The musical "Fun Home" made Broadway history this week when it became the first show with a lesbian as the central character to win big at the Tony Awards.

The show's composer Jeanine Tesori and writer Lisa Kron broke new ground as the first all-woman writing team to win a Tony for musical score. 

Kron took note of the moment during her acceptance speech on Sunday night when she told the crowd, "Our house is so big. Let's not just go back into the living room."

Kron also won for best book for the musical based on Alison Bechdel's illustrated memoir, a coming-of-age story of a small-town lesbian girl and her eccentric family.

In an exclusive interview with WNYC, Kron said the show was fortunate to arrive when it did.

"Fun Home has come to Broadway when there's been this sort of accretion of images of LGBT people that's been built over decades by artists and activists," she told WNYC's Julianne Welby. "Audiences...a few years ago wouldn't have...felt that they could identify or connect with these characters."

She said she's hopeful the shows success will nudge producers to give up-and-coming women playwrights and composers a chance to succeed.

"Every show is a risk," said Kron. "But these shows are as worthy a risk as anything else."