Shows · Falsettos (2016 Revival)

Falsettos (2016 Revival)

Opened 2016

85 performances

Revival, Contemporary

Falsettos (2016 Broadway Cast Recording) [2 CD], William Finn, Good — eBay seller listing photograph

Marvin, a neurotic New York intellectual, leaves his wife Trina for his male lover Whizzer, upending the lives of everyone around him including his young son Jason. As Marvin struggles to hold together his unconventional extended family, the emerging AIDS crisis brings devastating consequences that force all of them to confront what truly matters.

Music: William Finn
Lyrics: William Finn
Book: William Finn & James Lapine

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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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