Northwestern alum joins tour

Tony-winning musical with Miss America winner comes to Chicago this November

A national tour of “Fun Home,” the 2015 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, comes to Chicago for a run at the Oriental Theatre from Wednesday, Nov. 2, through Sunday, Nov. 13. Pictured here are original Broadway cast members Sydney Lucas as Young Alison and Michael Cerveris playing her father, Bruce Bechdel. (Courtesy of Joan Marcus)

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A national tour of the Broadway musical “Fun Home” — which hits Chicago Nov. 2 — will be led by some theater veterans and a former beauty queen.

Kate Shindle, the president of the Actors’ Equity Association, a Northwestern University alum and 1998 Miss America winner, will play the grown-up Allison, alongside Robert Petkoff as Bruce and Susan Moniz as Helen. Moniz is a veteran of the Chicago and suburban theater scene after having appeared in a number of productions at Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire and Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace.

The tour kicks off in Cleveland in October and then stops in Durham, North Carolina; Chicago; St. Louis; and Detroit before ending the year in Minneapolis.

The 2015 Tony-winning show is based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel memoir about growing up with a closeted dad in the family’s funeral home business.