The 2015 Tony winner for best musical,
Fun Home, is on tour and is stopping at Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre this week.
I was lucky enough to see this funny and heart-wrenching modern musical on Broadway last fall with most of the original cast intact. And now we here in the Twin Cities are lucky to see it with a fantastic new cast (including Kate Shindle, Abby Corrigan, and Alessandra Baldacchino as the Alisons large to small, and Robert Petkoff and Susan Moniz as the parents) and a slightly modified set design and direction (it played in a much smaller in the round house on Broadway and has been adapted to fit a large proscenium theater like the Orpheum). If you're a fan of music-theater,
I highly recommend you head to Minneapolis this cold and snowy weekend to see what the future of the art form looks like: an intimate, real, raw story about life, death, love, and loss told with a small cast and a smart and beautiful score.
You can read all my thoughts about the musical here, and keep reading below for a conversation with my fellow bloggers Laura at
Twin Cities Stages and Jules and Carol at
Minnesota Theater Love.
