK AT ADULT!ALLISON MIRRORING TINY!ALLISON'S BODY LANGUAGE IT'S NICE

Advice will be heeded and appreciated c:

 

I would like the link please

 

i just finished watching (thanks, @Erica !) and wow the whole thing was great. the ending was so heart wrenching.

also oh my god Ring of Keys was so relateable, i remember having the same feelings as a kid. just that visceral feeling of sameness and correctness, from something that was never presented as anything but wrong before.

 

@Deresto me too - the weird thing is that I can't actually think of any specific situation that made me feel that way, but I know the feeling exactly. It's also one of the lines from Garnet that I love and relate to so much: "Why am I so sure that I'd rather be this than everything I was supposed to be, and that I'd rather do this than everything I was supposed to do?"

 

halfway through. want to cry. i love this musical already

 

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Goddamnit "a flair for the dramatic..." is so so close to being word for word what my mom has said about me being trans and I can't handle this musical anymore I'm gonna go cry

 

<3 so many hugs