Photo  Niles Scott

Fun Home, the multi-Tony award winning musical is making its Boston début at SpeakEasy and a fine show it is. Adapted from Alison Bechdel’s popular graphic chronicle of the same name, the musical whose book and lyrics were written by Lisa Kron and the music composed by Jeanine Tesori tells the story in an unusual and nonlinear way.

The character of Alison is played by three different actresses at three different stages of her life. First we meet the adult 43 year old Alison (Amy Jo Jackson) who is in the throes of writing her autobiography and recalling the events of her life that made her the person she is today. It is those events that create the story. In the opening scene Small Alison (Marissa Simeqi), a girl about eight, sings of her need for her daddy Bruce introducing a life-long frustration. Bruce (Todd Yard), a closeted gay man, spends much of his time restoring houses, particularly his own, to their initial beauty. Alison and her two younger brothers John (Luke Gold) and Christian (Cameron Levesque) are expected to help their father who is often brusque with them. Todd Yard captures Bruce’s narcissism in the song “Not Too Bad.” …

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