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The cast of FUN HOME made a created a video of the song 'Home's With You' for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Carols for a Cure 2015. The song was written by Joel Perez and Marrick Smith. 

Producers Fox Theatricals (Kristin Caskey, Mike Isaacson) and Barbara Whitman have just announced that Fun Home, the groundbreaking and Tony Award-winning Best Musical, has recouped its production costs on Broadway in only eight months, becoming the first new musical of the 2014-2015 Broadway season to do so. Capitalized at $5.25 million, Fun Home opened to rave reviews at the 740-seat Circle in the Square Theatre on April 19, 2015, where it broke house box office records and won five 2015 Tony Awards.

As VIOLET makes its Australian premiere, Broadway's most successful female composer talks about opening doors for women.

Throughout the holiday season, BroadwayWorld will be bringing you our exclusive photo coverage from inside the recording room. Below, go behind the scenes with the company of Fun Home as they record 'Home's with You.'

The new Small Alison does her part to help raise funds for a great cause.

Two-time Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris and singing partner Kimberly Kaye, along with their band Loose Cattle, have recorded a country version of "Pony Girl," the original song written by FUN HOME Tony Award-winners Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron for the musical. Cerveris has created his own arrangement of the song, which was cut during early workshops of Fun Home, turning the tune into a waltzing cowboy lullaby. The single, mastered for iTunes, is now available for pre-sale, and will receive an official release on November 23, 2015 at most online retailers. Cerveris and Loose Cattle will celebrate "Pony Girl" with a release party and concert at Hill Country Barbecue (1123 Broadway) on Monday, November 23 at 8:00PM.

Ring of KeysGabriella Pizzolo, who recently took over from Sydney Lucas in Broadway's FUN HOME, impressed the audience at the 2015 SAGE Awards at Gotham Hall in NYC on October 19 with her rendition of 'Ring of Keys' from the Tony-winning Best Musical. Watch her performance below!

FUN HOME, the reigning Tony winner for Best Musical, is celebrating six months on Broadway with a special behind the scenes look at the show's journey so far. Take a look inside the FUN HOME experience below!

Halloween is a two-show work day for Broadway's kids, so many are getting in the spirit all week.

On Thursday evening, The New York Women's Foundation (NYWF) held its annual Fall Gala in The Grand Ballroom of The Plaza Hotel in New York City. The evening's honorees included Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, creators of the Tony Award-winning musical, FUN HOME, and corporate honoree Citi. TODAY's Hoda Kotb served as the evening's Mistress of Ceremony. The event raised $680,000 which will help to support NYWF's more than 70 women-led, community grantee-partner organizations. Scroll down for photos from the gala!

'Sydney, It has been my pleasure to have you as my Sister and Friend in this great Adventure.'

Though movies and TV shows would have you believe that understudies aren't very nice people, FUN HOME's Gabby Pizzolo is apparently a real sweetheart.

It's sad faces all around as BroadwayWorld bids farewell to Tony Award nominee Sydney Lucas who plays her final performance in Broadway's Fun Home today, Sunday, October 4. Below, we take a look back at the pint-sized star's journey with the production!

We're sure the cast was so glad to have this time together with beloved comedy legend, Carol Burnett.

Some of the magic moments that led to the groundbreaking musical being honored with the 2015 Tony Award as the season's best.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Tony Award nominee Sydney Lucas will play her final performance in Broadway's FUN HOME on Sunday, October 4. Her understudy, Gabriella Pizzolo, will take over the role of 'Small Alison' beginning October 6, 2015.

Because every great performance deserves an encore.

Free copies of Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" to 250 college Freshmen on a first-come, first-served basis.

'(V)iewing pictures of sexual acts, regardless of the genders of the people involved, conflict with the inherent sacredness of sex.'

Today, BWW has obtained the original DUKE press release, assigning the book to incoming students as the official selection of the Duke Common Experience