{"id":153549,"date":"2019-11-12T14:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T19:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=153549"},"modified":"2019-11-14T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:53:27","slug":"actors-split-role-in-umw-musical-fun-home-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2019\/11\/12\/actors-split-role-in-umw-musical-fun-home-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Actors Split Role in UMW Musical \u2018Fun Home\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_153501\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153501\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-153501\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/FunHome-18-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"In UMW Theatre\u2019s production of Tony Award-winning musical \u2018Fun Home,\u2019 three actors \u2013 Madison Neilson, Olivia Whicheloe and Lydia Hundley \u2013 portray graphic novelist Alison Bechdel at various stages of her life. Photo by Geoff Greene.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/FunHome-18-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/FunHome-18-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/FunHome-18-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-153501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In UMW Theatre\u2019s production of Tony Award-winning musical \u2018Fun Home,\u2019 three actors \u2013 Madison Neilson, Olivia Whicheloe and Lydia Hundley \u2013 portray graphic novelist Alison Bechdel at various stages of her life. Photo by Geoff Greene.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A pivotal scene in UMW Theatre\u2019s current musical features the protagonist recalling a drive she took with her late father. Struggling to find the words, they sing a heartbreaking duet about their failure to have an open and honest conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lived that exact moment, looking out the car window because I didn\u2019t know what to say to my dad,\u201d said senior Lydia Hundley, who plays the college-aged Alison Bechdel, who later became a successful graphic novelist, in\u00a0<em>Fun Home<\/em>. Hundley credits Bechdel\u2019s critically acclaimed memoir and the musical it inspired for teaching her how to communicate with her own parents.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s one of three actors who will portray Bechdel at various stages of her life. Junior Madison Neilson plays her at age 10, and senior Olivia Whicheloe portrays her as an adult. The show, which continues UMW\u2019s 2019-20 theatre season, runs Nov. 14 to 16 and Nov. 21 to 23 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 17 and 24 at 2 p.m. in duPont Hall\u2019s Klein Theatre. Tickets cost $25 for general admission, and $20 for students, senior citizens, alumni and military. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/06\/actors-split-role-in-umw-musical-fun-home\/\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pivotal scene in UMW Theatre\u2019s current musical features the protagonist recalling a drive she took with her late father. Struggling to find the words, they sing a heartbreaking duet about their failure to have an open and honest conversation. \u201cI\u2019ve lived that exact moment, looking out the car window because I didn\u2019t know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28590,"featured_media":153501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[322,3191,9303,20753],"class_list":{"0":"post-153549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-whats-new-umw","8":"tag-department-of-theatre-and-dance","9":"tag-gstull","10":"tag-jreynol2","11":"tag-umw-theatre","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}