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Falsettos (Theatre)
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Falsettos is a musical with music by William Finn and book by Finn and James Lapine. The show is an amalgamation of the latter two musicals in Finn's "Marvin Trilogy": March of the Falsettos (which was first performed off-Broadway in 1981) and Falsettoland (first performed in 1990). The two plays are preceded by In Trousers, which is not included in Falsettos. The show opened on Broadway in 1992, starring Michael Rupert as Marvin, Barbara Walsh as Trina and Stephen Bogardus as Whizzer. It closed in 1993 after 587 performances. In the Fall of 2016, Falsettos was revived for a limited run through January 2017 starring Christian Borle as Marvin, Stephanie J. Block as Trina and Andrew Rannells as Whizzer.March of the Falsettos centers on Marvin, a neurotic gay Jewish man in 1979 New York. He has recently divorced his wife, Trina, and left his child, Jason, to be with his lover, Whizzer, an attractive younger man. Trina starts seeking treatment from Marvin's psychiatrist, Mendel, and the two eventually fall for each other. Marvin expects both Trina and Whizzer to serve his needs and be loyal to him, an attitude that leaves him alone, trying to salvage his relationship with his son.Falsettoland jumps ahead to 1981 where the characters, along with Marvin's neighbors, Charlotte, an esteemed doctor and Cordelia, a kosher caterer, come together to plan Jason's bar mitzvah, though their plans are quickly interrupted by the looming AIDS crisis. | |
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Sung-Through Musical | |
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Sung-Through Musical: Although there is some spoken dialogue, it's all brief and and vastly outnumbered by the singing in each scene. | |
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Uncertain Doom | |
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Uncertain Doom: If Marvin contracted AIDS and possibly died of it. Finn confirmed that Trina attempted suicide after the events of Falsettoland and may or may not have succeeded. | |
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Quarreling Song | |
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Quarreling Song: "Year of the Child" and "Round Tables, Square Tables" in the off-Broadway Falsettoland which became "The Fight" in Falsettos. Also "Thrill Of First Love" and "Tight-Knit Family (Reprise)". | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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Ambiguously Jewish: In the revival, Cordelia's title was changed from "kosher caterer" to "Shiksa caterer"note Changed back in the tour cast. . Although the term Shiksa can simply refer to any non-Jewish woman, in accordance with the above trope, it has generally come to be used to refer to a Gentile woman who marries a Jewish man, with the implication that she is trying to tempt him away from his faith. Her partner, Dr. Charlotte, is never explicitly referred to as Jewish in the text, but this change seems to imply that she is intended to be. | |
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Shotgun Wedding | |
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Shotgun Wedding: implied about Trina and Marvin's marriage in "I Never Wanted to Love You" | |
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Tragic AIDS Story | |
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Tragic AIDS Story: Act 2 becomes this, with Whizzer succumbing to AIDS by the end of the show. Notably, the disease is never called as such due to the 1981 setting, but is generally understood to be this. By extension, Marvin is implied to have contracted HIV from Whizzer, and may have died not long after the end of the show. | |
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Jews Love to Argue | |
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Jews Love to Argue: Most of Marvin's interactions in the first act and the first half of the second act are spent arguing. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: That Marvin and/or Whizzer would contract HIV, and likely die of some AIDS-related illness. The second act does take place in 1981 after all. | |
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AmicablyDivorced | |
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Amicably Divorced: Marvin and Trina are mostly able to get along fine despite being divorced. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Whizzer to Jason. Initially, Jason purposefully annoys his parents by going to Whizzer for advice rather than listening to his biological parents. By the end, it's clear that both love each other as if they were family. | |
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The Patriarch | |
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The Patriarch: This is how Marvin sees himself, especially in Act I. The rest of the characters don't always regard him in the same way. | |
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Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number | |
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Massive Multiplayer Ensemble Number: "Year of the Child". "The Baseball Game". | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although Act I has Marvin veering well into Jerkass territory, by the end he proves to be a good friend and person at heart. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: "The Rape of Miss Goldberg". | |
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BSoD Song | |
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BSoD Song: "Marvin Hits Trina". | |
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Irrelevant Act Opener | |
