The inaugural production at the newly renovated and revamped Curran Theater, under the artistic direction of owner and longtime local theater impresario Carole Shorenstein Hays, will be the Tony Award-winning Best New Musical of 2015, Fun Home as was announced earlier this year. For the second time this year after a fun amateur production of School of Rock, the Curran partnered with Oakland's School for the Arts to produce this moving music video for one of the central songs in the show, "Ring of Keys."
As fans of the show already know, the song is a coming out story of sorts, sung by a little girl the autobiographical childhood self of graphic novelist Allison Bechdel describing the moment she recognizes her first butch lesbian in real life, and recognizes something of herself in her.
The video was made in tribute to GLAAD's Spirit Day, and directed by Ezra Hurwitz, and offers a glimpse inside the still under-construction Curran.
In the video, the song is performed by 16-year-old Barbara De Veaux-Griffith. The music is by Jeanine Tesori with book and lyrics by Lisa Kron.
In related news, the Curran just announced today that they will be producing a limited-engagement run next spring of The Encounter, the provocative one-man show from acclaimed UK theater company Complicite. It will mark the US premiere of the piece, which has already toured Europe, and the San Francisco debut of Complicite, which was founded in 1983.
Tickets for Fun Home, which opens January 25, are available here.
