Alison Bechdel’s Broadway musical comes home to Burlington’s Vermont Stage

Vermont cartoonist laureate Alison Bechdel’s life inspired the Broadway musical “Fun Home,” which is set for its state premiere at Burlington’s Vermont Stage. Photo courtesy the MacArthur Foundation
Before Alison Bechdel was named Vermont cartoonist laureate and winner of a $625,000 MacArthur “genius” grant, she was in a less-than-happy place.
Specifically, her family’s hauntingly Victorian funeral home.
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