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Irrelevant Act Opener: The Act I opener "Four Jews in a Room Bitching" is just a retelling of the story of Moses and doesn’t really contribute anything to the plot apart from introducing the characters. | |
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Parental Love Song | |
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Parental Love Song: "Father to Son" | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect | |
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Florence Nightingale Effect: Dr. Mendel falls for Trina when she comes in as his patient. Trina is also pretty taken with him. It only gets stronger when he starts making house calls for Jason. | |
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Parent with New Paramour | |
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Parent with New Paramour: Jason has good relationships with both of his parents' significant others: While angry at his father for leaving the family to be with Whizzer, Jason adores Whizzer himself, much to his parents' dismay. He even rearranges his Bar Mitzvah to be at the hospital so that Whizzer can attend, because Whizzer is family. Mendel starts out as Jason's not-so-helpful therapist, who Jason is quite skeptical of. But Jason later encourages Mendel to act on his feelings for his mother, to make both of them happy. | |
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Self-Soothing Song | |
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Self-Soothing Song: In "A Day in Falsettoland", Mendel assures himself at least he has Trina while dealing with annoying patients. Trina, stressed about her son's bar mitzvah and Marvin getting back together with Whizzer, is assured by Mendel that, "Everything will be all right", which she then repeats to herself throughout the song. In "Holding to the Ground", Trina tries to keep her head up while she struggles with the shifting notions of what she expected her life to be and the hospitalization of her ex-husband's boyfriend from AIDS. This includes a Dark Reprise of the "Everything will be all right" lyrics from "A Day in Falsettoland". | |
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Jewish Complaining | |
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Jewish Complaining: The opening song, "Four Jews in a Room Bitching," is all about four Jews complaining about their less than ideal state. | |
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Coming-Out Story | |
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Coming-Out Story: Notably averted - all of the gay characters seem to be out. | |
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Opposites Attract | |
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Opposites Attract: Marvin and Whizzer admit that the only thing they have in common is a love for arguing. | |
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Jewish Mother | |
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Jewish Mother: Trina | |
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"They've Come So Far" Song: Pretty much any song with Marvin and Whizzer after they get back together, but special mention goes to "What More Can I Say?" and "Racquetball". | |
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All Jews Are Ashkenazi | |
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All Jews Are Ashkenazi: Though not written explicitly, all of the characters are coded as Ashkenazi. The revival gave Mendel the last name "Weisenbachfeld." All of the foods which Cordelia cooks are Ashkenazi. In the Act II opener, "Falsettoland", the group are described as "Yiddish-Americans", which more or less confirms that they're Ashkenazi. | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "A Tight-Knit Family" | |
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Straight Gay | |
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Straight Gay / The Whitest Black Guy: Marvin is committed to presenting himself as masculine. In his relationship with Whizzer, he must be the breadwinner while Whizzer and Trina cook for him, he refers to Whizzer's interest in fashion as "dreck," and his competitive streak leads to him dumping Whizzer after the latter wins at chess. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: In Trousers, the first part of the "Marvin Trilogy" which didn't make it into Falsettos, introduced several characters from Marvin's past, as well as alluding to Marvin and Trina's second child and a pet parakeet, none of whom are ever heard from again. | |
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Like Father, Unlike Son | |
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Like Father, Unlike Son: In "My Father's a Homo," Jason, at age 10, worries that he, like his father, will also turn out to be gay. At age 12, Jason sings "Miracle of Judaism" which proves that in this regard, he is nothing like his father. | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: Only five, later seven, characters appear in the show. No background characters are shown. | |
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13th Birthday Milestone | |
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13th Birthday Milestone: Discussed and Zig-Zagged. The second act note originally its own one-act play, Falsettoland centers around preparation for Jason's Bar Mitzvah. Initially, the adults in his life consider it a bigger deal than he does — Jason himself sees it as "a celebration where I get presents", more fixated on which girls from his class to invite than the meaning of being a man. At one point he threatens to cancel it just so his divorced parents will stop fighting about it. However, when Whizzer's AIDS symptoms make him bedridden, Jason is forced to make a mature decision over whether or not to cancel, and decides to hold the Bar Mitzvah in the hospital room, giving up the girls and the big party so he can be with the people who matter most to him. Whizzer dies soon after, marking an end of innocence for Jason. | |
