Playing the 'woman card' on Broadway: Talents, being noticed
When "Fun Home" won its five much-deserved Tony Awards last June, including the big one for best musical, there were delightful bushels of attention showered on the women who created it. Not only was the show adapted from Alison Bechdel's seminal coming-of-age-gay graphic memoir, but the prize score was by women -- lyricist-author Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori.