'Fun Home,' Intimate And Powerful, Defies Broadway's Demand For Spectacle " Review by Jeremy Gerard

A fathers’s suicide and a daughter’s sexual awakening may not be typical themes for a Broadway musical (OK, there’s no such thing as a typical theme for a Broadway musical). But Fun Home, the thoroughly  engrossing, poignant show that has moved uptown after a brilliant run at the Public Theater, is neither depressing nor prurient. Quite the opposite: The staging by director Sam Gold (

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