Alison Bechdel Discusses Bechdel Test, Creation of Fun Home and Seeing Her Life Onstage With Seth Meyers (Video)

Bechdel discussed the Bechdel Test, her reaction to the news that her memoir was to become the basis for a new musical and what it has been like seeing her life played out onstage.

Watch the interview below:

With music by Tony Award winner Jeanine Tesori, a book and lyrics by Tony Award winner Lisa Kron and direction by Tony Award winner Sam Gold, Fun Home opened to rave reviews at the Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th Street) April 19, 2015, and recently won five 2015 Tony Awards. The updated Broadway version of the original cast recording of Fun Home is available on PS Classics, PSClassics.com.

The Fun Home Gets a Redesign for Broadway! See the First Pics from New In-The-Round Staging

The cast — The Fun Home Gets a Redesign for Broadway! See the First Pics from New In-The-Round Staging

The critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir *Fun Home*, which parallels her own coming of age as a lesbian and the suicide of her closeted gay father, arrived on Broadway March 27 at Circle in the Square in a new in-the-round staging.
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HR - Beth Malone and Emily Skeggs in Fun Home — Beth Malone and Emily Skeggs in *Fun Home*

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HR - Sydney Lucas and Michael Cerveris in Fun Home — Sydney Lucas and Michael Cerveris in *Fun Home*

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