![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The show plays out in nonlinear fashion at 100 minutes, switching between three versions of Alisons at different ages: the nine-year old Small Alison, the 19-year-old Medium Alison starting out in Oberlin College (Maggie McKenna), and as a 43-year-old cartoonist (Lucy Maunder). But it’s an image quickly shattered thanks to Bruce’s quick temper, the family’s lives revolving around his charming yet erratic personality. It’s an image of a picture-perfect family trying to hold it together, inside an old house restored to 19th century perfectionism. In one of the first musical numbers, Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue, the family – consisting of Small Alison (played by Karelina Clarke, a role also shared with Katerina Kotsopoulos and Mia Honeysett), her siblings, Christian and John (shared by six actors), alongside mother Helen (Marina Prior) and father, Bruce (Adam Murphy) – sing: “Everything is balanced and serene / Like chaos never happens if it’s never seen.” The scene is set in the family home in small-town Pennsylvania, where Alison spent her childhood but also where her parents ran the family business, the Bechdel Funeral Home. Maggie McKenna, Lucy Maunder and Marina Prior in Fun Home. ![]()
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