"Your short hair and your dungarees, and your lace up boots..."From: NewNowNext
Fun Home, the 2015 Tony winner for Best Musical celebrated Pride by turning one of the show’s standout numbers, “Ring of Keys” into a compilation video of fans singing the beloved song:
Thanks for sharing your voices. We’re proud to share this song of acceptance! #NYCPride #MyRingOfKeyshttps://t.co/LcjHssMvcw— Fun Home (@funhomemusical) June 24, 2016
The Broadway musical-based on the graphic novel memoir by Alison Bechdel-won five Tonys last year, including Best Musical, but after a year and a half on The Great White Way, the show will close in September.
quietly changing Broadway 95 more times pic.twitter.com/ohkZs04Lou— Michael Cerveris (@cerveris) June 22, 2016
Fun Home is ending its Broadway run, but don’t fret if you didnt’ get a chance to see it, a national tour starts this fall in Cleveland, Ohio.
#FunHome at the newly declared National Historic Landmark, The Stonewall Inn. (📷: Eric McNatt/@Playbill) pic.twitter.com/Y5agBcwwXz— Fun Home (@funhomemusical) June 25, 2016
According to The New York Times, it was the first show with “an all-female writing team to win the Best Musical Tony, and the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist.”
Watch the Tony Awards performance of “Ring of Keys” to compare to the fan version above:
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