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First Law of Tragicomedies | |
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First Law of Tragicomedies: The first act packs in lots of humor, but when it ends and Whizzer collapses in the middle of a tennis match due to AIDS, the second act turns darker. | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
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Coming of Age Story: Jason's story sees him try to grow into his own man after worrying he'll become like his dad. | |
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Jewish and Nerdy | |
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Jewish and Nerdy: Jason would rather stay home and play chess than socialize. Later, the company bemoans that his all-Jewish baseball team is better at "reading Latin" than actually playing baseball. | |
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Dysfunctional Family | |
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Dysfunctional Family: Marvin, Trina and Jason are almost never shown interacting healthily as a family. They even describe themselves as "tragic" and "a mess". | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: Marvin, Trina, Jason, Mendel, Cordelia, Charlotte, and…Whizzer. | |
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Queer Romance | |
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Queer Romance: Marvin/Whizzer and Charlotte/Cordelia. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Marvin and Trina have two children in In Trousers, but only Jason appears in March. What happened to the second child in the years between the two musicals is unexplained. | |
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Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity | |
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Awkward Father-Son Bonding Activity: Marvin describes a few in his attempts to connect to Jason in the third part of "Marvin at the Psychiatrist (A Three-Part Mini Opera)." | |
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Cast Full of Gay | |
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Cast Full of Gay: Four out of the seven characters are gay. | |
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| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_d4a96a6 | type |
Set Switch Song | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_d4a96a6 | comment |
Set Switch Song: "Holding to the Ground" as the set is changed to Whizzer's hospital room. Also serves as The Eleven O'Clock Number. To a lesser extent, "Miracle of Judaism" covers the change from Marvin's house to the stands for "The Baseball Game." | |
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Character Narrator | |
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Character Narrator: Whizzer states the titles of some of the songs before they begin. | |
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Real Men Hate Affection | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_dc1b3fb6 | comment |
Real Men Hate Affection: This was mostly played straight with Marvin and Whizzer in the original production, but is averted in the revival. | |
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Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_dfb77c08 | comment |
Obliquely Obfuscated Occupation: What Marvin’s job was was originally not stated. Subverted in the revival - it was decided by the cast that he's an advertising agent. | |
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No Antagonist | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_e0aed924 | comment |
No Antagonist: While Marvin is around terrible enough to be logically seen as the bad guy in Act I (as well as the original March of the Falsettos), the second half of the play focuses entirely on the oncoming of Jason's bar mitzvah, which is complicated by Whizzer's case of AIDS. | |
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Final Love Duet | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_e25ae563 | comment |
Final Love Duet: "What Would I Do" | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_ee9bf817 | comment |
Sanity Slippage Song: "I'm Breaking Down," which also happens to be the Show Stopper. | |
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| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b | type |
Dark Reprise | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_f3fd818b | comment |
In "Holding to the Ground", Trina tries to keep her head up while she struggles with the shifting notions of what she expected her life to be and the hospitalization of her ex-husband's boyfriend from AIDS. This includes a Dark Reprise of the "Everything will be all right" lyrics from "A Day in Falsettoland". | |
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| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: In the revival, one is made of Cordelia being the only non-Jewish character in the show. Special attention is paid to her inability to pronounce 'gefilte fish' despite being a caterer specializing in Jewish cuisine. | |
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All Gays are Promiscuous | |
| Falsettos (Theatre) / int_fed441ad | comment |
All Gays are Promiscuous: Whizzer. Somewhat averted with Marvin. In Trousers informs us that Whizzer was the first man he ever slept with. It's even implied in Act II that he doesn't sleep with anyone else during the two years they are apart. | |
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The Song Before the Storm | |
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The Song Before the Storm: Either "What More Can I Say?" or "Something Bad Is Happening", depending on where you draw the line. | |
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