§ Nice Art: The Cool Comics Art Twitter spotlighted some pages from The Nam by Michael Golden, one of the most influential comics artists of the Bronze Age and beyond. Lovely stuff and note the sophisticated coloring done on the primitive hamster wheels of the time. The GCD credits the coloring to mostly Phil Felix, […]
Fun Home wins Tony Award for Best Musical
Photo by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Fun Home, the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel won five TOny Wards on Saundya, including Best Musical, capping a road of critical triumph for the show. IN addition to Best Musical, Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron won Best Original Score, Kron won for Best Book of […]
Fun Home the musical gets 12 Tony Award nominations
The Tony Awards nominations are out today, honoring the best on Broadway, and Fun Home tied for most nominations with 12 (An American in Paris also got 12.) The musical, based on the Alison Bechdel graphic novel, was nominated for Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Director, Best Actor in a Musical (Michael Cerveris), […]
Fun Home wows Broadway
Fun Home opened on Broadway last night and the musical based on Alison Bechdel’s acclaimed graphic novel won rave reviews. The show stars Beth Malone, Emily Skeggs and Sydney Lucas (above) as Bechdel at various ages, and Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn and Oscar Williams as the rest of the Bechdel family. A sampling: […]
Fun Home is coming to Broadway in March
The Pulitzer Prize nominated musical version of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is coming to Broadway near year and the cast and crew have been announced. Michael Cerveris will be reprising his role as Bruce Bechdel, Alison’s closeted father. I was fortunate enough to be invited to a press preview event yesterday at which Bechdel, composer […]