{"id":1160,"date":"2014-08-14T19:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2014-08-14T19:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:55:10","slug":"fun-home-coming-to-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1160","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fun Home&#8221; Coming to Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alison Bechdel&#8217;s graphic novel\u00a0<em>Fun Home\u00a0<\/em>is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/08\/14\/us-musical-about-lesbian-sexual-awakening-to-open-on-broadway\/\">coming to Broadway next year<\/a>. The musical adaptation is slated to debut in time for next year&#8217;s Tony Awards. The musical will follow the story of the book, exploring how she discovers her sexual identity. In the show, Bechdel serves as a narrator who is writing the story while three different actresses play her at different ages.<\/p>\n<p>The show has previously played at the Public Theatre in New York City. It was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, losing to\u00a0<em>The Flick\u00a0<\/em>by Annie Baker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Alison Bechdel&#8217;s graphic novel\u00a0Fun Home\u00a0is coming to Broadway next year. The musical adaptation is slated to debut in time for next year&#8217;s Tony Awards. The musical will follow the story of the book, exploring how she discovers her sexual identity. In the show, Bechdel serves as a narrator who is writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}