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NEW YORK — The poignant and groundbreaking coming-of-age show "Fun Home" was named best musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday, one of five big trophies it won on the way to making history for its composing team.It tied for the winningest show on Broadway this season with the British import "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," which also won five awards, including best play. And Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I” has been praised for its visual beauty; among its other honors, it won best featured actress in a musical role for Ruthie Ann Miles, who is making her Broadway debut as Lady Thiang, the head wife of the King of Siam. "Fun Home," based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel about growing up with a closeted dad in a funeral home and the first musical to have a lesbian as its main character, won for best book, best lead actor in Michael Cerveris and best direction from Sam Gold.

The shows led … NEW YORK — The poignant and groundbreaking coming-of-age show "Fun Home" was named best musical at the Tony Awards on Sunday, one of … (She’s already got her next Broadway gig, the title role of a puppy in “Sylvia,” set for the fall. Yes, yes it does.”“Skylight,” also a British import, starring the film actors Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, was the first of David Hare’s many plays to win a Tony Award. The composer Jeanine Tesori and the playwright Lisa Kron, of “Fun Home,” were the first all-female team to win a Tony for best score; Ms. Kron also took home a Tony for best book. Subscribe now for more from the authority on music, entertainment, politics and pop culture.Sign up for our newsletter and go inside the world of music, culture and entertainment.Award-winning cartoonist reflects on “super bizarre surrealness” of Broadway success

Fun Home and The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time were the big winners tonight as the 69th annual Tony Awards were handed out. The awards are administered as a joint venture of the American Theater Wing and the Broadway League; 844 theater professionals, including producers, actors, writers, designers and critics, are eligible to vote, and some have a personal or financial stake in the nominated shows. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For.

A refreshingly honest musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes, is “a blazingly original heartbreaker and a nonstop treasure of invention It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father.

Its material has been mined for universal truths about love, acceptance and compassion. This groundbreaking production introduces us to Alison at three different ages, revealing memories of her uniquely dysfunctional family that connect with her in surprising new ways. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Next musical to get a Tony showcase was Gigi. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Let our news meet your inbox. The book addresses themes of sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide, emotional abuse, dysfunctional family life, and the role of literature in understanding oneself and one's family. Notable wins included "Curious Incident" with best play, "Fun Home…

Review by Mark Kennedy introduces us to Alison at three different ages, revealing memories of her uniquely dysfunctional family – her mother, brothers and volatile, brilliant, enigmatic father – that connect with her in surprising new ways.

The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.Kristin Caskey, center, is joined by cast and crew members as she accepts the award for best musical for “Fun Home” on Sunday.Kristin Caskey, center, is joined by cast and crew members as she accepts the award for best musical for “Fun Home” on Sunday.

The Tony Awards — which have become a significant marketing tool for Broadway — opened with its two hosts, Ms. Chenoweth and Alan Cumming, singing a series of jokes about theater and themselves, poking fun at actors and shows that went without Tony nominations.

The winner of five 2015 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, FUN HOME is based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic memoir. Marianne Elliott, a veteran British director, won her second Tony, for “Curious Incident.” Two of the evening’s other big victors: Sam Gold, who won for directing “Fun Home,” and Christopher Wheeldon, who lost to Mr. Gold in that category but took home a prize for choreographing “Paris.”Broadway remains a glamorous but brutal business — 75 percent of shows flop — and the Tony Awards matter because the prizes can affect the box office, the salary or the roles a performer commands, and the frequency with which a play is staged around the country. Review by Eric Sasson