Shows · Falsettos · Walter Kerr Theatre, 2016
Falsettos, 2016
Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 227th longest run.
Other stagings of Falsettos 2 more
Who was in it14 named
Max von Essen as Marvin
Laura Pitt-Pulford as Trina
Nick Adams as Whizzer
Nick Blaemire as Mendel
Jonah Mussolino, Thatcher Jacobs, & Jim Kaplan as Jason
Gemma Knight-Jones as Charlotte
Audrey Cardwell as Cordelia
Creative team
- Director
- James Lapine
- Choreographer
- Spencer Liff
Recordings 2 released while this run was on
2 more exist for other runs of this show: see Falsettos for all of them.
Around this production
Falsettos is a sung-through musical with a book by William Finn and James Lapine, and music and lyrics by Finn. The musical consists of March of the Falsettos (1981) and Falsettoland (1990), the last two installments in a trio of one-act musicals that premiered off-Broadway (the first was In Trousers). The story centers on Marvin, who has left his wife to be with a male lover, Whizzer, and struggles to keep his family together. Much of the first act explores the impact his relationship with Whizzer has had on his family. The second act explores family dynamics that evolve as he and his ex-wife plan his son's bar mitzvah, which is complicated as Whizzer comes down with an early case of AIDS.…
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