Where & When
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13 THROUGH
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15
8:00PM
PIGOTT THEATER
Admission
SOLD OUT
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Important Info
For safety reasons, we cannot accommodate late admission OR re-seating while the performance is in progress. Please plan on arriving with ample time to find parking, locate the theater, move through the box office, etc.
This production makes use of water-based haze.
Filming Advisory
Any personal video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited and a violation of the author(s)’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law.
Runtime
This production runs 100 minutes and is presented without intermission.
Accessibility
Request disability accommodations and access info via Stanford’s online form. Requests should be made by November 07.
Electronic Assisted Listening Devices will be available for pickup at Will Call for all performances.
Sponsors
This production is supported by the Pigott Fund for Drama and the May Ellen Ritter Production Fund.
About Fun Home
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron
Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel
Director & Choreographer: Adin Walker
Music Director & Conductor: Jad Bernardo
Fun Home is a Tony Award-winning musical by Lisa Kron (book and lyrics) and Jeanine Tesori (music), adapted from the graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. The musical orbits a period of time when Alison Bechdel, as a college freshman in 1979, comes out to her parents in a letter, and then four months later her father commits suicide. Within those four months, Alison’s parents disclosed to her that her father was gay. The musical re-visits those four months from the vantage point of twenty years later as Alison approaches aging past her father. It is an elliptical exploration through her mind and her memory, her particular craft of accessing the past as a lesbian cartoonist, and a meditation on the creative labor for scripting a vision of one’s future beyond a too-soon narrative ending in death. Through it all, Fun Home invites audiences to join in a journey of experiencing and reflecting upon the particular pleasures, and the trials, of queer aging.
The Making of
TAPS Graduate Student + TABLEWORK Host Marina Johnson interviews Fun Home Director and Choreographer Adin Walker and Dramaturg Shailee Rajak.
Production Credits
Director & Choreographer
Adin Walker
Music Director
Jad Bernardo
Faculty Advisor
Amy Freed
Dramaturg
Shailee Rajak
Text/Vocal Coach
Stephanie Hunt
Scenic Designer
Nina Ball
Props Artisan
Christine Edwards
Costume Designer
Becky Bodurtha
Lighting Designer
Christian Mejia
Assistant Lighting Designer
Trini Rogando
Projections Designer/Assistant Lighting Designer
Connor Lifson
Sound Designer
Cliff Caruthers
Assistant Sound Designer
Jude St John
Audio Engineer
Sound on Stage
Intimacy Coordinator
Natalie Greene
Stage Manager
Virginia Tipps
Assistant Stage Managers
Sebastian Hochman, Ben Hollingshead
Cast
Medium Alison
Alexis Tuchinda
Helen
Amistad Vanegas
Dance Captain, Swing [Alisons, Joan, Helen]
Evelyn Rose Burt
Bruce
Henry Cargill
Joan
Jenny Ballutay
Older Alison
Lyle Belger
Small Alison
Maddie Garfinkel
John
Max Sutton
Roy
Ryder Thompson
Christian
Sara Alanis Morales
Band
Conductor, Keys
Jad Bernardo
Guitar
Derek Brooker
Bass
Kyle Wong
Violin
Kat Crawford
Drums/Percussion
Phoebe Chou
Cello
Andrew Woo-jong Lee
Crew
A2s
Joe Krempetz, Jude St John
TAPS 39 Crew
David Fox, Rushank Goyal, Richard Johns, Kendall Johnson, Vivi Isabella La Font, Emma Leibowitz, Sophia Wang
Wardrobe Leads
Annabelle Rehn, Leeth Singhage